Thanks to Peter, who has put together a new screencast on how to optimise your images for the web. This very useful information will help your web pages load quickly to give the best experience for visitors to your web site, whether it’s here on myblog.arts or anywhere else on the web. The video is […]
Category: Site updates
New themes added
There are now 6 new themes to choose from in myblog.arts, including a couple of new ones designed to showcase image-based content. Look in your Dashboard, under Appearance -> Themes, to explore the options. Most of the themes have their own options, also under the Appearance menu, which allow you to tweak them further. […]
myblog.arts updated – 28th March 2012
As WordPress blog software development races forwards, so we update to keep in step. This means that we get the benefits of new features and fixes contributed by the wide community of WordPress and Buddypress users and programmers. It also means that the blog features and interface change and evolve. In this update, the main […]
Adding users to your blog more easily
It’s now a little bit easier to add other myblog.arts users to your blog, should you wish them to be co-contributors. In your Dashboard, click on Users -> All Users, then on the ‘Add Existing’ button. If you start typing in the box, suggestions of usernames will appear automatically. You can create a whole list […]
Update – Image Optimisation
Now when you upload large images to your blog on myblog.arts, the image file you uploaded is replaced with the ‘Large-size’ version that WordPress automatically generates. This should save you disk space and help your blog pages to load more quickly. So, if you upload an image directly from your digital camera, which is for […]
More storage space
The amount of disk space per blog has increased from 250MB to 1GB (1000MB). (But you will still need to optimise your images for the web if you want them to load in your browser at a reasonable speed!) […]
P2 theme updated
The P2 theme, which is the default theme for group blogs, was updated. I also set ‘Blog Post’ to be the default option in P2 when posting from the front page editor. […]
myblog.arts screencasts updated
Many thanks to Peter, who added some voice-over to some of our short myblog.arts screencasts, which are accessible via the Help Tab. The screencasts give a quick introduction to common tasks in myblog.arts, and are worth a look for those new to blogging with WordPress. […]
Members’ Profile and Activity Pages
When viewing information about myblog.arts members, the members’ Profile and Activity pages are now visible only to logged-in myblog.arts users. In the new year we will introduce an option to make these pages private. Previously they were public by default (though links to private blog posts on those pages did not work except for users […]
Updates to Group Blogs
It’s now possible to choose the name and url of your group blog when creating it. You can also ‘uncouple’ the blog from your group – and hook it up to a different or new one if you wish. A bug was fixed where existing group members weren’t added to a newly created group blog. […]