CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2017-03-24T14:03:37ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #7828 (Assigned): Theme Assessment 2017https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/78282017-03-24T14:03:37ZMargaret Galvan
<p>I am performing an assessment of the network enabled themes on the Commons, building off previous work by Laura Kane--who started a spreadsheet on this topic in 2014--and Kelly Josephs--who made edits/additions to this spreadsheet last year, which resulted in this thread and the acquisition of some new themes: <a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/5838">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/5838</a></p>
<p>In looking at the themes on the Commons, I am comparing them against network enabled theme lists for OpenLab, Blogs@Baruch, Macaulay ePortfolio, OpenCUNY, and NYU WP (<a class="external" href="https://wp.nyu.edu/">https://wp.nyu.edu/</a>). I asked for and received a list of themes active on OpenLab and Blogs@Baruch in late January, and I gathered the remaining information for the other three installations myself since I am an active participant on these systems. Later in the process, I'll be looking to the themes lists from these platforms for suggestions for new themes, but here's a quick bit of information right now. Macaulay ePortfolio has 211 network enabled themes (includes some child themes), Blogs@Baruch has 99, the Commons has 85, OpenCUNY has 59, NYU WP has 47, and OpenLab has 14.</p>
<p>In assessing our themes, I'm going to be paying close attention to when the themes were last updated on WP.org because out-of-date themes can stop working well and won't be taking into account recent trends in theme development towards responsiveness, multiple platforms, and accessibility. As I do this, I'll also be paying attention to accessibility and making sure we have or consider acquiring a healthy set of accessible themes. I will be digging into information and contacts that Luke provided when I near this step. At the end, I'm hoping to produce a white paper with suggestions that will be useful to the Commons, but which I hope to share with the other platforms as a way of saying thanks for sharing their information.</p>
<p>I will also be making documentation on the Help site for new users about how to choose a theme, likely once the theme assessment is farther along. I am considering drafting from this post that I wrote for OpenCUNY: <a class="external" href="http://opencuny.info/2015/08/27/how-to-choose-a-theme-5-tips/">http://opencuny.info/2015/08/27/how-to-choose-a-theme-5-tips/</a> I welcome comments and suggestions about how to adapt this information for the Commons, in addition to changing the names of the theme suggestions once the assessment nears completion.</p>
<p>At this stage, I am performing a sweep through our theme list. 60 of the 85 are not actively searchable through the WordPress.org theme interface <a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/themes/">https://wordpress.org/themes/</a>. That means that either they were acquired outside of this repository or that they haven't been updated in 2 years and have been removed from being searchable. I'm working right now on determining what the situation is for each of these unsearchable themes, working in part from the spreadsheet mentioned at the beginning of this post alongside resources like this list of themes retired on WordPress.com (note sometimes these themes continue to be developed on WordPress.org, but often not): <a class="external" href="https://theme.wordpress.com/all-retired/">https://theme.wordpress.com/all-retired/</a></p>
<p>Some questions at this juncture:<br />1. What is the process for updating themes acquired outside of the WordPress.org framework? I'm thinking here of themes from places like Elegant Themes and Woo Themes.<br />2. Would there be a way to get dates for when these themes were last updated on our system? To my knowledge, this information doesn't exist within the WordPress interface--even at the network admin level--but it would be easy to acquire by, for example, looking at the dates that the folders of the theme files were last updated through an FTP interface.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #6995 (Assigned): member filter on homepage not workinghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/69952016-12-08T02:12:46ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>when I go to the homepage and try to filter users by active / newest, the list refreshes but shows the same members in the same orde</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #6671 (Assigned): "Post too often" RBE error messagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/66712016-11-11T14:55:22ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Ray,</p>
<p>I sent a reply by email to the CAC group just now. The message posted, but I also received an error message by email -- please see attached</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #6298 (Assigned): Examine data from surveyhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/62982016-10-14T16:16:40ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Maggie,</p>
<p>I'm starting this ticket as a reminder to go through the recent survey and pull out relevant user suggestions</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #6115 (Assigned): create digital signage for GC https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/61152016-10-03T16:02:16ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Scott,</p>
<p>Can you please create a new set of digital signs for the GC? Please use the templates here</p>
<p><a class="external" href="http://www.gc.cuny.edu/About-the-GC/Administrative-Services/Communications-Marketing/Resources/Digital-Signage-Templates">http://www.gc.cuny.edu/About-the-GC/Administrative-Services/Communications-Marketing/Resources/Digital-Signage-Templates</a></p>
<p>thanks,</p>
<p>Matt</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #5317 (Reporter Feedback): Notifications of New Post Didn't Come https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/53172016-03-10T21:55:40ZLuke Waltzerlwaltzer@gc.cuny.edu
<p>An editor on the TLC site just posted this post -- <a class="external" href="https://tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/10/working-with-ellesl-students-march-16th-1-3pm/">https://tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/10/working-with-ellesl-students-march-16th-1-3pm/</a> -- and no email notification came through the affiliated BP Group (she is also a member of the group), and no activity item appeared. When I (as admin) unpublished and then republished her post, the notification came and the activity was logged.</p>
<p>Doesn't seem like this is expected behavior, unless I'm missing something, so wanted to report.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Publicity #5298 (New): Survey Pop-Up Texthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/52982016-03-08T17:05:23ZSamantha Raddatz
<p>I think the pop-up asking people to take the survey should be short and sweet. How about this?</p>
<a name="Help-us-improve-the-CUNY-Academic-Commons"></a>
<h2 >Help us improve the CUNY Academic Commons...<a href="#Help-us-improve-the-CUNY-Academic-Commons" class="wiki-anchor">¶</a></h2>
<a name="Please-take-this-5-minute-survey-about-your-use-of-the-Commons-and-be-entered-to-win-a-brand-new-iPad"></a>
<h3 >Please take <a href="https://cunyacademiccommons.typeform.com/to/o3IPTa" class="external">this 5 minute survey</a> about your use of the Commons and be entered to win a <strong>brand new iPad</strong>!<a href="#Please-take-this-5-minute-survey-about-your-use-of-the-Commons-and-be-entered-to-win-a-brand-new-iPad" class="wiki-anchor">¶</a></h3>
<p>(Screenshot of the pop-up styling attached for reference)</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #4986 (Assigned): Prepare documentation for Zendesk re web widgethttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/49862015-12-07T19:35:30ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Per ticket 3660, we will have to use the Zendesk web widget starting Nov 2016. Ray told me that the team did not like that widget due to its lack of customization. Can we use this ticket to prepare a complaint/feature request that I can pass on to Zendesk? Thank you.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #4235 (Assigned): Explore user experience around comments on fo...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/42352015-06-26T20:51:10ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Per Marilyn's comments here, Sam - <a class="external" href="http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/docs/2015-budget-request-report/#comment-1837">http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/docs/2015-budget-request-report/#comment-1837</a> - can you please explore this issue in a future round of user testing? Thank you</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #4027 (Assigned): Usability review of CBOX update procedureshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/40272015-04-29T13:49:39ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Samantha, I'd like to ask you to review the CBOX update/upgrade process. I just upgraded a few installations, and I found that the process could be improved. Here are my concerns:</p>
<p>-- Are all the steps one must take to update CBOX clear to users?<br />-- After one updates the main plugin, are there other upgrade steps needed for CBOX plugins? If so, is that process clear?<br />-- Is it clear that one needs to upgrade the optional CBOX theme after upgrading the plugin manager?<br />-- how might the upgrade process be improved with better visual cues and step-by-step guidelines?</p>
<p>cc'ed: Boone, Chris, Scott, and Steve</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Documentation #3565 (New): Load Newest inconsistencieshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/35652014-10-16T17:39:49ZChris Steincstein@bmcc.cuny.edu
<p>Right now Load Newest button is only showing for mobile devices and only on the Everything filter.</p>
<p>Ideally it would always show, but if it is too difficult right now to get it working with the filters then it could just be added for non-mobile sizes.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Documentation #3524 (Assigned): Post describing all you can do when start...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/35242014-10-04T16:54:32ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Scott,</p>
<p>Can you do a news blog or codex blog or other post that draws together some of our hero slides and documentation and puts them together into a list of things one can do when building a new community / blog / group resource on the Commons? Here is a starting point:</p>
<p><strong>1. Google Analytics</strong><br />Get GA reports for your Commons blog mailed to you on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis (note: may not work with domain-mapped blogs)<br /><a class="external" href="http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/06/23/introducing-google-analytics-for-your-blog/">http://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/06/23/introducing-google-analytics-for-your-blog/</a></p>
<p><strong>2. Custom cuny.is shortlinks</strong><br />Create a custom cuny.is shortlink for your blog or group<br /><a class="external" href="http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/cuny-url-shortener/">http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/cuny-url-shortener/</a></p>
<p><strong>3. Site Newsletters</strong><br />Use Mailpoet to create attractive newsletters derived from your blog content<br /><a class="external" href="http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/12/08/create-newsletters-wp-site-mailpoet/">http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/12/08/create-newsletters-wp-site-mailpoet/</a></p>
<p><strong>4. Domain Mapping on the Commons</strong><br />Map a custom domain to your Commons blog<br /><a class="external" href="http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/domain-mapping-commons/">http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/domain-mapping-commons/</a></p>
<p><strong>5. Use the Commons as a Conference Hub</strong><br />With free websites, domain mapping, and tools to facilitate publicity, planning and registration, you can create a hub to post agendas, discuss issues, aggregate tweets, live-stream presentations, share archives, and keep the conversation going. <br /><a class="external" href="http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/03/06/got-conference-coming-host-commons/">http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/03/06/got-conference-coming-host-commons/</a></p>
<p><strong>6. Invite People to your group</strong><br /><a class="external" href="http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/02/invitations-commons-groups-group-blogs/">http://codex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/02/02/invitations-commons-groups-group-blogs/</a></p>
<p><strong>7. Twitter Page</strong><br />Discover CUNY-related tweets and twitter-users <br /><a class="external" href="http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/twitter/">http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/twitter/</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Outreach #3369 (Hold): Release reply by email to WP plugin directoryhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/33692014-08-13T14:28:57ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Hi Ray,</p>
<p>I was just taking a look at the CAC profile on wp.org and it looks to me like we haven't packaged BP RBE for release as a plugin. Is that the case? If so, would you be willing to devote some time to that this fall, perhaps after we move past Gen Chem and 1.7?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Documentation #2666 (Assigned): Update About Texthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/26662013-07-10T18:28:39ZChris Steincstein@bmcc.cuny.edu
<p>Following the conclusion of this ticket <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: Add social media icons to About page (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/2663">#2663</a> we should consider revising the text on the About page. Right now it just has the mission statement and a link to our Wikipedia entry. Neither of them is a direct way of answering on the page the question "what is the commons?"</p>
<p>The assumption is that the "what is" question is the one most people have in mind followed by questions like, "why was it made," "who makes it," "who pays for it,"how long has it been around," some of which are answered and some not.</p>
<p>If we do decide to rewrite it, there is the question of the tone of voice. Right now it is very formal with just the mission statement. Do we want to keep it formal or go for something more informal?</p>
<p>If others agree we should get into this I can take a stab at it (other volunteers welcome too).</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #636 (Assigned): Create Lynda.com-like Table of Contents for Pros...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/6362011-03-11T01:53:31ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Based on <a href="http://www.lynda.com/tutorial/71212" class="external">this model</a></p>