WordPress Site Requests
The BMB Chem IT team has many legacy WordPress sites currently running on our infrastructure, and has previously offered to set up new (empty) websites for all BMB and Chemistry faculty and staff.
New sites should now instead be created using Central IT’s web hosting services found here: https://www.umass.edu/it/web-hosting
Support
We only provide limited support for WordPress and typically only have the ability to address system-wide issues.
Individual site administrators are responsible for maintaining their site’s design and functionality.
Default Themes and Plugins
Plugins: Akismet Anti-Spam, Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator, MetaSlider, TablePress
Themes: Twenty Sixteen, Twenty Seventeen, Twenty Nineteen
Updates
Themes, Plugins, and the base WordPress software are not typically updated.
The BMB Chem IT team will update these when requested, but we do not have the resources to troubleshoot failures in upgrades. In the case of a failure, we will roll back to a working version.
Customized Site Updates
The BMB Chem IT team does not update themes with customized code, and any changes must be made and maintained by individual site administrators.
Site administrators are responsible for updating their customized theme and maintaining the site’s functionality with WordPress updates.