After some unanticipated problems with migrating to a new server, we are up and running again. Please let us know if you come across any problems: elearning-support@arts.ac.uk In particular, please check your blog for spam comments and mark them accordingly – the spam filter was deactivated at some points over the last few days. We […]
Category: Site updates
myblog.arts upgrade
An upgrade of this site will take place on the afternoon of Thursday 23rd of June 2011, from around 1pm. The service will be unavailable for some hours while the work takes place. Thanks for your patience! I’m pleased to say that we’re moving the myblog.arts service to a bigger and better web server. This […]
Spam filter working again
The spam filter is working again. Hopefully you should have far fewer spam comments coming your way from now on. We will keep a close eye on this, and post any updates here on the News page. […]
Email all group members
There’s a new option for group admins to send an email to all group members. In your group page, visit Admin->Email Options. […]
Login problems?
I updated the information in the Help tab about what steps to take if you’re having login problems. See this entry in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Why can’t I login or create a blog? […]
Password protected posts
Added a fix so that these don’t show up on the front page, in the ‘Recent’ section, or their images in the recent thumbnails. […]
Google Maps offline… EDIT: working again.
Oops. The Google Maps plugin will need a few tweaks before it works properly for everyone. I’ll fix it and put it back up again some time today. EDIT: should be working OK now. […]
Google Maps and Twitter Feeds
A couple of new features are now available on myblog.arts. Google Maps There’s a new button to insert a Google Map into your post. See below: Click on the ‘G’ button when creating a new post. A window will open with options to do a search for your map location (use the ‘Center Point’ box). […]
Exclude pages from navigation
A small but useful update. You can now choose whether a link to any page you create appears on the front page of your blog. New pages will usually appear as links on the front page of your blog by default. If you don’t want that to happen, edit the page and unclick the checkbox […]
New Group Home Page
I’ve updated groups to each have a ‘Home’ tab, where all the group’s activity is summarised. Group admins can add group members’ individual blogs as feeds to this page, so that they can keep track of multiple blogs on one page. To add members’ blogs as feeds: Go to your group. Choose the Admin tab. […]