Plugins
Elementor v2.2.1
Essential Addons for Elementor v2.7.8
Nextgen Gallery v3.0.8
PDF Embedder v3.2
Wordfence v7.1.11
WP Latest Posts v4.4.2
Themes
SiteOrigins North v1.5.1
Weaver XTreme v4.06
Added Disable Admin Notices plugin
Disable Admin Notices allows site admins to disable those annoying nag messages in Dashboard. Whenever a nag pops up you will now see a red “Hide notification forever” link (like this).
Just click it, and you won’t have to deal with that one again.
Did a lot of cleaning on the blog network this week. Archived several blogs that had not been updated in at least 6 months. (If yours is missing, email me and we’ll talk about putting it back.)
Also removed a number of unused plugins and added a few that will be useful going forward.
Over the next few months I’ll also be adding more updated themes and changing out the old themes that are no longer being updated so that the blog network stays safe and secure. If your site is using one of these old themes I will contact you directly and will be happy to help you make the change.
As always, if you see anything that doesn’t seem right, feel free to let me know.
We found some issues with the older version of PHP that was running the blog network, so our sys admin has upgraded the server to PHP v7.1. That should keep us current for many years. Thanks Dave for getting that done.
WordPress v4.9.8 came out last week. More info here.
Plugins
Authorizer v2.8.3
Caldera Forms v1.7.2
List Category Posts v0.78.1
TinyMCE Advanced v4.8.0
Theme
Twenty Seventeen 1.7
Plugin Updates
Caldera Forms v1.6.1
SiteOrigin Page Builder v2.6.5
Simple Page Ordering v2.3.1
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle v1.11.8
Wordfence v7.1.3
WP Accessibility v1.6.3
WP Latest Posts v4.4.0
Theme Updates
Panoramic v1.0.47
SiteOrigin North v1.4.6
I also added a SiteOrigin CSS plugin that lets you point and click to edit the style sheet in your theme. Very simple to use. More info here.
Updates
Caldera Forms v1.6.0
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle v1.11.7
WP Accessibility v1.6.2
Theme
SiteOrigin North v1.4.5
Added Content Views v1.9.9.6
Allows for a filtered display of blog posts as a grid, or several other display options, for those who would like it.
Lots of changes to the blog network today!
Plugin Updates
Caldera Forms v1.5.9.1
Wordfence v7.0.1
XCloner v4.0.7
New theme: SiteOrigin North
The blog network was looking a little dated, so I installed a new theme by SiteOrigin called North. SiteOrigin also makes a plugin called PageBuilder that gives you a lot of control over layout of pages. Their theme is responsive, clean and very easy to manipulate. I think the blog network now has a very clean and professional look.
Wordfence also had a major update to v7.0.1 with many changes to the framework they use for display and the way they scan for issues. More info here.
Plugin Updates
Authorizer v2.7.2
SO PageBuilder v2.6.2
Widget Context v1.0.6
Added Theme
SiteOrigin North v1.4.1
Removed Unused Plugins
Akismet
Force Login
Hello Dolly
Post Content Shortcodes
Q&A FAQ
Wordpress Importer
If you would like to be updated when things happen on the blog network, you can now subscribe to an email list and receive an email whenever something is posted to the blog network.
Don’t worry, you will only receive emails when updates happen to blogs.lanecc.edu and not when updates happen to sub-blogs on the network.
If you decide you no longer want to receive notices, it’s easy to unsubscribe as well. Just use the same form you used to subscribe.
No email will be sent other than to keep you up to date on updates and changes to the blog network.
To subscribe / unsubscribe, just use the form to the right. It looks like this…
Several updates as well as a couple additions today.
Theme Update
Weaver Xtreme v3.1.7
Plugin Updates
Weaver Xtreme Theme Support v3.1.7
Plugin Additions
Google Docs Shortcode v0.4
Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer v0.12.4
With Lane’s transition to GSuite, it seems like a good idea to give the ability to embed GSuite documents in blogs. I found two that look to be well supported and stable.
Google Docs Shortcode is by CUNY, the City University of New York. They do quite a lot of open source WordPress work and they generally keep their plugins updated and secure. This plugin lets you embed most Google Docs (Docs, Sheets, Slides…) so they simply display in your post or page. If you remember <iframe>’s, it’s a lot like that. You’re basically looking at a GSuite doc through a window in your page or post.
Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer is more focused on Sheets and turns your GSuite Sheet into a datatable. Datatables automatically add sorting by click, header rows, pagination and some other niceties to a spreadsheet making it much more usable in a website.
As always, if you have any questions, let me know.
Plugins:
Auto Post Thumbnail v3.4.1
Gravity Forms v2.2
List Category Posts v.72
Nextgen Gallery v2.2.3
WP Latest Posts v3.9.6
Added Theme:
Panoramic – Panoramic is a well designed, fully responsive theme with a homepage slider that’s easy to customize and offers 5 star support. The subtle design features give it a premium feel and the wide range of flexible theme options help you create a variety of sites from a simple blog to a fully functional online eCommerce store. Used in conjunction with SiteOrigin’s drag and drop Page Builder plugin, you can easily build beautiful page layouts with no coding knowledge to create any website from travel to business to food, decor, lifestyle, sport and more. Panoramic integrates seamlessly with the following popular free plugins: SiteOrigin’s Page Builder, Contact Form 7 and WooCommerce.
