Design Changes (look and feel)
Slider – Made minor design changes to the slider to improve end-user experience.
Functionality Changes
Holiday Calendar Date – Added the ability to customize date format display for Languages.
Excerpts – Added ability to display hyperlinks in the automated excerpt generated for posts. If a hyperlink is added in the beginning of a blog post it will now display in the News & Events Listing Excerpt. A hyperlink can be added in the excerpt field by adding it in HTML. Please Note: Hyperlinks will not display on the home page blogroll.
Ambassador Template – Removed the unused “Name” field.
Youku – Added option to embed Youko in the slider, body of posts and shortcodes sidebar.
Accordion – Enabled the “Text” tab in Accordion content fields.
Related Posts – Added option to include Tags in Related Posts sidebar item.
Alerts – Updated the functionality of Alerts so that the English operates independently from any language alerts.
Instructions for New Functionality
Holiday Calendar Date – Create a Custom Date for Language
- Create or Edit a Holiday Page.
- In the CUSTOM EVENT DATE (LANGUAGE) field, Enter the desired date display format. NOTE: THE CUSTOM DATE ENTERED WILL OVERRIDE THE EVENT DATE LANGUAGE FIELD FORMAT.
- Click PUBLISH or UPDATE.
Youku Slider Embed
To embed a Youko video in the slider, first acquire the proper URL
- Beneath the desired video, Copy the FLASH ADDRESS.
- Replace “http://” with “https://” at the beginning of the URL. For example: http://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTg3OTE1MDU3Mg==/v.swf becomes: https://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTg3OTE1MDU3Mg==/v.swf
- Navigate to NEW SLIDE and Select YOUKU VIDEO.
- Paste URL into YOUKO VIDEO field.
- Follow standard procedure to create slide.
Youku Post/Page Body or Shortcode Embed
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- Beneath the desired video, Copy the HTML CODE URL.
- Replace “http://” with “https://” at the beginning of the URL.
- Set WIDTH to 100%.
- Set HEIGHT to 400 for Post/Page body embed and 200 for Shortcode embed.
- Follow standard procedure to create Post, Page or Shortcode.
For example:
Post/Page Body:
<embed src=”https://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTg3OTE1MDU3Mg==/v.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”100%” height=”400″ align=”middle”></embed>
Shortcode:
<embed src=”https://player.youku.com/player.php/sid/XMTg3OTE1MDU3Mg==/v.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”100%” height=”200″ align=”middle”></embed>
Include Tags in Related Posts
- Add RELATED POSTS sidebar or Navigate to the RELATED POSTS sidebar within a page.
- Check desired tags from Tags section.
- Click PUBLISH or UPDATE.