ucf / ucf-footer-plugin

v2.0.2 2023-10-31 14:20 UTC

Requires

• composer/installers: ~1.0

Unknown License

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-10-20 18:17 UTC

README

Provides styles and functionality for displaying a consistent branded footer bar for UCF sites.

Installation

Manual Installation

1. Upload the plugin files (unzipped) to the /wp-content/plugins directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" screen in WordPress
3. Configure plugin settings from the WordPress admin under "Settings > UCF Footer".

WP CLI Installation

1. $ wp plugin install --activate https://github.com/UCF/UCF-Footer-Plugin/archive/master.zip. See WP-CLI Docs for more command options.
2. Configure plugin settings from the WordPress admin under "Settings > UCF Footer".

Installation Requirements

• Ensure your activated theme calls wp_footer() immediately before the template's closing <body> tag. wp_footer() should not be called from within any element with an explicit or max width (the UCF footer should span the full width of the page.)
• The current activated theme must enqueue the Athena Framework, and/or a Cloud.Typography CSS Key that corresponds to a font project with Gotham ScreenSmart Regular enabled. This plugin does not provide any custom webfonts.

Changelog

2.0.2

Enhancements:

• Updated social icons changing twitter bird to X.

2.0.1

Enhancements:

• Added composer file.

2.0.0

Accessibility:

• Updates font sizes from pixels to rem to more predictably scale text when the screen is zoomed.

1.0.10

• Explicitly removed underlines on main UCF link and nav menu links to support themes using Athena v1.1.1+ or other themes that enforce underlines on links by default.
• Set the main "University of Central Florida" link at the top of the footer to be inline-block instead of block level.

1.0.9

Bug fixes:

• Removed hidden text indent on social icons in favor of using aria-label
• Upgraded packages

1.0.8

Enhancements:

• Added asynchonous loading of styles for the footer
• Upgraded packages

1.0.7

Enhancements:

• Added cache-busting to the plugin's enqueued stylesheet
• Added unique aria-label value to wrapper <footer> element
• Added linter configs, Github issue/PR templates, and CONTRIBUTING doc to repo
• Upgraded packages and gulpfile

1.0.6

Enhancements:

• Added instagram logo for the social menu in the footer

1.0.5

Bug Fixes:

• Updated default social/footer menu URLs
• Updated footer font stack to work with sites utilizing the Athena Framework without premium webfonts

Enhancements:

• Added underlines to links surrounding the address text for contrast/distinguish-ability as links

1.0.4

Enhancements:

• Updated ucf.edu links to point to https
• Added nofollow to telephone link

1.0.3

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed warning due to missing argument in apply_filters() in UCF_Footer_Common::display_footer()
• Updated methods in UCF_Footer_Common to be static
• Updated .ucf-footer to be a semantic footer element

1.0.2

Enhancements:

• Added ucf_footer_display_footer filter which allows logic to be implemented for when to display the footer.

1.0.1

Bug Fixes:

• Updates the way the menu feeds are pulled to avoid problems when the feed domain is external.

1.0.0

• Initial release

Upgrade Notice

n/a

Development

Note that compiled, minified css files are included within the repo. Changes to these files should be tracked via git (so that users installing the plugin using traditional installation methods will have a working plugin out-of-the-box.)

Enabling debug mode in your wp-config.php file is recommended during development to help catch warnings and bugs.

Requirements

• node v16+
• gulp-cli

Instructions

1. Clone the UCF-Footer-Plugin repo into your local development environment, within your WordPress installation's plugins/ directory: git clone https://github.com/UCF/UCF-Footer-Plugin.git

2. cd into the new UCF-Footer-Plugin directory, and run npm install to install required packages for development into node_modules/ within the repo

3. Optional: If you'd like to enable BrowserSync for local development, or make other changes to this project's default gulp configuration, copy gulp-config.template.json, make any desired changes, and save as gulp-config.json.

   To enable BrowserSync, set sync to true and assign syncTarget the base URL of a site on your local WordPress instance that will use this plugin, such as http://localhost/wordpress/my-site/. Your syncTarget value will vary depending on your local host setup.

   The full list of modifiable config values can be viewed in gulpfile.js (see config variable).

4. Run gulp default to process front-end assets.

5. If you haven't already done so, create a new WordPress site on your development environment to test this plugin against.

6. Activate this plugin on your development WordPress site.

7. Configure plugin settings from the WordPress admin under "Settings > UCF Footer".

8. Run gulp watch to continuously watch changes to scss files. If you enabled BrowserSync in gulp-config.json, it will also reload your browser when plugin files change.

Other Notes

• This plugin's README.md file is automatically generated. Please only make modifications to the README.txt file, and make sure the gulp readme command has been run before committing README changes. See the contributing guidelines for more information.

Contributing

Want to submit a bug report or feature request? Check out our contributing guidelines for more information. We'd love to hear from you!