The Mason WordPress Platform includes: secure WordPress cloud hosting, the Mason Twenty Twenty theme – a Mason-branded custom WordPress theme based on the official WordPress Twenty Twenty theme – and modular plugins to add functionality.
Philosophy
Modular
Separate Form and Function. The Mason Twenty Twenty theme gives your website a Mason look; modular plugins are used to implement additional features. Web hosting is available. You choose the pieces you want.
Flexible
Modularity provides flexibility. If you like the functionality offered by one or more of the plugins, you can use them without switching to a new theme. Conversely, if you’re using the Mason theme and want to consider changing it later, you won’t be losing any functionality as a result.
Extensible
Modularity allows for extensibility. We can add new features as needed. And, if you need a plugin or a custom widget that isn’t available, you can write your own.
Open-Source
You can see and understand the code. The code for the Mason Twenty Twenty theme and all custom plugins are available on GitHub.
Supported
You can contact us if you have questions or need help. For more-detailed requests you can submit a ticket. We track issues related to the Mason Twenty Twenty theme and our custom plugins in their GitHub repositories. We have a WordPress users listserv and a users group. Either someone has already figured it out, or we’ll figure it out together.
Mason Twenty Twenty Theme
The Mason Twenty Twenty theme has been designed to coordinate with the university’s digital identity. It’s packed with menu locations and widget areas, is highly customizable, and everything is mobile-friendly. Learn more about the Mason Twenty Twenty Theme.
Plugin Integration
We’ve developed some custom WordPress plugins to solve specific problems, and we’ve tested and and/or developed integrations for some commonly-used and highly-rated third-party plugins.
Custom Plugins- Mason Meta Information
- This plugin includes Mason-specific information in the website’s meta tags. These help us to identify appropriate website contacts across our websites in an automated way, and can be leveraged for things like enterprise search indexing.
- Mason Custom Widgets
- This plugin provides a number of custom WordPress widgets which coordinate with the Mason WordPress theme: site-wide alert box, call-to-action menu, highlight item, highlight list, and recent posts listing.
- Mason Sucuri Integration
- This plugin connects your WordPress admin section with the Sucuri web application firewall, allowing you to clear your website’s Sucuri cache from within the WordPress admin section.
In cases where there are widely-used, frequently-updated, well-supported and well-reviewed third-party WordPress plugins which solve specific website problems, we recommend them. Please see the Recommended Third-Party Plugins page to see more information about what third-party plugins we recommend and why.
- Collapse-O-Matic
- We’ve included styling for the Collapse-O-Matic plugin so that expanding/collapsing content sections handled with this plugin will be styled automatically to coordinate with the Mason visual identity.
- The Event Calendar
- We’ve included custom templates and styling the The Event Calendar plugin so that its event lists and individual event entries will be styled automatically to coordinate with the Mason visual identity.