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Mercury Updates

Mercury Theme Updates

Continue checking this page to see the latest updates made to the Mercury theme.

02/19/2025

Code Updates/Fixes:

  • Fix for audience navigation click functionality (WordPress, HTML)
  • Add ability to include up to three buttons on Showcase Text + Image block (WordPress)
  • Enable single site search option (WordPress)

01/17/2025

Code Updates/Fixes:

  • Add LinkedIn social icon
  • Featured Video Multiple option to embed videos from Vimeo as well as YouTube (WordPress)
  • Improvements to the Featured Video Block (WordPress)

09/06/2024

Code Updates/Fixes:

  • Featured content header block, which uses Post categories and featured checkbox to highlight news (WordPress)
  • Event Shell block supporting templated LiveWhale calendar widget (HTML, WordPress)
  • CSS updates for Tables (HTML, WordPress)
  • CSS updates for Ordered and Unordered Lists (HTML, WordPress)
  • Option for first Accordion block to start closed (WordPress)
  • More use of get_template_directory/get_template_directory_uri instead of get_stylesheet_directory/get_stylesheet_uri to support child themes better (WordPress)
  • Option to have Section Nav open by default (WordPress)
  • Fix for section navigation to display in correct order
  • Remove radial boxes from form styling in Firefox (WordPress Gravity Forms plugin)
  • Implement Instagram Social Feed block (HTML, WordPress)
  • Add support for news/blog (WordPress)

03/04/2024

UFIT Web Services released the Figma Design Kit. This resource was developed to assist users in achieving a cohesive brand alignment through the utilization of the Mercury theme across various web platforms. The design kit, crafted to enhance the design process, serves as a visual guide for teams as they create and build their UF websites. Visit the Design Kit web page to learn more.

01/25/2024

A WordPress Multisite companion guide is now available.

Code Updates/Fixes:

  • Form styles for Gravity Forms
  • Make search bar not disappear when scrolling down the page
  • Hide alert if search bar open
  • Hide orange divider next to search icon when no utility nav dropdowns present
  • Remove active state hover color on subpage navigation items (WordPress)
  • Ability to exclude Info For and Resources as menu items (WordPress)
  • Primary menu if no drop down alignment differs from items with drop down (WordPress)
  • Ability to update footer social icon links (WordPress)

Frequently Asked Questions

Terminalfour

UFIT will offer live Terminalfour training sessions for the UF community. Please continue to check the UFIT training calendar website to see scheduled training dates.

For additional information regarding the Mercury web templates, please visit the Brand Center.

WordPress

From October 2023 to March 2024, the Office of Strategic Communications and Marketing (SCM) facilitated live WordPress training sessions with Stamats, the vendor that SCM and UFIT partnered with to create the new Mercury web templates.

If you missed those trainings, you can access one of the recordings here:

SCM will post a recording of these training sessions to the website templates page of the Brand Center.