All the themes were updated to their latest versions. The Jetpack plugin, which is available on request, was also updated to the latest version. If you’re a Jetpack user, please check that your Jetpack connection to WordPress.com is still active after the upgrade. – myblog.arts team […]
myblog.arts was offline on the evening of Monday 24th November. This was due to scheduled server maintenance which started at 8pm. Unfortunately the period of maintenance was much longer than anticipated, and the service did not come back up until around midnight. We are in discussions with the IT department about providing placeholder messages on […]
I’ve noticed quite a few spam comments coming through, in spite of the Captchas in comment forms (Captchas are the ones with a picture of some numbers or some text, which you have to type into a box to prove you’re a human). I have now enabled Captchas for logged-in users just to see whether […]
The myblog.arts service has been unavailable intermittently over the last few days. We are looking to introduce updates to the service’s hosting infrastructure soon, to address this issue. In the meantime we apologise for any inconvenience caused. myblog.arts team […]
myblog.arts was updated to the most recent version of WordPress, 3.9.1, this morning. Changes and new features are summarised on this page: http://wordpress.org/news/2014/04/smith/ Here’s a short video overview of the new features: Please report any issues you’re experiencing after the upgrade to elearning-support@arts.ac.uk […]
The myblog service will be offline for approximately 1 hour from 11am on Tuesday 27th May 2014, while we update WordPress to the latest version. This helps keep our blogs secure and gives us the benefits of the latest features and improvements to the software. Thanks for your understanding. – myblog.arts team […]
myblog.arts was offline over the weekend, along with various other UAL web-based services, due to a network fault in the university’s IT infrastructure. We apologize for the inconvenience. If we get any further updates on this issue from the IT department we will post them here. – myblog.arts team […]
A couple of new themes have been added to myblog.arts recently, Cell and Proxima. Cell is a portfolio theme, while Proxima is a magazine-type theme. As always however it is possible to use them for other purposes or to customise them to meet your ends. Since we moved to a new forum system, the menus […]
As an update to the recent outage of myblog.arts and other UAL web services, Gareth Bedford of IT Services has shared the following message: On behalf of IT Services, I would like to sincerely apologise for last weeks’ disruptions after the power down at Elephant & Castle; it was really very frustrating and extremely disappointing […]
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Skillshare is a directory of UAL students and staff with skills offered or wanted. You can find Skillshare listings (and add your own) at the university’s versatile eportfolio site, workflow. Now links to the latest skillshare postings are shown on the front page of myblog.arts. The listings are updated hourly. Skillshare was designed to help […]