Updates

  • Two Designs Diverged in a Purple Wood

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    For the last several years, TCU sites have been shifting over to the Web Standards design system developed by the Office of Website & Social Media Management. This design system was used to build the Web Standards parent WordPress theme, as well as several child WordPress themes. We also have a flat HTML version available…


  • New Design System

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    More than a site design or even a theme, our design team is developing an updated TCU design system for our web network. But what is a design system? “A unified design system is essential to building better and faster; better because a cohesive experience is more easily understood by our users, and faster because it…


  • Phase 3

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    The last main phase of the plan is for the more internally-focused sites within the network. Student Affairs departments make up the bulk of this project phase. Keen observers will note that Phase 3 has the largest number of sites yet the fewest number of calendar months. Phase 3 projects will likely kick things off…


  • Phase 2

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    Once we have the new architecture in place and our team trained on the new content management system (CMS), we will turn our attention to our colleges, schools and institutes who have not yet undergone a redesign. Each site will go through our project management process which involves discovery, information architecture, content strategy framework, design,…


  • Phase 1

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    The redevelopment of www.tcu.edu is the focal point of the initial phase of this project. Why? This site is the virtual front door for the University’s web presence. Not all visits to a TCU site originate on this site. However, it is the anchor site for the tcu.edu domain and, as such, is regarded as…


  • Why this and why now?

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    Websites age in dog years. One of the primary reasons is the relentless march of technological progress–new cell phones, browser updates, operating system changes and shifts in the design of consumer electronics. As site owners, we need to update and adapt to keep pace. Lipstick on a Pig One very popular request is to refresh or redesign…


  • SSL settings

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    When opening a ticket to install our wildcard certificate, you must now request WPEngine’s assistance to update the settings. This is the verbiage you can send them (note the new ticket reference): Hello, Will you please install our wildcard SSL certificate into our [install name] install? For more info please refer to ticket #469244. Use SSL for…


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    InfiniteWP Client Plugin Update

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    Currently we decided to hide the InfiniteWP Client Plugin from our all our websites. I discovered that this is causing issues when an new InfiniteWP Client Plugin update comes out. The update fails on some of our websites. To fix this issue: Turn on the Client Plugin by going to the InfiniteWP panel > Settings…


  • SSL certificates update

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    When our SSL certificate is installed, you won’t be able to see the “install setting” details from the left side menu like we use to. Example below is for the [html]tcuharrisresea[/html] install: The SSL link takes you to this page: https://my.wpengine.com/installs/tcuharrisresea/ssl_certificates In order to see the SSL install settings, remove _certificates from the end of the above…


  • Permissions issues on WPEngine

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    Sometimes when we go through the migration process you might encounter this issue. If you run into issues where you or your end users cannot upload to their media folder