News & Updates

"More" links added to News and Events components

The three highlight components used to add snippets of news, events, or both — Highlight News, Highlight Events and Highlight News & Events — are updated to include the ability to add links…

Highlight Contact component fixed

If you’ve used the Highlight Contact component lately, you may have noticed some odd behavior with the images part of it (flickering, even disappearing). At long last, this issue has now been resolved.…

Link Tiles component: adding an email option

Hi. I’m Kurt from the UIC Office of Digital Communications. In the interest of transparency, I have decided to log and publish all my future enhancement, bug-related, accessibility, and other plugin & core-related…

LinkedIn site contact

The Theme Settings feature for Site Contact now has a LinkedIn page field included with the other social media page fields. This page link will appear with an icon in the site footer.

Dashboard updates

The WordPress dashboard for Red sites is updated to streamline some of the features. Unused functions, such as the generic “posts” are now hidden to avoid using that post-type rather than the News,…

Slideshow links

The slideshow component is updated to allow a link for the caption. Each image caption can have a separate link.

example of use of ignite campaign eyebrow

IGNITE campaign eyebrow

An optional eyebrow menu that would appear above the standard eyebrow and header is available for units to promote IGNITE: The Campaign for UIC. To enable this feature, go to Theme Settings, check…

Splash Page option

A new “splash” page option for special marketing campaigns is now available on Red. Once activated, the page would take the place of the original site Home Page. The splash page uses the…