CUNY Academic Commons

Boone, can I create a standalone page using my Commons admin account and just adding a new Page in the Wordpress dashboard? Is it best for me to choose a certain template, copy an existing page, etc?

Yes, I think you can just create a new page. I don't think there's a specific template to use.

- In the footer near Privacy and Terms of Service (can I update this, or is it better for Dev to?)

It appears that these menu items are hardcoded, so I'll need to update them. https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/blob/abeb832bbafb6b8ef88c5da9aac3355ebfe3d323/wp-content/mu-plugins/assets/sitewide-footer.php#L29 Let me know once you have a URL, and a specific location among those other items.

Thanks, Boone. I've created a draft of the standalone page here:

https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/accessibility/

I included a final section with links to the help site as per a separate conversation with Matt and Scott. I may update that more. There is also an image I thought might be nice to break and liven up the page, but I might need some help formatting it better if we all like it.

Hi all -- I wanted to give this a nudge, as I was just in a meeting where I shared it. Can we put this into the footer? are there any outstanding issues we need to address?

Hi Matt, we discussed holding off on this until we could update the content with more technical details on the upgrades Boone has been working on. I know he's been sidetracked on this due to the release work and other things popping up. Boone, can you give us a realistic timeline on that project so we can determine if it makes sense to release the footer etc. updates as they are now vs. holding off to release later?

Don't hold off for me. We can add my changes later on.

Ok Boone, thanks. Matt and others, if this link still looks good (at least text-wise; I have to tweak the imagery) then I can pass it along to the dev team to make live when it next works for them.

Here's the link: https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/accessibility/

Thanks, and yes, please. I'd love to get this up on the site ASAP

Thanks, all. Can you please confirm the final places where I should be adding links?

For now:

- In the footer near Privacy and Terms of Service
- In the blade on the About page above Project Staff that links to Privacy Policy et al

That sounds good to me, too. FYI on the image I have on that page, I can't seem to get the usual Wordpress image formatting to work. If I align it right, the text doesn't start until after the image, the centering seems off, that sort of thing. Maybe because this is a page we don't have usual image CSS being applied, or similar? Otherwise, the page content is good to go.

https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/accessibility/

Thanks, all. I've added the link in the footer https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/700fafff72010a3fe7e36b719f6220482abd59e7. I've also added it to the About blade, which required some minor CSS changes to look right https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/858597168586226b8f172fa30014653f47d23661, https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/215a6d1151e8135923d0a0614ec39402872f08ba These are deployed to the production site.

That sounds good to me, too. FYI on the image I have on that page, I can't seem to get the usual Wordpress image formatting to work. If I align it right, the text doesn't start until after the image, the centering seems off, that sort of thing. Maybe because this is a page we don't have usual image CSS being applied, or similar? Otherwise, the page content is good to go.

Strange, I guess that means that WordPress is not loading its styles for the Image block on this page? Jeremy, do you know off the top of your head how to force WP to do this?

https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/215a6d1151e8135923d0a0614ec39402872f08ba

Boone, we should be careful about using nested CSS syntax since it was only recently made available -- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Nesting_selector#browser_compatibility -- so older browsers might not display this properly.

Strange, I guess that means that WordPress is not loading its styles for the Image block on this page? Jeremy, do you know off the top of your head how to force WP to do this?

This is my fault. I dequeued the WP block library CSS to save on a network request back in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/bef1e82902afa3092a57a7b879b37c26f6ac2245. I've updated the code to only dequeue the block library CSS file for the front page and on BuddyPress pages in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/fccfa1ac7a7a28f165477ddbd686e7f7d1d1c309 . This is live on production. I've also adjusted the main image on the Accessibility page to align center instead of right. Feel free to make further edits in the block editor.

D'oh. I'm so used to writing Sass that I didn't think about it. Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/a62fdaaf55fbfe45da652a36c854a08428756143

Thanks Ray, I was able to format the image better now. I also noticed that the footer URL is broken because it's /acessibility instead of /accessibility if you could update. About page link looks ok.

I also noticed that the footer URL is broken because it's /acessibility instead of /accessibility if you could update.

Nice catch, Colin! I've just updated the Accessibility link in the footer to use the correct URL in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/09c826426e831bc1cd5158941f41742a276c4974 . This is live on production.

Great to see this up. Thanks so much, all!