Plugin Extensions and Overrides

The UCF WordPress Theme provides built-in compatibility for the plugins listed below. The extensions or overrides provided by this theme are also noted.

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• Athena Shortcodes
• Automatic Sections Menus Shortcode
• UCF Academic Calendar Plugin
• UCF Alert Plugin
• UCF Charts Plugin
• UCF College Custom Taxonomy
• UCF Degree Search
• UCF Events
• UCF News
• UCF Pegasus List Shortcode
• UCF People Custom Post Type
• UCF Post List Shortcode
• UCF Section
• UCF Spotlights
• UCF Weather Shortcode

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Athena Shortcodes

• TinyMCE formatting options for the Athena Shortcodes plugin have been enabled.

Automatic Sections Menus Shortcode

• Includes a page_header_include_subnav meta field on posts, pages, and taxonomies that have custom page header options. This field, when enabled, will insert a [section-menu] shortcode immediately under the page header. This field exists to ensure the page's section menu can be placed outside of a template's outer .container, if present, and span the full width of the page.

UCF Academic Calendar Plugin

• Includes a custom "modern" layout for academic calendar items.

  

  NOTE: This layout is only currently supported against dark backgrounds.

UCF Alert Plugin

• Adds a new "Icon Layout" (faicon) for displaying university alerts, and uses that layout instead of the default when alerts are active.

  

• Updates the following plugin settings:

  • ucf_alert_include_css -> false

    Disables included plugin CSS; UCF WordPress Theme uses its own alert layout/styles

  • ucf_alert_include_js -> true

    Ensures the UCF WordPress Theme uses vanilla UCF Alert Plugin JavaScript at all times

  • ucf_alert_include_js_deps -> false

    Disables included JavaScript dependencies; the UCF WordPress Theme includes js-cookie already

• Updates the UCF Alert Plugin's script dependency list to include this theme's enqueued jQuery and script.min.js file. script.min.js includes js-cookie, which the UCF Alert Plugin requires to set a cookie when a user disables an alert.

UCF Charts Plugin

• Adds custom styling for chart legends.

  

UCF College Custom Taxonomy

• Adds custom "URL" (colleges_url) meta field for college terms, which can be utilized by child themes for linking degrees or other relevant content to an external college website.

UCF Degree Search

• Includes style overrides for typeaheads generated by the UCF Degree Search plugin.

  

UCF Events

• Modifies markup and styling for the included "classic" layout.

  

• Includes style overrides for the included "modern" and "modern, no descriptions" layouts.

  

UCF News

• Includes style overrides for the included "classic" layout.

  

• Includes style overrides for the included "modern" layout.

  

UCF Pegasus List Shortcode

• Adds the custom "featured issue" layout.

  

UCF People Custom Post Type

• Custom meta fields for people have been added.
• Includes various utility functions for use in child themes to utilize custom person meta values.

UCF Post List Shortcode

• Adds a custom "people" layout to display lists of person posts.

  

• Includes style overrides for post list search typeaheads.

  

UCF Section

• Adds meta fields for easy customization of sections.
• Updates the markup for sections to utilize custom meta values available in this theme.
• Includes a single-ucf_section.php template to allow accurate previews of unpublished sections.

UCF Spotlights

• Includes a single-ucf_spotlight.php template to allow accurate previews of unpublished sections.
• Includes minor style overrides to Square spotlights to apply text shadows on overlaid text.

UCF Weather Shortcode

• Adds minor style adjustments to weather shortcode output included within page headers.