In the kick-off meeting for the academic year, we discussed various topics, including the new Domain Name Policy. Most importantly, we collected your input on future topics. Please vote on them or suggest new ones. 

Presentation Slides 

*To request disability-related accommodations for the presentation, please contact webservices@princeton.edu.

It’s now possible to replicate (clone) existing content items. This can be useful in several situations, for example:

• You may have a yearly event. Rather than creating an entirely new version of the event every year, you can find last year’s event, replicate it, and make changes to the date before publishing it.

• You spent a lot of time creating a page with a highly custom layout, and you’d like to reuse most of the page for a new section of your website. Rather than starting from scratch, you can replicate the existing page and make only the changes needed.

• View the content management documentation for more details on using this new feature.
   

 

Events Importer

Events from an iCal feed can now be imported to the Event content type by using the Event Importer module. This supplements the existing method of displaying external events using the Feed Blocks module, but offers more flexibility as it allows you to display the imported events in a Calendar or Event List Block instead of the basic block that the feed blocks module supports.

WDS still recommends using the simpler Feed Blocks module for most use cases, but if you’d like to use the Event Importer, please contact WDS to have it enabled.

Event Speaker Content Type Generally Available

Site Admins can now enable the “Events: Speaker Extension” module by visiting the Configuration > Modules page. Previously, this module could only be enabled by WDS staff. This module provides the Event Speaker content type and Event Speaker List block.

View the complete release notes for all changes and fixes.

Upcoming training includes:

Web Developers Central NJ Meetup
Thursday, October 12,  7:00 p.m. | Virtual

• Join us via Central New Jersey Group 

Do you have questions about web development, something to share, or just want to come and listen? We welcome you to join us. We'll discuss recent and exciting web tech news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge.

This meetup is free and open to anyone interested in web development.

Note: This meetup will likely be hosted remotely. Check the event page details as the date gets closer.

Support

If you wish to meet with a WDS staff member over Zoom, you may sign up for a time slot during our office hours. You must specify the reason for support so that we can have the appropriate staff member present.

• Meet with a WDS staff member