UNL CMS Updates

Deployed Features and Issue Fixes

  • UNL Access Module: Ability to restrict page viewing access to logged-in users, including faculty, staff, students, alumni, or guests. Note: this does not restrict viewing access to individual files or media if their direct URLs are known. We encourage using SharePoint links on your page if you want to restrict file/media viewing access.
  • Performance Improvements - Groups: Sites running groups will notice an improvement in editing speed.
  • Editing Temporary Transition Page is Disabled: As of June 30, 2025 content editing is disabled for Temporary Transition Pages. If changes are needed on a Temporary Transition page, a new Builder Page should be made as a replacement, and this page set to Unpublished (or deleted entirely). Once the new Builder Page has been created, you will want to find and edit the URL alias path (at /admin/config/search/path/) that the page is using so that the new page maintains the same address. Unless you unpublish or delete the page yourself, it will remain Published and live until January 2026 at which time it will be permanently set to Unpublished.
  • News Content Type Tag Field: Added tag field for news content types. Accessed at /tag/{tagname}/. Added a taxonomy term filter to the News Aggregated component, allowing users to display/filter news items related to selected tags. New! To access only news items related to that tag, go to /tag/{tagname}/news.
  • Bluesky Integration: Bluesky social media link option has been added to the social media component, person page, and a page’s contact info block.
  • Blockquote Tag: Blockquote in the ckeditor/body field is now styled DCF.
  • Body/ckeditor field Telephone Links: Issue with saving a page that has telephone links. Example, tel:{phone-number} and mailto:{email-address.
  • Unstyled pagination for Tag List Page: found on /tag/EXAMPLE-TAG-NAME.
  • LinkedIn URLs in Social Media component: Editors should enter only the part that comes after https://www.linkedin.com/ in the LinkedIn username field. The 'ln' prefix is removed automatically unless the input does not contain a /.
  • WebAudit Error Fixes:
    • Pill badge color contrast issue for the News content type in dark mode.
    • Color contrast on aggregated news lists across different section background settings.
    • Others found on the GitHub issue.

  • Group Person Pages: Enable editing for individuals referenced on a group person page.
  • Related Links Duplication: Fixed related links repeating on group pages. The fix may not yet be deployed to all sites.
  • More link validator issue fixes: Linking internal page/media issues exist on sites that aren't live (don't have their own subdomain) or sites installed on an extended URL off of cms.unl.edu.
  • unl_news (Nebraska Today Stories): Added pubDate param to the unl_news API request to limit fetching stories to no more than one year old.


Finalized and In Review
  • Issue adding anchor ids to elements: When adding an anchor link, the link validator does not like the link's href is empty.
  • MathJax Integration: Enable MathJax support within CKEditor for rendering mathematical formulas.
  • Scheduler Module: Adds the ability to schedule content for publishing and unpublishing at specified dates and times in the future.
  • New Custom Icons: Katie from UComm has created new custom icons, which Ryan has optimized and uploaded. These icons include the Library Cupola, NU Beef Cow Face, NU Dairy Cow, NU Love Library, NU Pennant, and more.


In Development
  • WDN 6 on Drupal: Implement the initial steps to upgrade to WDN 6 framework.
  • Drupal 11 Upgrade: Implement the initial steps to upgrade to Drupal 11.
  • UNL_News Media Issue: Fix missing media (video) items when imported from Nebraska Today.
  • URLs in Text Area (Body Field): Linking to an internal Drupal node can sometimes result in empty anchor tags, which may also prevent content from being saved. A Drupal upgrade is required to permanently fix this issue. A temporary resolution and more information can be found in the linked GitHub issue.
  • Ongoing performance enhancements


Future Plans
  • Last Editor Display: Display the name of the last editor on the Content list page.
  • Block Layout for Developers: Enable block layout functionality for developers.
  • Path Alias Patterns: Implement Developer access to path alias patterns for content types like taxonomies.
  • Ongoing fixes of Web Audit errors
  • Other issues can be found on Github - https://github.com/unlcms/project-herbie/issues

More details at: https://wdn.unl.edu/documentation/unl-cms-roadmap/

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