Operational and Enhancement updates

Known issues with SiteWorks production sites along with items of immediate technical interest will be posted here.

A formal record of changes as recorded by the team’s Change Board are available from menu Web Manager > Enhancement updates

LiteSpeed Cache removed 4th December 2024

In the SiteWorks distribution, one of the plugins was LiteSpeed Cache. This was included to provide a faster response to the user and reduce server load.  In practice, we found LiteSpeed caused significant issues for a few sites so has been disabled for sometime.

Following investigation, software modifications and rigorous testing,  the issues with the plugin could not be easily resolved. The team agreed to remove LiteSpeed Cache from all current and future sites and this was undertaken on the 4 December.  Experience has shown that removal has had no impact on either response time or server load.

Update deployed from 7th December 2024

Over the weekend of the 7th December, a number of updates were deployed, including:

  1. The information displayed and is layout in the All Events, All Groups, All Contacts, All Venues and All Notices pages has been modified to ensure consistency between these pages.
  2. Change short text form of group status to “Waiting list” from “Wait List”, when a groups status is changed to “Active, but can join waiting list”
  3. Due to the above change, this has impacted on the operation of the Import/Export plug in. This update changed the text of one of the group status flags from Wait List to Waiting List, hence group information extracted before this date may result in errors when uploaded, if the incorrect status flag is present.. It is recommended that a new extraction be made, or the CSV information edited as required, before any upload is performed.
  4. Added a field for an optional phone number to the contact form. 
  5. To help individual committee members and group leaders, the email sent from the contact form will appear in their inboxes with the prefix: u3a enquiry added to the subject line. If no phone number is provided this is stated.
  6. In the list of plugins, the dependencies are now shown for reference. This will allow Administrators to be aware of which plugins are required by another plugin to work correctly.  For example, the u3a Siteworks Core, required the Meta Box plugin to operate correctly.

These changes have been incorporated into the user guide.