Service offline for maintenance The myblog.arts service is scheduled to be offline at times on Tuesday 14th January while essential maintenance is carried out on the service. Please notify any colleagues who use the myblog.arts service and may be affected. Thank you for your understanding. – myblog.arts team […]
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myblog.arts was unavailable this morning for approximately one hour. This was one in a series of recent occasional outages. We are working towards building a more reliable service and hope to implement changes to the hosting arrangments for myblog.arts soon. News about updates will be posted here and on the CLTAD twitter feed. Please note, […]
The home page of myblog.arts, and the other pages in the main site, should now be more mobile-friendly, reformatting automatically to fit smaller tablet and phone screens. You can test the layout changes in a desktop computer too, just by resizing your browser window to a small size. […]
A few of the themes weren’t properly updated with the rest of the myblog.arts site last Thursday (Grido, Pinboard & Responsive). They have now been properly reinstated and blogs using those themes should be back to normal. – myblog.arts team […]
Myblog.arts was updated today at 16:45, with WordPress being updated to version 3.6.1, and Buddypress to 1.8.1. This update introduces the new WordPress theme TwentyThirteen, as well as many fixes and some new features, listed here: http://wordpress.org/news/2013/08/oscar/ Many of the themes also received updates. If you experience any problems with the myblog.arts platform, or particular […]
Staff can now enrol all members of a Moodle course into a myblog.arts blog in one quick operation. If the users don’t have a myblog.arts account, one will be created for them and they will be enrolled onto the blog. To access this feature, log into your blog and go to the Dashboard. Under the […]
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There is a new option to embed Twitter feeds into myblog.arts. Twitter updated their service recently, and they made it harder to add Twitter feeds to web pages, so the process of adding a feed is a bit more involved than it used to be. You are required to have a Twitter account and set […]
MailChimp is a service for managing email subscription lists and sending bulk emails. We’ve added a plugin to allow your blog visitors to sign up to a MailChimp mailing list without leaving your blog page. To use, it you will need to sign up for a MailChimp account. Once you’ve done that, go to your […]
Twitter has changed the way that Twitter feeds can be accessed from external sites (like this one), with the result that the Twitter widget is no longer working here at myblog.arts, and has been disabled. We will look at alternatives and hope to provide a new widget soon. EDIT: a previous solution posted here was […]
Your profile and activity information in myblog.arts is available only to logged-in users, by default. (You can choose to make the individual profile fields public if you wish.) Some users have expressed concern that their profile page has shown up in Google searches, even after they have deleted their blogs. While the content on profile […]