We are now on WordPress 4.7 and have also added the tablepress plugin.

Wishing you the best for 2017!

Now on 4.6. Enjoy!

We are now on 4.5.1 and all themes and plugins with updates available are on the latest release.

Cheers.

-Tim

A user reported issues with Shadowbox JS plugin showing error messages in the dashboard.  I was able to replicate the issues and researched them. The research showed that the plugin had fallen out of support with the author.

In these instances, we do not attempt to take over support for the plugins that are out of support; we remove them from the server.

If you are interested in finding a replacement for the Shadowbox JS plugin, please let us know in the comments or contact me directly.

We had a request from The Choices Program to show a byline for multiple instructors. So, we added the Co-Authors Plus plugin to the Brown Blogs network. Doing so enables some co-author functionality but it doesn’t actually go into the theme and fix the byline codes. Since The Choices Program uses the Hemingway theme, I took the following actions in said theme:

Find the files that render the author byline:

cd /navigate/to/theme
grep "post-author" -nroI .

Replace this:

<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>

With this:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'coauthors_posts_links' ) ) {
 coauthors_posts_links();
 } else {
 the_author_posts_link();
 }
 ?>

This post is partly to mention how we run this blog service but also to serve as documentation for how to handle future requests regarding co-authors. The steps will be different for each theme.

If you need co-authors, please submit a ticket to the service center.

Feb 26 update: one other thing that we will need to keep in mind (going forward) is that the customizations to the Hemingway theme are local to our instance of it and if the theme author (Anders Noren) makes an update, we would need to re-add our customizations to the updated Hemingway.