CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2022-09-14T15:22:02ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #16795 (New): Updating default themes on new sites and templateshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/167952022-09-14T15:22:02ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>On several of the dev/community calls we have discussed updating the default theme on new sites and the templates offered during the creation flow.</p>
<p>Current template sites are below. For Academic, Conference, and Teaching sites, I believe these sites (below) are cloned when a user chooses one of these templates. Is that correct? If so, if I change the theme here, will this update the default theme for any new sites that select the template?</p>
<p>Any new site default theme is Twenty Twenty <a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwenty/">https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwenty/</a></p>
<p>Academic Template: <a class="external" href="https://academic-portfolio-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://academic-portfolio-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>Conference Template: <a class="external" href="https://conftemplate.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://conftemplate.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>Teaching Template: <a class="external" href="https://teaching-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://teaching-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>Looking at the templates again, I don't know if we actually need to update the themes for the Academic or Conference templates. Thoughts?</p>
<p>I think new sites and teaching templates would benefit from a new default themes.</p>
<p>Perhaps we make the new default Twenty Twenty Two to be consistent with Wordpress? 2022 theme is more appealing than 2020. <a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentytwo/">https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentytwo/</a></p>
<p>For the teaching template - Colin - are there any themes that have been really popular for BK faculty teaching courses? In my experience a lot of people like the Radiate theme, but we may want something new since a lot of other sites are already using this theme. I will also start a new ticket with suggestions for a few new themes to add to the network.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #16177 (New): Switch to Inbound mode for RBEhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/161772022-05-30T20:32:45ZRaymond Hoh
<p>For the reply-by-email plugin, we use IMAP mode, which relies on connecting to a GMail account to check for new replies and posting items to the Commons.</p>
<p>This isn't the best for performance because IMAP mode uses a long-running process to do the new email checks. RBE also has another mode called Inbound mode, which works on a per-email basis. This mode is already being used to create new forum topics with a custom, group email address (<code>GROUP@groups.commons.gc.cuny.edu</code>), but we haven't fully switched over to using Inbound for replies and private messages because IMAP was already in use.</p>
<p>Some things-to-do before switching:</p>
<p>1. Since we already have set up the <code>GROUP@groups.commons.gc.cuny.edu</code> email address for new forum topics, would it be okay to keep using this email domain for replies as well? (Regular reply email addresses would look something like <code>fb2da051ba2b7220193cca6ada@groups.commons.gc.cuny.edu</code>). The alternative is to set up another email address domain like <code>X@reply.commons.gc.cuny.edu</code>, but RBE hasn't been tested with two different email domains yet. Some background info here: <a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/2880#note-24">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/2880#note-24</a>. I'd say for now, we should keep using the same email domain unless anyone has any objections.</p>
<p>2. Once we switch to Inbound mode exclusively, replying to older items with the <code>cunyacademiccommons+IDENTIFIER@gmail.com</code> GMail address would no longer work. I was thinking we can set up an auto-replier in GMail, so if a new email matches the body of the RBE format, an auto-reply with the following message could be sent:</p>
<pre>
Hi,
You attempted to reply to our older reply-by-email address that is no longer in service. We have transitioned to a new email address.
If you would like to try emailing your reply with the new email address, please copy the IDENTIFIER portion of the "To" email address in the format of:
cunyacademiccommons+IDENTIFIER@gmail.com
to:
IDENTIFIER@groups.commons.gc.cuny.edu
And resend your previous email using this new email address.
You can always login to the CUNY Academic Commons to view your thread and make your reply there as well.
If you have any questions, please contact us at support@cunycommons.zendesk.com.
</pre> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #14538 (Reporter Feedback): Weebly To Commonshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/145382021-06-08T16:25:06ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I met with a faculty member who runs the Lehman Lab for Social Analysis: <a class="external" href="https://www.lehmanlab.org/">https://www.lehmanlab.org/</a></p>
<p>She would like to move the Lehman Lab site onto Commons along with several of the websites for the courses the lab offers, linked below</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.lehman-guns-research.org/">https://www.lehman-guns-research.org/</a></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://nycethnography.weebly.com/">https://nycethnography.weebly.com/</a></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://foodhealthmigrationlehman.weebly.com/">https://foodhealthmigrationlehman.weebly.com/</a></p>
<p>These 4 sites are on Weebly currently but she would like to move them over to the Commons so they can be further built out and used each semester, in tandem with the courses that will now also run on the Commons.</p>
<p>I have looked online for various methods of exporting Weebly to Wordpress but the exporter that is out there (<a class="external" href="https://weeblytowp.com/">https://weeblytowp.com/</a>) does work in this case because the site are all pages, not blogs.</p>
<p>There seems to be another method for moving to WordPress that involves exporting an HTML archive of the site and then uploading HTML archive to Wordpress. However, I do not believe we have a way to upload HTML archives to the Commons (I think this is a security issue).</p>
<p>Moving these sites to the Commons will be a one time thing since, once they are on the Commons she will continue building out the sites in the CAC space.</p>
<p>Any suggestions for how we might export/import these Weebly sites onto Commmons (preferably avoiding a manual copy/paste method, if possible)?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #14483 (Reporter Feedback): Wordpress PDF Embed Stopped Working after...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/144832021-05-20T15:42:44ZPatrick DeDauw
<p>Hi Boone,</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your help on the JITP library transfer—everything went great with the issue launch, and I really appreciate how quickly you fixed the redirect hiccup.</p>
<p>We have noticed that our pdf embedder on the page below has started turning up "Failed to Fetch" errors when viewed in Chrome, though not in Safari. I tried re-uploading the pdfs and changing the links, in case it was an issue of the Media Library clone, but found it still not working. I've since tried a few variations (adding <a class="external" href="http://www. to">www. to</a> the pdf url, trying <a class="external" href="http://">http://</a>) to no avail.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/developing-a-coronavirus-covid-19-case-study-using-google-docs-in-a-master-of-public-health-student-cohort/">https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/developing-a-coronavirus-covid-19-case-study-using-google-docs-in-a-master-of-public-health-student-cohort/</a></p>
<p>For your reference, the urls in question are</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/614/files/2021/03/Appendix-A-Gonzalez-COVID19-Case-Study-Final-1.pdf">https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/614/files/2021/03/Appendix-A-Gonzalez-COVID19-Case-Study-Final-1.pdf</a><br />and<br /><a class="external" href="https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/614/files/2021/03/Appendix-B-Gonzalez-Student-Reflection-Quotes-1.pdf">https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/614/files/2021/03/Appendix-B-Gonzalez-Student-Reflection-Quotes-1.pdf</a></p>
<p>and they are set to display toward the bottom of the post (under "Appendix A" and "Appendix B").</p>
<p>All my best,</p>
<p>Patrick</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Documentation #12392 (New): Updates to Common Commons Questions on Help Pagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/123922020-02-10T21:28:23Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<p>In our last community meeting we spoke of updating the questions on the Front Page of our Help site. I made a bunch of changes/additions here: <a class="external" href="https://help.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://help.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>Marilyn - I am adding you as a watcher, since you know what are the most prevalent questions that come through ZenDesk.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #11545 (New): Twitter searches in WordPresshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/115452019-06-11T15:52:47ZGina Cherry
<p>We would like to display recent tweets from a Twitter search (e.g., #openpedagogy) in a widget on our site. Do you have any suggestions about how to do this? I've looked at the existing plugins and none of them seem to support this (they only support displaying your own tweets). I've also tried creating an rss feed of the search and using one of the rss widgets, but this has also failed for various reasons (feedburners not working or not supporting this type of feed). Is there a different approach that I've overlooked? Or is it possible to install a plugin that would support this?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #11517 (Assigned): wp-accessibility plugin should not strip 'targ...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/115172019-06-04T15:08:25ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>The default setting of wp-accessibility is to strip 'target="_blank"' from links. See <a class="issue tracker-1 status-8 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: Links not opening in new tab (Duplicate)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11512">#11512</a>, <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: open link in a new tab not working (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11002">#11002</a>.</p>
<p>In <a class="issue tracker-1 status-8 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: Links not opening in new tab (Duplicate)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11512">#11512</a>, Gina suggests that this should not be the default behavior:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Since the plugin appears to insert such a warning in the HTML, would it be possible to configure it so that it does not default to removing the target attribute from links? Removing the target attribute is likely to be confusing for other users of the Teaching template.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I personally am not a fan of target="_blank". See <a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10712#note-2">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10712#note-2</a> and follow-up conversation. Moreover, I'm not a huge fan of messing with the default settings of third-party plugins, because it complicates updates and puts us out of step with their documentation, etc. But if others feel strongly that the current behavior is potentially confusing, it's probably possible to change the default behavior, either globally or in the case of the Teaching Template only.</p>
<p>I'm assigning this to Laurie as she's been the point person for building these templates, but general feedback is welcome.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #10040 (Reporter Feedback): User doesn't see full list of themeshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/100402018-07-23T20:38:52ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>When Jessica Murray, a CAC user, goes to the dashboard of her website on the Commons, she sees only 20 or so themes, even though we have 50-odd themes available. Luke and I are meeting her and she showed us what she is seeing.</p>
<p>Luke just advised her to do a hard-refresh, and that solved the problems, but it worries me a bit that she would have to do a hard refresh to see the full list of themes available. Boone, do you have a sense of what might be going on?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #9941 (Assigned): Wiki functionalityhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/99412018-06-15T18:08:47ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>Luke and I are meeting with someone from Brooklyn College, who brought up a request for wiki or wiki-like functionality on the CAC. This is the third or fourth such request I've heard in the last week. It may very well be motivated by the closing of Wikispaces, which was used often by faculty. (and we know that's what motivated the CUNY Office of Institutional Research to use the Commons).</p>
<p>I am NOT suggesting that we re-start or re-integrate MediaWiki into the CAC. But I am curious what we can tell people who want to use the Commons but are hoping to have wiki-like functionality. Can we use this ticket to explore possible lines of advice? I know that we have one wiki plugin on the CAC, but I think it requires a wiki to be hosted elsewhere and just displays the content on a CAC blog.</p>
<p>I've added a bunch of members of the team to this ticket for comment.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #9515 (Reporter Feedback): Text to Speech plugin - "More Slowly" chec...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/95152018-04-04T14:06:23Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<p>Hi Ray - Thanks for activating. Samuel is reporting that the checkbox "More Slowly" is not slowing down the speech when he checks it. Can you take a look? Site is <a class="external" href="https://elementaryitalian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://elementaryitalian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>We had to deactivate one plugin (media element html5) to get some pages to show the change - maybe another plugin is causing troubles? The checkbox is in the footer of each page.</p>
<p>here is a link to the original request - <a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/9370">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/9370</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #8898 (Assigned): Usage data on docs and social paperhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/88982017-11-10T17:01:54ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<p>discussion during CAC meeting -- November</p>
<p>to aid our discussion about group libraries</p>
<p>Usage data on docs vs. social paper -- views, edits -- last 12 months -- avg number created by user</p> 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 #6644 (Reporter Feedback): White Screen at Login Pgehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/66442016-11-08T17:07:40ZLuke Waltzerlwaltzer@gc.cuny.edu
<p>Getting a white screen at <a class="external" href="https://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php">https://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php</a> (all browsers). Once logged into Commons in the browser, I can navigate to the Dashboard by manually navigating to <a class="external" href="https://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/">https://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/</a>, but the <a class="external" href="http://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php">http://jitpstaging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-login.php</a> stays white.</p>
<p>This issue was first reported by Amanda Licastro.</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 #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>