Snippet Replacements
A Guide for Moving to the Refreshed Snippets
The following is a list of which snippets and snippet categories are being removed. There is a provided list of the new snippet names and what snippet are safe to migrate to.
Refresh Status:
- Phase 1: General Snippets - Rolled Out
- Phase 2: Pathway Snippets - Rolled Out
- Phase 3: Content Snippets - 5/6 Snippets Rolled Out
- Phase 4: Layout Snippets
- Phase 5: Technical Snippets
- Phase 6: Dynamic Snippets
Rolled Out & Ready to Update Snippets
If possible, start migrating away from the removed snippets in this list.
Check Out the Refreshed Snippets
Phase 1 Rollout
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Accordion
Toggle More InfoIn order to be more consistent, we will only have 2 styles of branded accordions.
Removals Replacements Accordion | Simple Accordion Keeping New Name Accordion | Simple Accordion Accordion | Show-Hide Show More -
Video
Toggle More InfoIn order to be more consistent, we will only have 1 styles of branded video players.
Removals Replacements Video | Background Video Video | Box (COMBO) Video Video | Description Video Keeping New Name Video | Single Video
Phase 2 Rollout
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Featured
Toggle More InfoWe are eliminating old/outdated snippets, photo/ghosted backgrounds. Keeping one single style will unify all pages into a branded house.
Removals Replacements Featured | 2 up | Square Featured Circle Featured | 2 up | Square alt Featured Circle Featured | 3 up | Square Featured Circle Featured | 3 up | Square alt Featured Circle Featured | 4 up | Square Featured Circle Keeping New Name Featured | Circle | Images Featured Circle -
Grid Box
Toggle More InfoThese are additional pathway styles which were tricky to use, understand and made pages feel inconsistent in style. Pathway snippets are now in three levels that emphasize importance of the links. Link farms should be reduced into drop down Lists or re-evaluated on whether it needs to be on the page.
Removals Replacements Grid Box | 8 up Featured Circle OR Drop Down List Grid Box | Flexible | Blue Featured Circle Grid Box | Flexible | White Featured Circle Grid Box | Multi-color | 3 up Drop Down List OR Quick Paths Grid Box | Tri-color | 3 up Featured Circle OR Quick Paths Keeping None -
Web Components
Toggle More InfoWe are eliminating difficult to use and understand snippets. There were a very few amount of people using these snippets and if they were to leave their position, it would be very tricky for another individual to understand how to make updates to the page.
Removals Replacements Web Component | Content Wizard Editor's Choice (Depends on use-case) Web Component | Show Content Editor's Choice (Depends on use-case) Keeping New Name Web Component | Drop Down List Links Drop Down List Web Component | HTML | JS Code Embed Code (Admin Only) Note: The HTML snippet was made Admin only, although copy and pasting code can be easy for some, embedded page elements can cause undesired conflicts in the Javascript or on mobile displays. It's best that a gets created for the web team to install the code.
Phase 3 Rollout
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Tabs
Toggle More InfoNo updates needed, documentation and display changes are being made.
Removals None Keeping New Name Tabs | Horizontal Horizontal Tabs Tabs | Vertical Vertical Tabs -
Testimonials
Toggle More InfoIn order to be more consistent, we will only have 1 styles of branded Contact Snippet. Slideshow testimonials will be removed since they hide content and are less likely to be updated. It's preferred to have one testimonial and change it out in a more frequent timing, this will both improve SEO and the user-experience of the page.
Removals Replacements Testimonials | 3 Up | Dynamic Testimonials OR Editor's Choice Testimonials | Circle | Carousel Testimonials OR Editor's Choice Testimonials | Horizontal | CTA Testimonials OR Editor's Choice Testimonials | Horizontal | Dynamic Testimonials OR Editor's Choice Testimonials | Text | Carousel Testimonials OR Editor's Choice Testimonials | Vertical | Manual Testimonials OR Editor's Choice Keeping New Name Testimonials | Horizontal | Manual Testimonials -
Infotext
Toggle More InfoThe snippet varieties are being reduced and the categories and naming have been adjusted to make more sense.
Removals Replacements Infotext | 3 up | Simple Cards Infotext | Column | Title Contact Infotext | Promo Cards Keeping New Name Infotext | 2 up | Contact (COMBO) Contact Infotext | Multiple up | Simple Cards Infotext | Quick Facts Quick Facts Infotext | Quick Note Quick Note
Future Rollouts & Not Yet Implemented
These are snippets that you can continue to use, but be aware that these will be removed at some point. It is not recommend to migrate before rollout, changes may occur to the snippet framework (if needed).
Phase 3 Rollout - Part 2
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Contact (For Department)
Toggle More InfoIn order to be more consistent, we will only have 1 styles of branded Contact Snippet for department contacts. Note: The directory snippet will be refreshed in a later rollout, phase 6.
Removals Replacements Contact | Department Contact Keeping New Name Contact | Directory | Dynamic Contact
Phase 4 Rollout
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Text + Image
Toggle More InfoThese snippets are outdated and hard to use. They're a complex variation of what can be achieved with the container snippets.
Removals Replacements Text + Image | 2 up Multiple Columns Text + Image | Article Multiple Columns Text + Image | Full Width Text Container Text + Image | Wrapped Text Container Keeping None -
Billboard
Toggle More InfoWe are moving away from colored backgrounds to eliminate repetition, bad usage of billboards, textured backgrounds and avoid ADA compliant issues. The Text Container snippet is capable of applying gray backgrounds.
Removals Replacements Billboard | Background | Overlay Text Container (with Gray Background) Billboard | Box Text Container (with Gray Background) Billboard | Blue Overlay Text Container (with Gray Background) Billboard | Dark Overlay | No Background Text Container (with Gray Background) Billboard | No Overlay Text Container (with Gray Background) Billboard | Multi Color-Texture | Overlay Text Container (with Gray Background) Removals None -
Container
Toggle More InfoColored backgrounds are being removed in order to reduce chances of ADA conflicts and random column sizes are being reduced to a select few sizes so we don't have unorganized layouts.
Removals Replacements Container | 2-3 Columns | Blue Multiple Columns Container | 3|4 | 1|4 Two-Thirds Container Container | Background | Snippet Holder Editor's Choice (Depends on use-case) Keeping New Name 1 Container | Text Text Container Container | 2|3 | 1|3 Two-Thirds Container Container | Multiple Columns Multiple Columns
Phase 5 Rollout
TBD
Phase 6 Rollout
TBD