All blogs which haven’t been updated since the start of April 2011 (two years ago) have been archived. If you would like to revive an archived site or export a copy of the site, please contact elearning-support@arts.ac.uk. Archived sites will be deleted in due course if users don’t get in touch with us about them. […]
Category: Announcement
myblog.arts maintenance
The myblog.arts service continues to be unavailable for occasional short periods at the moment. We apologise for the inconvenience and appreciate users’ ongoing patience. Please write your work in a separate word processing programme and copy and paste it into your blog posts. This ensures that your content is safe in the event of the […]
myblog.arts availability
Apologies for the outage on the myblog.arts service this morning (14th March 2013). We are continuing to work on the reliability of the service. In the meantime, some minor features of the service may be switched off. Thanks for your understanding, – myblog.arts team […]
myblog.arts availability – update
I am pleased to say that we have isolated the cause of the recent occasional outages on the myblog.arts server. The service is now stable and the disabled plugins have been made available again. We will continue to monitor the performance of the system and make improvements where we can. UPDATE (16/03/2013). Unfortunately the problem […]
Availability of myblog.arts
March 6th 2013, 1PM. The myblog.arts service is experiencing periodic problems at the moment, and may occasionally be unavailable while we perform maintenance work. In the meantime, as a temporary measure you are advised to write your posts in a separate word-processor and then copy and paste the text into your blog post, in case […]
Outages
Unfortunately myblog.arts has been offline for short periods twice recently. We are doing work behind the scenes to address this, and will post an update soon. In the meantime, thanks for your patience. – myblog.arts team […]
Where are the privacy settings?
Since the recent update, the privacy settings for your blog have moved – they are now to be found in the Dashboard, under Settings -> Reading. […]
myblog.arts update, 4th Feb 2013
myblog.arts was updated this morning to the most recent versions of WordPress and Buddypress. Various plugins and themes were also updated. Here are some of the benefits of the update: New default theme, ‘Twenty Twelve’, which works well on mobile devices and on the desktop. New customisation options for themes, including choosing arbitrary header image […]
Slideshows
I’ve just added a feature to myblog.arts which makes it quite easy to present image slideshows, with various configuration options. Here’s an example: To learn how to set up your slideshow, log into your blog’s dashboard, go to Settings -> Portfolio Slideshow, and view the video and/or text in the documentation tab. – myblog.arts team […]
Site maintenance notes
The front page of myblog.arts was unavailable on the morning of Sunday 20th January. Apologies to those who tried to access the site at that time. We are taking steps to try to prevent a repeat of this issue. Individual users’ blogs were not affected. As a side note, all user data on myblog.arts is […]