Web Services will be upgrading your websites database systems within the next 24 hours. Any website updates should be completed by 9:00 pm on October 8, 2018. Sites will be taken offline that evening while maintenance is performed. Website downtime is scheduled for Tuesday, October 9, 2018 from 12:00 – 1:00 am We apologize for any…
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Apollo Theme (Web Sites)
Dressing Up Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms seemed to have one design issue that made the forms, although very functional, less than optimal as far as layout was concerned. But, it turns out that Gravity Forms has built in classes that can be used to create alternate layouts. Fields can be displayed two or three in one row rather than each…
Mobile Upgrades Coming Soon
Coming Thursday, October 24, a new theme enhancement will transform your website to work seamlessly on smaller mobile devices. Almost 20% of traffic to UF Health websites comes from mobile devices, and this amount is rapidly increasing. As more of our audience moves to using the web on their handheld devices, it became a priority for…
Forms, Quizzes and Surveys
If you’ve ever had to build a web form on the Apollo template, then you are familiar with our forms plug-in, Gravity Forms. We’ve been impressed with Gravity Form’s ease-of-use and intuitive design, and it has proved to be a tremendous asset for our organization. Web Services has just introduced two new additions to the…
New Author Profile for Posts
When creating Posts you can now have the byline and image of the author added to the post.
New Features: “All Posts” Page, Recent Posts Widget “More” Links
We are pleased to announce two new features for users of the UF&Shands WordPress theme: The “All Posts” Page The “All Posts” archive landing page displays all your posts, across all categories (excluding the featured category), similar to how WordPress displays posts within a specified category. Just add “/posts” to the end of your site’s…
New Feature: Google Search, Multisite Search
Let’s face it: the default WordPress search engine is not very good. To help address this, you can now change your website’s search engine to use Google. The results will only contain links pointing to your website, but you should see many more relevant results than before. Also included is the ability to have your…
New Accessibility / Usability Feature: Automatic File Icons
When inserting a link to a file (i.e., PDF, DOC, XLS), it is a best practice to display the file extension of the file to the user (and to open it up in a new window). However, sometimes we forget to add these to our links, and end up surprising the user with extra load…
New Feature: Change Featured Content Slider or Story Stacker Speed
Not satisfied with the speed of the featured content slider on your home page? Too slow? Too fast? Now you can customize it. This feature now affects either the slider or the story stacker. Log into your website and visit Appearance / Theme Options / Featured Content There you will find a field titled ‘Slider…
Updating Existing Files in a WordPress Site
Can we update an existing document in our website without losing the links to that document? YES WE CAN! The Problem with Replacing a File A good example of the old way is to think about a document that is updated annually, like a policies document. Up until now, in order to update the document, you…