Category: Library News

Akismet – Getting your own license

Post author By NEKLS
Post date June 8, 2015

Janelle from SWKLS wrote:

I *think* when KLOW first started several sites were sharing an Akismet key, but I could be wrong in this thinking. I think this key may have been set up when the sites were installed. I just thought I would give you a heads up in case other sites have issues. Although, it may just be us. I am working on getting these two sites setup with their own private akismet accounts…

Thanks Janelle, as an admin who isn’t always in the know, your message prepared me forÂ when I received aÂ call about the same problem.

If you are having this issue your library will want toÂ head to your plugins in the WordPress dashboard, from there, open the Akismet Settings page and choose “Disconnect This Account”. Follow the prompts to set up your own license key by entering your own email address. You will create an account and then after donating ($0.00 and up), you will be given a key that you can enter back into your Aksimet plugin.

-D

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Makerbook – Image Resources

Post author By NEKLS
Post date May 28, 2015

Have you ever needed a creative spark? A new place to find royalty free images? How about some help in picking a color palette? Did you ever look at your websites background and think “I’d love to have a texture here”?

I discovered a neat portal to explore all these things, it is called Makerbook. The webmaster has tirelessly collected all kinds of resources for different file types.

Makerbook also has links for finding stock video and audio clips, so this might be a good resource for your next in-house produced podcast or video.

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Custom Footer for My Kansas Library Sites

Post author By NEKLS
Post date April 8, 2015

At the bottom of this website there is a custom footer. If you too would like to give credit to Kansas State Library, The Institute for Museum and Library Services, and NEKLS for the My Kansas Library project, you can add the following to the footer section of your website. If you are using a Genesis Framework based theme it is very simple to make changes to the footer area using the Genesis – Simple Edits plug-in. Inside the plugin, I added the new code (shown below) to the Footer OutputÂ field.

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WordPress 4.1.1

Post author By NEKLS
Post date February 19, 2015

WordPress put out a maintenance update today (just minor bug fixes, no real changes). I will warn you that it takes a bit of time to do the database upgrade, even on smaller sites, so you may want to do it when the site isn’t normally busy, otherwise, there are no known reasons not to upgrade at this time. The changes are minor, but might help your site run a bit better!

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Do you use the Slider Revolution plugin?

Post author By NEKLS
Post date December 17, 2014

If you do, there is a major vulnerability in older versions that is causing a BUNCH of problems with the WordPress sites that use it. One issue is that the older, insecure version is shipped with some themes (but I’m not sure which ones – I’ve not seen a list of them, I’ll post when/if I do) and so you might not even realize you have it. It does seem to be a premium offering – so if you’ve never purchased a theme or a plugin, you are safe. If you have, check your plugins (Dashboard –> Plugins –> Installed Plugins) and see if Slider Revolution is there. If it is – update it immediately (if it’s not already at the 4.1.4 version). I think, for the most part, KLOW isn’t going to be affected by this because we tend to use free themes, but this plugin is cheap ($18) and so it might have been purchased and used by some of our libraries! Better safe than sorry!!

More information can be found at http://gizmodo.com/mysterious-russian-malware-is-infecting-over-100-000-wo-1671419522.