CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2024-03-13T14:43:08ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #19966 (Reporter Feedback): Slow Load Time on Sitehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/199662024-03-13T14:43:08ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>A user is developing a robust program website for a GC department. Right now it is on a dev domain and he plans to clone the site into the final domain soon. But first he is hoping to resolve the slow load times he is noticing on the site:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://lmistest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://lmistest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>-<br />From the User:</p>
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<p>I am just getting really slow load times, and a lot of times, images don’t load. I was worried that I had clogged the site with too many images or something...</p>
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<p>I have a lot of images currently uploaded to the site, especially a few big splash images, which I will ultimately delete, as I was just using these for drafts. However, we will be writing about 40 descriptions of projects we have worked on, and each one will have at least one (smaller) image, so I worry about the site slowing down even more?</p>
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<p>I also worry it has to do with how many changes I made to the underlying theme (I’m currently using “Raft”)? I would really like to switch the theme to just a Wordpress Twenty Twenty-Four theme, but I spent a lot of time tweaking margins and padding etc. to make things look how I wanted them, so I don’t want to start from scratch… That said, if it’s an issue with the images, maybe the theme doesn’t have much to do with it?</p>
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<p>I ran the site through a free (questionably accurate) load time checker and it did report the site was very slow. Can you all confirm slow load time and help diagnose what might be causing this?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #19591 (Reporter Feedback): sidebar problem for course sitehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/195912024-01-24T18:38:31ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.edu
<p>From a WS ticket:</p>
<p>I am currently facing an issue while attempting to edit the sidebar to display the course information on my page: <a class="external" href="https://kcccebioblitz.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://kcccebioblitz.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a>. Despite my efforts to modify the content, the sidebar editing option seems to be inaccessible, and I can’t update the preset from my Dashboard.<br />To provide further context, I have attached an image illustrating the specific area of concern. Unfortunately, I am unable to locate the sidebar editing feature within the editing interface.<br />I would greatly appreciate your assistance in resolving this matter. If there are specific steps or tools, I need to use to access the sidebar editing options, kindly guide me through the process.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #18521 (Reporter Feedback): Migrating English Site to CUNY Commonshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/185212023-07-31T14:01:44ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>A message from a new user about migrating a site to the Commons:</p>
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<p>"I've read your documentation on importing a wordpress site via XML, but given the large volume of content (like archive blog posts with featured >images and galleries) and especially the high degree of customization to the theme and css, that option doesn't seem very promising.</p>
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<p>The current department site is here:<br /><a class="external" href="https://english.ccny.cuny.edu/">https://english.ccny.cuny.edu/</a></p>
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<p>Are there any backup or migration plugins that can run on CUNY Commons?"</p>
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<p>Are we able to upload a custom theme they may be using to help with the re-build?</p>
<p>Is there a reason that XML export/import might not work here? Is there an alternative, or should I suggest the XML process only?</p>
<p>I found a few possible back up plugins - do any of these look reasonable for use on the Commons?</p>
<p>Updraft: <a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/</a><br />Backup Migration: <a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/backup-backup/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/backup-backup/</a><br />All in one Migration:https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #17950 (Reporter Feedback): No longer receiving email notifications a...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/179502023-03-31T17:48:24ZGina Cherry
<p>The last two posts I published did not generate email notifications. When I published the post today, I no longer even saw a check box option for sending the notification to the group that usually appears near the Publish button.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://bmcccetls.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://bmcccetls.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #17697 (Reporter Feedback): plugin requesthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/176972023-02-21T17:09:54ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>A faculty member would like to have pop ups on certain pages of the site. She would like to test these two pop up plugins to see which one works better for her needs.</p>
<p>1. <a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/popup-maker/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/popup-maker/</a><br />2. <a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-terms-popup/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-terms-popup/</a></p>
<p>Can we install? Waiting on a link from the faculty member so we can active as needed on her site only.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #17258 (Reporter Feedback): Connecting Site to grouphttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/172582022-11-17T16:19:45ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>A faculty member is hoping to connect this group and site:</p>
<p>Site:https://intro2cwconroy.commons.gc.cuny.edu/<br />Group: <a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/220-introduction-to-creative-writing-745070447/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/220-introduction-to-creative-writing-745070447/</a></p>
<p>The site was previously connected to another group and she deleted the group because she was not sure how to uncouple. I think the site is still reading as connected to the deleted group because the site does not come up as visible to connect to the new group.</p>
<p>Is there a way to uncouple the site from the deleted group so it can be connected to this new group?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #16682 (Reporter Feedback): User cannot see "My sites" https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/166822022-08-29T14:51:41ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I was on a meeting this morning where the user was sharing her screen.</p>
<p>User: <a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/towallp/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/towallp/</a></p>
<p>Site: <a class="external" href="https://towallp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://towallp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>A couple issues here:</p>
<p>1. The user has no "my sites" tab on "Sites" page when logged in<br />2. Site does not come up as linked to users account<br />3. Site is not returned in search in sites directory</p>
<p>I am not sure what is going on here but I think there is a bug somewhere in the linking of the site and user.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #16335 (Reporter Feedback): Revisiting options and functions of C...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/163352022-07-06T15:17:33ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>The release of the OER tag and the Open Education institute I ran in June has highlighted some issues with the Creative Commons license widget we are running on the commons, particularly on sites.</p>
<p>By default, every page of every site site is tagged with a CC license. I think we should revisit that. People may want some of their content openly licensed but not all of it. For example, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote to the Zendesk asking how to list some of his pages on his main site as oer but not all of the pages. Currently this is not really possible - the CC license is only available on a page by page basis or it encompasses the whole site. I am proposing we allow CC for some pages and no clear open license on other pages (hence signifying they are not open).</p>
<p>I think the automatic, by default tagging of every page as CC, regardless of whether a user has chosen the CC license knowingly, is an issue.</p>
<p>This also raises questions about creating an option to allows folks to restrict some of their work. Maybe we don't want to provide a "closed" option but this could also occur through simply not applying a CC license by default to every page and allowing a user to knowingly assign the CC license to only "open" content.</p>
<p>I think all of these issues, ideas, and options warrant a discussion, which hopefully we can pick up in the fall.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #15923 (Reporter Feedback): Bellows Plugin Adjustmentshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/159232022-04-18T16:41:35ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>The folks at the GC Writing Center are working on building out a series of writing/revision resources on their website here:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://gcwritingcenter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/revision-strategies/">https://gcwritingcenter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/revision-strategies/</a></p>
<p>They are using the Bellows plugin to create the sidebar menu you see on the left of that page and other pages clicked on through the menu.</p>
<p>They were wondering if it would be possible to make some adjustments to how the plugin works. It would be ideal if the sidebar menu:</p>
<p>- highlights which page a user is on. <br /> Meaning if you are on RS argument, the background color of the sidebar menu highlights this page.</p>
<p>- show the the path the user took to arrive at each page. <br /> Meaning, at the top each page the breadcrumbs info shows the top level and lower level menu items that lead to that page. For example if I was on this page <a class="external" href="https://gcwritingcenter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/rs_ventilation/">https://gcwritingcenter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/rs_ventilation/</a> the breadcrumbs at the top would be "Home > RS Style > rs_ventilation"</p>
<p>I am not sure what our policy is on editing plugins for single use cases but these changes to Bellows seemed simple enough and potentially useful for other users.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #15176 (Reporter Feedback): Archiving Q Writing & Old Wordpress S...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/151762022-01-11T15:39:32ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi Boone, Ray, All,</p>
<p>I am meeting with librarians and staff from Queens College later this week to talk about the use of Q-Writing and the Commons on their campus. I spoke with them last semester and they had asked about some form of migration or archiving of Q writing on the Commons.</p>
<p>Some background: Q Writing is a Wordpress multi-site platform that the Queens College Center for Teaching and Learning set up years ago. As far as I can tell, it is not as consistently used or maintained as the Commons or other campus-specific Wordpress platforms throughout CUNY. The Queens college folks have asked about the "possibility of incorporating QC’s current WordPress MU site into the Commons." Qwriting currently has 8,195 sites and 22,538 users.</p>
<p>I told them migrating or archiving Q writing in the Commons was probably not possible but when I spoke to Matt briefly about it, he mentioned I should ask about HTML flattening or other possibilities. The Queens college folks had thought about setting up a CBOX to replace Q writing but I told them, and they likely already knew, that setting CBOX presented that same maintenance and sustainability issues they were already experiencing.</p>
<p>Any insight about possibilities for archiving, flattening, etc would be appreciated. Even if we can only do some of the sites (or none), that would be helpful for me to know and share with them when we meet on Thursday.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #14842 (Reporter Feedback): Question about widgets and block editorhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/148422021-10-06T14:27:02ZGina Cherry
<p>I make extensive use of the Widget Context plugin to control which widgets appear in different areas of my websites. As I understand it, this plugin does not work with the new widget block editor. How can I accomplish this type of control over widgets in the new environment?</p> 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 - Feature #11131 (Reporter Feedback): Image Annotation Pluginshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/111312019-02-20T17:23:54ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Recently, a faculty member asked about installing the PRO version the plugin 'Draw Attention' (<a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/draw-attention/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/draw-attention/</a>) for image annotation for her art history class. The free version currently on the Commons only allows annotation on one image per site and she was hoping to use it for student assignments (30-60 images per site). The plugin does not have front-end annotation but rather requires the user to create the annotations through the dashboard area of the plugin. In the dashboard, users select the clickable areas for front-end users to explore. From what I can tell in the free version, like a post, a user chooses an image, adds content (annotations) and posts the image. Tested here: <a class="external" href="https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?da_image=123">https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?da_image=123</a></p>
<p>The plugin is fairly easy to use through the dashboard interface but its unclear whether users can annotate images posted by others (but probably not, like posts)so its possible that this plugin does not allow for shared/collaborative annotation on a image.</p>
<p>Just FYI, the PRO version costs $74/year for one site and $124/year for unlimited sites, but I know the Commons tends to steer away from paid plugins. Moreover, dashboard editing and non-collaborative annotation may not be not ideal for a class setup. I think front-end annotation might work better since having users access the image through the back-end and set up annotations might be confusing for students and require admin user status as opposed to author status.</p>
<p>I'm not sure of other tools that do collaborative image annotation (other than VOCAT). One possibility is Demon Image Annotation but this plugin might work the same way as Draw Attention</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/demon-image-annotation/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/demon-image-annotation/</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #10380 (In Progress): Remove blacklisted pluginshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/103802018-09-25T14:52:36ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>I'd like to do a review over the next few releases of blacklisted plugins. These are plugins that are unavailable on Dashboard > Plugins, but may still be running on existing sites. For those that are running only on a small handful of sites, it may be worth removing the plugin from the codebase altogether. This data will take some time to collect.</p>
<p>Scott, I'm copying you in case I have questions on any of them.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #6356 (Reporter Feedback): Should Subscribe2 be deprecated?https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/63562016-10-19T14:36:44ZLuke Waltzerlwaltzer@gc.cuny.edu
<p>We might want to investigate the Subscribe 2 plugin... these users -- <a class="external" href="https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/admin.php?page=s2_tools">https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/admin.php?page=s2_tools</a> -- don't look real.</p>
<p>Don't think it causes much harm, but we might look to see if this plugin is being utilized on the Commons and deprecate if not. Could be part of a larger effort to identify best methods for facilitating notification of new posts and push users towards that solution.</p>