{"id":1356,"date":"2026-03-03T15:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:42:54","slug":"digital-platforms-and-developments-february-2026-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/2026\/03\/03\/digital-platforms-and-developments-february-2026-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Platforms and Developments February 2026 summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February may be the shortest month but we still packed a lot in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Consent Management Platform (aka \u201ccookie banner\u201d) implementation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As teased last time, the new cookie banner went live smoothly at the start of the month. We&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on acceptance rates and had a few smaller jobs to do such as adding it to the campus map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blogs platform theme update<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work has moved into the testing and refinement phase for the new on-brand theme for <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/\">blogs.york.ac.uk<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Accessibility testing and fixes<\/strong>, which we&#8217;ll use to inform an accessibility statement for the platform that we&#8217;ll write in March.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Design tweaks and stakeholder meetings:<\/strong> including productive sessions about making other improvements to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/\">Student Voices blog<\/a> alongside applying the new design, and internal discussions about documentation, comms and governance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>YouTube playlist embedding:<\/strong> Added new functionality to allow playlists to be embedded directly on blogs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">HR web rebuild<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve been making further progress on migrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/admin\/hr\/\">HR content<\/a> into the CMS, focusing on some of the more complex elements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Identifying solutions for specialised functionality<\/strong> such as the annual leave calculator.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Importer refinements<\/strong> including pulling in meta descriptions where they exist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Staff listings and staff profiles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve been exploring a couple of different aspects to how we present our people data across the site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Transitioning staff listings<\/strong> from the &#8220;classic&#8221; style to the Digital Pattern Library (DPL) to ensure a consistent look and feel across the departmental rebuilds &#8211; we&#8217;re looking into how we can automate this process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Improved management of multi-departmental staff<\/strong> in the web CMS for work that is starting on the rebuilds of web presences for interdisciplinary centres.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fixes and other improvements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/map\/\">Campus map<\/a> help and feedback button update:<\/strong> revised the button wording and the subsequent text to make it clearer that it can be used for reporting corrections to locations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>IT Services <a href=\"https:\/\/support.york.ac.uk\">guides, troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a> branding update<\/strong>: we helped IT to update the site to match our updated website branding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Social media icon refresh:<\/strong> updated the footer icons to remove X and add TikTok.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/03\/image-1024x420.png?resize=1024%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Updated footer showing the addition of TikTok and removal of X\" class=\"wp-image-1357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/03\/image.png?resize=1024%2C420&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/03\/image.png?resize=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/03\/image.png?resize=768%2C315&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/03\/image.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other things<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We&#8217;ve been working with the Research Communication team to plan changes to encourage signups to the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/research\/research-newsletter\/\">research newsletter<\/a> through content tweaks and some additions to relevant CMS content types.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drafting job descriptions for several upcoming recruitment rounds within the team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Helping to plan our Digital and Creative Services away morning for this quarter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February may be the shortest month but we still packed a lot in:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-digital-platforms-and-developments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uoy_author":{"name":"Paul Kelly","bio":"Digital Platforms and Developments Manager","image":{"src":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=200&d=mm&r=g","width":200,"height":200,"alt":""}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}