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WordPress Unit Web Coordinators

This agenda provides updates on recent site launches, theme enhancements, post migration tasks, Ektron decommission roadmap, and upcoming developments in Q3. Stay informed about training opportunities and important notes. Join the Q&A session for any queries.

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WordPress Unit Web Coordinators

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  1. WordPress Unit Web Coordinators Monthly Summit – January 2019

  2. Agenda • Recent site launches • Theme enhancements • Post Migration • Ektron decommission roadmap • What’s coming in Q3 • Other Notes • Q&A

  3. Recent site launches 5 sites were launched since the last meeting, bringing the total to 275 live sites in WordPress! • Due to the holiday we did not launch any sites or implement theme changes during the winter break • Full list of live sites is available on the Web website: https://nau.edu/web/site-migration-scorecard/ • If you or your site stewards have not been contacted by the web team on a remaining Ektron site, please let us know

  4. Theme enhancements • One Enterprise theme and one Marketing theme release in December: • Contained Table, Catalog, and Directory fixes and styling changes • In.nau.edu “homepage” design review is next week • Directory enhancements are in initial development stages • Theme feedback can be provided at: https://nau.edu/web/theme-design-feedback-form/ • Refinements to search for internal and external sites are being evaluated • If sites are not readily appearing we can manually promote searchesvia a ServiceNow request

  5. Post Migration • Please ensure all site stewards and editors are trained to current standards • The training schedule at https://nau.edu/web/training/is the source for upcoming workshops and new training opportunities. • The days and times for each session vary from week to week • Online self-guided trainings available: https://nau.edu/its/learn/wordpress-editor • Site stewards and owners continue to review and revise their mass migrated pages • This includes content updates, page consolidation, and remediation of old images and documents from Ektron sites • Rollout of SiteImprove access will continue as we begin the new calendar year and will remain a valuable tool as the NAU WordPress user community updates and maintains the various sites that are now live

  6. Ektron decommission roadmap • With the final mass migration sites going live, the Ektron platform will have a phase out period prior to being decommissioned • Working plan and timeline: • Unused Dev and Test environments were removed in late December • Traffic will be audited to help identify missed content/redirects • Access to Ektron production environment blocked by end of February • Based on feedback proceed with final archive and decommission of Ektron by end of March

  7. What’s coming in Q3 Quarter 3 (January 1 – March 31) high level deliverables include: • Academic workflow rollout with University Marketing • Rollout of Enterprise+ plugins to all Site Editors • Directory enhancements and further integration with Faculty 180 • Post enhancements and establishing toolset for syndication • Search results, site index, and directory page reskin • Site levels moves for internal/external content split • Initial review of new WordPress platform • Ektron environment archive and decommission

  8. Other Notes • For those in colleges, please ensure that your Site Stewards and Owners relay any changes or service requests through the assigned University Marketing PM. • Academic workflow is being tested by University Marketing prior to initial implementation • Sign up for Outage Alerts at https://nau.service-now.com/sp?id=services_status • No Planned Outages are scheduled for the month of January • Let us know of any feedback on the In.nau.edu FAQ at https://nau.edu/web/in-nau-edu-faq/

  9. Thank you for the continued support and involvement to deliver a high-quality OneNAU website! • Questions?

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