Announcements – CUNY Academic Commons Development Blog

Commons 1.8.17

I’ve just released version 1.8.17 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This is a plugin/theme major update release. The release also fixes a number of bugs, including:

Fixed a bug that made it impossible to edit a Doc not associated with a group
Fixed a bug that caused the wp-post-to-pdf Settings screen to cause fatal errors in some cases
Fixed an issue that caused group announcements to be rejected when they contain too many links

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.8.17 milestone.

Commons 1.4.12

I’ve just released version 1.4.12 of the CUNY Academic Commons. 1.4.12 is a bugfix release, with the following improvements:

Minor bug fixes
Plugin Updates:
- BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
- Events Manager
- External Group Blogs
- Google Maps embed
- News announcement scroll
- Plugin Stats
- Spam Free WordPress
- Tumblr Importer

For complete details, see the 1.4.12 milestone.

Commons 1.4.11

I’ve just released version 1.4.11 of the CUNY Academic Commons. 1.4.11 is a bugfix release, with the following improvements:

Removed Ajax Edit Comments Plugin
Removed old Google Calendar plugin
Added new Google Calendar Events plugin
Plugin Updates:
- CAC Featured Content
- Category Page
- Events Manager
- Flexi Pages Widget
- WPtouch
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)
- The Events Calendar
- NextGEN Gallery
- PhotoDropper
Theme Updates:
- Infinity
- simpleX
- Oxygen

For complete details, see the 1.4.11 milestone.

Commons 1.4.10

I’ve just released version 1.4.10 of the CUNY Academic Commons. 1.4.10 is a bugfix release, with the following improvements:

Updates to the CAC Featured Content Widget
Fixed a bug where uploading a file to a group didn’t update the latest activity
Update/added themes

For complete details, see the 1.4.10 milestone.

Commons 1.4.9

I’ve just released version 1.4.9 of the CUNY Academic Commons. 1.4.9 is a bugfix release, with the following improvements:

Adjusted group invite directions to include info about maximum allowed invitations
Added Twenty Twelve Theme as the default for new blogs
Fixed an error with uploaded group files that caused escape characters to be displayed

For complete details, see the 1.4.9 milestone.

Commons 1.4.8

I’ve just released version 1.4.8 of the CUNY Academic Commons. 1.4.8 is a bugfix release, with the following improvements:

Added WP Touch plugin
Fixed and verified some issues with default email subscription level
Fixed issue with duplicate group announcement email notifications
Fixed issues surrounding potentially overlong group blog domain names

For complete details, see the 1.4.8 milestone.

The CUNY Academic Commons Announces WPMu-MediaWiki Single Sign-on

The CUNY Academic Commons, in partnership with Cast Iron Coding, is proud to announce a collection of MediaWiki extensions that will create a single sign-on system between WordPress Multi-User and MediaWiki.

With this extension, administrators of WordPress Multi-User will be able to add robust wiki functionality to their websites without forcing users to create separate accounts. Now, users will be able to sign in once to the home page of the system and have that sign-in carried over to the wiki.

We’re running this setup currently on the CUNY Academic Commons, a site that was conceived of as an open-source academic social network in which the members of the 23-campus City University of New York system would be able to connect with one another, share resources, and create new communities of interest. The site is built on the following platforms, which can now all be accessed via a single log-in: WordPress Multi-User + BuddyPress + BbPress + MediaWiki.

This integration builds on the fine work of Ciaran Gultnieks, the author of AuthWP, Daniel Kinzler, the author of LockDown, and Marcel Minke, the author RedirectAfterLogout.

We are delighted to release this extension under a GNU General Public License. Full documentation and files can be found here.

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