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Stanford Sites User Guide

Stanford Sites v5.4.1 Released – 2/13/2025

5.x
Newest release contains new social media icons, a reviewer role, and enhanced content management

Release Notes

Version 5.4.1 was a maintenance release and included the following:

Roles

  • Created a new role called Site Reviewer that will allow access to view unpublished pages
  • Updated notification email to provide more accurate and relevant welcome message when a site manager adds a new privileged user 

Enhanced Search

  • Site Managers now have access to add Algolia to improve their site search

Accordion

  • Accessibility fixes
  • Improved display for accordions on full-width pages

Content Management

  • New content management pages for People, Events and News, featuring filtering by their respective taxonomies

Accessibility

  • Site title is now a visually hidden h1 on the homepage to create appropriate header order and to support SEO
  • Adjusted Skip Secondary Nav anchor link
  • Allowed all language options in CKeditor
  • Added aria-live:polite to modals

Social Links in the Local Footer

  • Improved help text 
  • Support for Flickr, Bluesky, Github, and Threads
  • Updated X icon

Refinements to Stanford Basic design

  • Removed max-width on Intro Text and Drop Cap Text styles
  • Removed paragraph line length
  • Improved styling for the Quote Text style
  • Reduced spacing on News lists
  • Reduced spacing on Event lists
  • Adjustment to spacing in two- and three-column layouts

Publications

  • Updated Chicago citation format markups for date year issue