CUNY Academic Commons

Just to add to this, on the Site Creation page, for the Conference Template, the following is listed:

The template also comes with several plugins activated to support hosting a conference website on the Commons. Gravity forms, Google Doc Shortcode Embed, and Eventbrite plugins can help streamline registration. Jetpack offers a suite of tools, including site analytics, Twitter integration, and a “subscribe” feature which allows attendees to sign up to receive updates from the site.

So it looks like we're recommending Jetpack here not only for Twitter integration, but also for their site analytics and subscribe by email features. If we do away with Jetpack here, we would need to find replacements for these two features as well.

Oh, good call. The "subscribe" and "analytics" features are actually kinda hard to do outside of Jetpack. Few enough sites are created on the Commons with the Conference template that's it's probably not worth the effort to find alternatives. Laurie, maybe you can just confirm that the plugin in fact is not needed on the Academic Porfolio template.

Hi All,

I think it would be fine to deactivate Jetpack on both template sites (academic and conference).

I can change documentation for the conference template that alerts people to Jetpack and they can activate if they need these features (but by default jetpack would not be active on the template).

If this sounds good to you all I can deactivate.

Thanks!

Sounds good to me. Thanks, Laurie!

I went to go deactivate and Jetpack was not running on the academic portfolio template site - maybe you already deactivated.
https://academic-portfolio-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/plugins.php

I did deactivate from conf template https://conftemplate.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/plugins.php?paged=1&plugin_status=active&s

I don't think I have access to change copy on site creation page but the copy that ray shared can be edited to read:

"The template comes with several plugins activated to support hosting a conference website on the Commons including, Gravity forms and Google Doc Shortcode Embed. The Jetpack plugin can be activated to add additional tools, including site analytics and a “subscribe” feature that allows attendees to sign up to receive updates from the site.