Redesigned University Website: Updates

Dear campus community,

The redesigned university website was successfully launched in February and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. We greatly appreciate your support throughout this transformational project.

The launch of a new website is not the end of the work, however. We will continue to make efficient adjustments and introduce new functionality and tools to better serve our editors and audiences. 

New Functionality for Newsfeeds

We’re happy to share that a new functionality has been created to better allow News stories to be crossposted to department sites. This was a request we had received from several site editors and it will allow department sites to display relevant news stories, without having to write and publish the posts themselves.

While an RSS feed is one basic solution, we wanted a better way to share content across sites, while continuing to support the new web design. Editors now have access to the Latest News block that will pull in specific posts from the University News site.

Latest News block on the Student Support page on the Centennial website:

Latest News block on the Alumni Association page:

Editors will receive more information and instructions for how to use the Latest News block.

WordPress Training

We have held five group training sessions since March with more than 160 attendees who now have access to edit their sites. Additional training sessions, along with task-specific training sessions, will be held during the fall semester.

Thank you for your continued support!

Go Trojans!

Meaghan