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Home News Archive by category "Website Updates"

Category Archives: Website Updates

Server Migration Completed

wildadmin April 16, 2018 April 16, 2018News, Website Updates

In order to provide a faster loading website, security, and scalability, we have migrated to a new web hosting service. Pages should load faster and all pages should now default to https in order to provide a more secure browsing experience. Please let us know if you come across any…

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We have closed our Facebook page

wildadmin March 23, 2018 March 23, 2018News, Website Updates

In light of the recent breach of privacy with Facebook, we have decided to close our Facebook page. Thank you all for liking the page while it was active and your years of support.

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Progress Update 2/26/2018: Bug Fix / Code Update

wildadmin February 26, 2018 February 26, 2018News, Website Updates

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Progress Update 10/30/2017: The November Report

wildadmin October 30, 2017 November 13, 2017News, Website Updates

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Progress Update 9/21/2017: Big Update: Foraging, statistics, and more!

wildadmin September 21, 2017 September 21, 2017News, Website Updates

Foraging! We have finally restored a Foraging / Wild Edibles section to the website, a very popular feature on our old website. The new Foraging section still needs some fine-tuning, but for now you can view the lists of edible species for each category.  We have also added a “Edible…

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Progress Update 8/24/2017: Navigation improvements

wildadmin August 24, 2017 August 24, 2017News, Website Updates

In an effort to improve page loading time as well as keeping some pages from getting impossibly long, we have separated the “Browse by Photo” and “Browse by Name” lists into separate pages which can be toggled via a button.  This cuts the page loading time almost in half since…

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Progress Update 8/18/2017: Browse by Flower Color is back!

wildadmin August 18, 2017 August 18, 2017News, Website Updates

We have restored the Browse by Flower Color feature to our Plants section, which was a very popular feature from the old website.  It will allow you to see only flowers of a specific color to help you narrow down your search a lot faster. You may have noticed that…

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Progress Update 8/1/2017: Improved Search and Navigation

wildadmin August 1, 2017 August 1, 2017News, Website Updates

Thanks to Google we added a greatly improved search box to the website on the right sidebar. This uses Google’s Custom Search Engine, which is better than the WordPress default search engine which couldn’t quite deal with the dynamic content on our website. So searching should be a lot easier…

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Progress Update 7/19/2017: Nearly all photos have been migrated from the old website

wildadmin July 19, 2017 July 19, 2017News, Website Updates

We just finished importing about 300 plant species and 1000+ photographs for that category.  With the exception of a few photos and species that will require special consideration, we’ve finally finished importing all of the photos and species from the former website, which is a pretty big milestone. That’s about…

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Progress Update 3/17/2017: Insects category nearly done, site improvements.

wildadmin March 17, 2017 March 17, 2017News, Website Updates

The Insects category has been populated with all of the species from the former website. Additional photos have been added as well. We just need to finish cross-referencing them to locations and additional details. That should be completed within about a week or so. Once Insects is done the next,…

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