Welcome to WordPress for Departments
Departments at Lafayette is Lafayette College’s new light-weight content management system for departments and offices. It is powered by WordPress MU.
When your Department site has been tested and published and is ready for public access, complete the appropriate Web site promotion request form:
Questions about WordPress can be emailed to wordpress@lafayette.edu.
Personal, club and organization web sites are hosted by Departments’ sister installation, Sites at Lafayette, which is located at sites.lafayette.edu.
Depts Update, 12/14/2011
We’ve made a few changes improvements to the Lafayette departmental theme for WordPress. These changes were based on usability tests conducted over the last few months with faculty, staff, and students. Tags: The index page for tags no longer says “Archive”; instead it works like categories and lists the name of the tag. Author Names: The [...]
Depts Update: “Category Not Found” bug fixed
Last night’s upgrade of WordPress caused a bug in which category and tag pages do not display, and instead throw a “404 Page Not Found” error. As of 1:03 p.m. 7/27, this bug has been fixed.
Depts Update, 7/27/2011
Depts has been upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. This update includes a number of backend interface tweaks that make WordPress’ administrative interface easier to use. It also introduces the “admin bar”, which is a black bar with administrative functions that appears at the top of your site whenever you are logged in. This bar [...]
Depts Update 3/24/2011
We updated NextGen Gallery to the latest version on 3/24/2011. This fixed a problem with gallery listings being unavailable for posting via the NextGen button in your editor. If you encounter problems with your web site after the upgrade, please contact the Help Desk: Email: help@lafayette.edu Phone: 610.330.5501 Web: Submit a help request
Depts Update 2/16/2011
A number of plugins and themes were updated on 2/16/2011: Plugins Akismet Authors Blubrry PowerPress Contact Form 7 Google Analytics NextGen Gallery Themes Twenty Ten PrimePress Known Issues Google Analytics not tracking statistics There are two reasons why Google Analytics may not be tracking traffic to your site: You were recently converted to the new nextWeb [...]
Google Analytics: Fixing your Analytics Profile
Google Analytics is a plugin that allows people to track traffic to their Web site, during the Wednesday, 2/16 maintenance, we upgraded Sites to the current version of this plugin, but in the process it removed the existing Analytics profile information. Your data is fine — the Google Analytics report for your site wasn’t affected [...]
Depts Update 12/31/2010
Depts was upgraded to a new version of WordPress on 12/31/2010. This was a security release; no new features were added. If you encounter problems with your web site after the upgrade, please contact the Help Desk: Email: help@lafayette.edu Phone: 610.330.5501 Web: Submit a help request
Depts Update 12/15/2010
Depts was upgraded to a new version of WordPress on 12/15/2010. This was a maintenance release; no new features were added. We’ve also recently upgraded nextGen Gallery, which fixed an outstanding problem with the plugin failing to activate correctly on new web sites. If you encounter problems with your web site after the upgrade, please contact [...]
Depts Update 9/8/2010
Last night we fixed two outstanding issues on Depts: Theme options for Site Administrators: After the WordPress 3.0 upgrade, theme options stopped displaying for site administrators. This problem has been fixed in Mandigo. Anarchy Media Player Options: Similarly the options page for Anarchy, which used to display audio and video files inline within a site, wasn’t [...]
Depts Update 8/4/2010
We’ve upgraded a number of plugins on WordPress: Authors Contact Form 7 PowerPress More Privacy Options We also upgraded the Mandigo theme; this fixes a problem with the theme settings page not appearing. If you encounter problems with your web site after the upgrade, please contact the Help Desk: Email: help@lafayette.edu Phone: 610.330.5501 Web: Submit [...]