The Delicate, Responsive and zBench themes were updated to the most recent versions. […]
Category: Site updates
Blogs archived
All blogs which haven’t been updated since the start of April 2011 (two years ago) have been archived.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. […]
Fixes to blog creation
The error messages on the ‘signup for an account’ page now properly reflect any problems encountered when signing up for a blog or account. Users should also be forwarded correctly to the Welcome page when logging in to myblog.arts for the first time. Previously, in some cases they may have been forwarded to a page […]
myblog.arts plugins
As part of ongoing maintenance on the myblog.arts service, two plugins have been switched off – Social Sharing Toolkit and Subscribe to Comments. We hope to reenable this functionality soon. – 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 issues
In a small number of cases, since the last update to the blog service, links to some blog pages may be broken. To fix this please log into your blog’s Dashboard, go to Settings -> Permalinks and click on ‘Save Changes’. You don’t need to change the Permalinks settings, just click Save Changes. This should […]
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 […]
Performance improvements to myblog.arts
Recently the UAL blogging platform ‘myblog.arts’ (http://myblog.arts.ac.uk) has experienced a steep growth in usage. This unfortunately highlighted an issue which caused the site to become unavailable on several occasions. Investigations have been ongoing to identify the reason for this and work has now taken place to address the identified issue. Currently myblog.arts is operating healthily […]
New social features in myblog.arts
If you are sharp-eyed you may have noticed a few new features in myblog.arts. We have added the option to add links to social networks after each post and page, so that visitors can share links to your content on other sites. To enable that option on your blog, go to your blog dashboard and […]