February 2025 | Web Developer Network

Shared Governance Board update

Subdomain requests (including slight tweak to subdomain policy to try to standardize lab names)
New focuses in the new year, including more of an emphasis on content (and continued focus on accessibility)
Discussion of Temporary Transition Page audit - reminder of timelines.

Issues when adding two groups of tabs to the same page (when two tabs have the same name). In the current system, this is broken, but a fix is being worked on to programatically create the new anchors so there aren't conflicts.
How to Edit "Contact Us" or "Related Links" in footer of CMS?
- When logged-in to your site, hover your cursor over the respective block you want to edit and you'll get an edit link in the upper righthand edge of the block to change each.

https://webaudit.unl.edu/groups/unl/; all up this month!
WATCH YOUR LINKS! Sites are going live, and addresses to specific pages may change. CMS sites have a built-in page (Reports → Top 'page not found' errors) that shows a list of URLs that users are visiting that result in Not Found being shown.

Action Required! Google Analytics Update - Not just CMS sites, everyone using GA needs to do this
- Background: By default, GA adds a cookie for all of unl.edu. This results in users having a buildup of a lot of cookies when they have browsed a lot of UNL sites. This can cause errors when their browser tries to send all the cookies. Solution: Add a dimension called "cookie_domain" that is set to your site's domain, such as mysite.unl.edu/
More Information in WDN Cache article

Update 5.3.55 - deploying this week
- Added analytics event for search modal open and close
- Update footer links
Beginning work on Version 6 (tentatively deploys July 8, 2025)
- Prior to any design changes, a user experience survey will soon be offered to randomized homepage users

Features Live now

Red Band & Primary and Secondary Menu Display: Fixed issues with the red band not displaying and menu items appearing as a list.
Group Page URL Changes: Resolved an issue where saving group pages caused unintended URL changes.
General Tagging: Implemented tagging functionality on builder pages.
Warning Messages: Added commits to address warning messages appearing on sites.
Webform Editing Access: Editors have access to edit webforms.
Webform Autocomplete Element: Added an autocomplete element for webforms.
Duplicate News Items (Nebraska Today): To stop duplicate news items from appearing, you can bulk unpublish pages using the Action select dropdown field. (may add a screenshot for clarity.) Deleting is not currently allowed for imported news items. Eric has more information on this.
Site Settings Updates: You can add Visit, Apply, Give links and Affiliation links under Site Settings → Configuration → System → Basic Site Settings.