Past Website Announcements and Fixes

Past Announcements

November 3, 2025

Pantheon update

The web team is currently working on moving the A&S websites to Pantheon, a modern hosting platform built specifically for Drupal and WordPress. It offers faster performance, stronger security, and better tools for maintaining and supporting your site. This upgrade will also help our team resolve issues quickly. Over the next few months, you will be contacted about scheduling a content freeze on your website so it can be moved to the new platform.
 

October 21, 2025

Migration update

The web team is excited to announce that the main Arts & Sciences website has migrated to D10! At this time, the main Artsci website and all department websites (with the exception of John Max Wulfing) have completed their move to D10.
 

September 15, 2025

Update about the new courses tool

The new A&S Course Explorer tool, is now available! We will be adding a link to the new tool on all departmental websites that previously listed courses. The link will appear in the gold secondary navigation menu, which displays in the left column of your main menu. Current Students and Advisors can still check the Bulletin for program requirements and use Workday Student to review Academic Progress Report and register for courses.

August 18, 2025

Update about removing the Courses Landing Page

We will begin removing the existing course listings from department websites on the week of August 18th. These listings currently pull from WUCRSL and display old course numbers, so it’s important that we take them down to avoid showing outdated information. We will temporarily redirect the URL of your courses landing page to point to these instructions for finding course information in Workday. No action is required on your part at this time.

The good news is that a new course browsing tool is in development and will be ready before students begin registering for the spring semester. We’ll share more details with you in the coming weeks so you’ll know what to expect. Thank you for your patience as we make this transition. We appreciate your partnership in keeping our websites accurate and up to date.


August 1, 2025

Note about upcoming  changes to the Courses Landing Page:

With the transition of courses to Workday Student, courses and the course landing page will be removed from departmental websites in late summer 2025.  We will notify Primary Contacts with the exact date for this change as soon as we have it.  Arts & Sciences is working on a new solution that will be on the main Arts & Sciences website. The course landing page URLs on departmental websites will be redirected to point to this new page on the main Arts & Sciences website. 


June 26th, 2025

Migration update

As of June 26, 2025 all A&S supported sites with the exception of Artsci.wustl.edu and johnmaxwulfing.wustl.edu have been migrated to D10. 

Past Enhancements & Fixes

October 2025

  • To help prevent spam, anonymous users can no longer access webforms on private sites.
  • The Publication page gallery section anchor link is now working
  • Accessibility improvements have been made for icons and logos
  • Users with roles can now skip the required captcha on webforms
  • Corrected the issue that was causing 'radios' or 'select other' element options to display in large red text on webforms
  • Fixed issue that caused the Event header image not to display when shared
  • Fixed issue that caused the 'download CV' link not to always display
  • The Publication page gallery now displays the full description text and displays properly on mobile
  • The Publication page awards section no longer displays a button outline if the button URL is left blank
  • In the Events landing page featured event header slideshow, the header image now displays properly
  • A pager has been added to the media library to make it easier to find images
  • The 'all day' checkbox in Events no longer unchecks when you edit and resave the event
  • Imported events now display intro text in the Home page events section
  • Made improvements to Artsci site search


September 2025

  • On the Home page, if you have multiple videos added to the Video Spotlight and Articles section, all of the videos will now display on mobile devices.
  • Fixed the issue that caused apostrophes to render incorrectly on person profiles.
  • On a Multipurpose page, the dark slideshow section no longer shows a pager dot even if there is only one slide.
  • Fixed the RSVP link for shared content events
  • Fixed issue with content being duplicated and inserted into a WYSIWYG ‘olympian search field’ on basic and faq pages. If you edited the content in the search field, the page would not save.
  • Fixed issue with the Home page header slideshow events and article options not displaying paging dots on the slides.
  • Accessibility improvements to people profiles and image cards.
  • Fixed text color issue with buttons added to image captions on multipurpose page full-screen slideshows'
  • The Publication page standard intro section is now pulling in the correct article images.
  • You can now choose the 'feature on event slideshow' option on an imported event without causing an error on the Events Landing page.
  • Improvements made to help block webform spam. 


August 2025

  • Fixed issue with users not being able to log into private sites
  • Fixed issue where multipurpose pages wouldn't display unless there was an image/icon in the sidebar slideshow
  • Fixed issue with tagged books not displaying properly on imported long person profiles

July 2025

  • Fixed issue with icons displaying on the editing view but not on the actual page
  • Fixed issue with migrated people profiles not displaying the headshot image
  • Many small fixes to make for a better webform user experience
  • Fixed accessibility issues with the list/grid toggle on landing pages


June 2025

  • Completed all D10 department migrations

     

May 2025

  • Fixed issue that caused icons to be replaced with images
  • Fixed issue that caused images in WYSIWYG to not migrate properly
  • Homepage sections now populate with the correct events
  • Event landing page now displays dates in the correct order
  • Byline options no longer display if the author field is left blank on Books
  • Link fields now have the correct wording 
     

April 2025

  • Add styling options to webform markups
  • Fixed lazy load for the news and event landing pages
  • Adjustments to the public/private page feature
  • Fixed news article feed on People profiles
  • Corrected links that open in new tabs
  • Fixed hidden anchor links in FAQ pages
  • Fixed formatting issues on Contact Us page


 

March 2025

  • Fixing FAQ anchor links
  • Improvements to external link arrows
  • Optimized WYSIWYG image styles
  • Fixes to Dotted Line sections
  • Adding event years to event landing pages


February 2025

  • Accessibility and helper text improvements for external links
  • Changing how search results are styled
  • Update to the image focus tool
  • Adjustments made to the hover-over button color change
  • Fixed imported book title text style
  • Fixed wording on imported events
  • Years added to event landing pages using the list view


January 2025

  • Fixed the SoundCloud field on Articles
  • Fixed styling and functionality of the Dotted Line section on Multipurpose and Image Card Landing pages
  • Enhancements to the way site search results display


 

Current announcements, fixes, and known issues