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.
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 Custom Widgets
This plugin provides a number of custom WordPress widgets that coordinate with the Mason WordPress theme, including a site-wide alert box, call-to-action menu, highlight item, highlight list, and recent posts listing.
Recommended Third-Party Plugins
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.
Third-Party Plugin Integrations
The Events 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.
Have Questions? Need Help?
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.