A summary of the changes that will be made to the WebPublish Academia and Basic services the evening of October 28, 2025.
As a reminder, site owners are encouraged to review the impact of these changes on their site by reviewing it in the Preview environment. You can access the preview version of your site beginning October 22, at https://wp3-prev.its.queensu.ca/[pubID] (without the square brackets).
WebPublish Service Changes
A lot has changed since WebPublish 3 was launched in 2020. Due to this, the team has rolled out some updates to the service itself:
- Rebranding the "Basic" service tier as "Comprehensive"
- Rebranding the "Advanced" service tier as "WebPublish for Developers"
- Restricting access to the "Custom" service tier - "Custom" sites will no longer be offered. Clients with existing Custom sites will continue to receive the same level of service, but are encouraged to explore a transition to WebPublish Comprehensive. Please contact the IT Support Centre to discuss a transition with the WebPublish Team.
- Updated Service Level Agreements (SLAs) on the Service Level Agreements page
Updates
- Made the slideshow paragraph available on the Homepage content type
Fixes
- Changed date outputs in admin interface - now showing creation dates or last updated dates to ISO standard 8601, whereby dates/times are shown in values are ordered from the largest to smallest unit of time: year, month, day, hour, minute, second. "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss" (seconds not displayed)
- All photo captions are now italicized
- Updated link colour of select links that were appearing in <div> tags
- Removed the slideshow photo credit field from displaying when no value is present
- Fixed a bug where both mobile and desktop images were displaying on mobile when both were present in the hero image paragraph