If you are a Twitter fan, you will be familiar with referencing other Twitter users using @username tags. This feature exists in myblog.arts too – I’ve just re-enabled it after making a few tweaks. For the moment it only works in updates you make in your profile pages, or in discussion forums. (This is a […]
Category: Site updates
The return of the Welcome page
First time myblog.arts users are now redirected to the Welcome page when first creating an account. Greetings to all our users and visitors! From http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/welcome.htm : Language Welcome Afrikaans Welkom Albanian Mirë se vjen Arabic (Egyptian) (ahlan wa sahlan) أهلاً و سهلاً Arabic (Modern Standard) (ahlan wa sahlan) أهلاً و سهلاً Armenian (Eastern) Բարի գալուստ! […]
Recent posts
The link to ‘See all recent’ posts was broken by a recent update – I’ve fixed it now, along with an issue where posts would be duplicated on the recent posts page when they were updated by their authors. The ‘see all recent posts’ page is now a great way to browse through content on […]
Invitations to group fixed
There was a problem with the search function when searching for users to invite to a group. It should be fixed now. […]
Avatar upload bug fix
It wasn’t possible to upload avatar image files with upper case extensions (e.g. JPG instead of jpg). Now it is! […]
Updates to member page urls and ‘mention’ names
I’ve just made some changes so that the urls of member pages now use users’ first names and last names joined together, instead of their login username. This was because for students, the username is the student ID, and we don’t want to display that next to the user’s real name. So while your profile […]
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Updates to myblog.arts
A new round of updates has just been made to the myblog.arts service, including: Service updated to the most recent WordPress software. Your Dashboard will look slightly different. A full-screen edit mode is now available when creating posts and pages. Various bugfixes and improvements in the background. Service updated to the most recent Buddypress software. […]
New myblog.arts screencasts
We have some excellent new screencasts explaining how to use myblog.arts, courtesy of Lindsay Jordan. See the ‘Help’ tab or go straight to this page: http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/quick-start-videos Thanks Lindsay! […]
Blog Privacy
In my test version of myblog.arts, I have some new blog privacy options working, based on the ‘More Privacy Options’ plugin for WordPress: Site Visibility 1. I would like my site to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers 2. I would like to block search engines, but allow […]
Updated ‘Recent posts…’
I improved the ‘Recent Posts’ section on the front page of the site. Previously, user’s blog entries were moved up the ‘Recent’ list when they edited their blogs, even if they hadn’t made a new post. Posts should now be listed in order of their original publication date. […]