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New Image Gallery Demo Site
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New Evergreen WordPress Theme
By popular demand, a new Evergreen version of the default Twenty Eleven theme is now available. Changes to the theme include:
- header image is smaller 1000px x 150px
- header spacing has been compacted
- new thinline Evergreen branding at top
- Evergreen Footer
All newly created sites will get this theme as the default. If you’d like to use this theme on an existing site, look for Evergreen Twenty Eleven in Appearance > Themes.
Please let us know what you think!
Tribute to Steve Jobs: Retro MacOS Theme added
In memory of Steve Jobs and the good old days of black and white mac computing, we’ve added a new (old) theme – Retro MacOS. Enjoy!
We’re now running the latest version of WordPress
To find out more about the new features and changes to WordPress, please see:
http://wikis.evergreen.edu/computing/index.php/What_is_new_in_WordPress_3.2
If you have any questions or concerns please email us or call the Computer Center at 360-867-6231.
Problems displaying posts or category pages?
If your site cannot display individual posts or category pages you may need to refresh your permalinks. Go to Settings > Permalinks and click Save Changes.
WordPress updated to 3.0.4
We’ve applied the latest security patch to WordPress. Please contact us if you notice any problems with your site after the update.
Caching Now Active
blogs.evergreen.edu is now caching pages to improve server performance
How does it work?
- The first time a page is requested it is dynamically generated and served up, a cache file is then also created and stored. The second time the same page is requested the cached version will be served up.
- Cached pages are only served out to unauthenticated users. If you’re logged into blogs.evergreen.edu you will get the most up-to-date dynamically generated page.
- Cached files are only kept for one hour after which time they expire and must be regenerated if requested.
- This is all made possible by the WP Super Cache plugin.
Why did we do this?
- WordPress takes a heavy toll on servers as it has to dynamically create each page (php + database) each time it is requested
- Caching generates a static html page that is much faster to serve up
WordPress Upgrade
We’ve upgraded WordPress to the latest version 3.0.1. This was a major upgrade and affected many plugins and themes. If your site does not appear to be working like it used to you may need to:
- reactivate your plugins
- change themes (especially if your site is showing the white screen of nothingness)
- custom CSS missing? We can retrieve it, just ask. If you’re feeling adventurous you can also try to view it yourself at blogs.evergreen.edu/yourblog/files/themes/yourthemename_style.css
- Mandigo theme has not been updated to work under WordPress 3, we’ll re-enable this theme as soon as the theme developer has fixed the theme
It may be a bit bumpy for the next week as we work out the WordPress3 kinks but please email us if you have questions or run into something that just seems wrong.
Add Your Avatar
Avatars are now available. You can add a user avatar (that will be displayed in posts) or blog avatar that will be displayed on the front page of blogs.evergreen.edu. See the computing help docs wiki for instructions on adding your avatar.
Redesign for blogs.evergreen.edu
We’ve finally launched the new blogs.evergreen.edu redesign. A big part of this redesign was looking for ways we could make it easier for the community to discover each other’s work. The new design features:
- planet style listing of the most recent site-wide posts on the front page
- directory listing of all blogs
- new site-wide search
Coming Soon: look for a new and improved Help area for getting answers to your WordPress questions.