myblog | admin | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/admin/activity/ Activity feed for admin. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:50:05 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 fa7a36725ddccda91b028be2d36f151d admin joined the group usera1 https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/419461/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 05:04:57 +0000 0 1cd749c000c1cf0d39423845081edb84 admin replied to the topic in the forum https://lucypanesar.myblog.arts.ac.uk/forums/topic/hello-world/#post-5 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 08:56:22 +0000 Oh, and this is what a reply looks like.

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]]> 0 af97ec936aac168b6a4d3234bd5d23ef admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1583 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:58:27 +0000 I’ve noticed quite a few spam comments coming through, in spite of the Captchas in comment forms (Captchas are the ones with a picture of some numbers or some text, which you have to type into a box to prove […]

]]> fb9ec1983c27bf5b3795f47f1e662820 admin replied to the topic in the forum http://thebiggerpicture2014g13t4.myblog.arts.ac.uk/forums/topic/hello-world/#post-5 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:13:58 +0000 Oh, and this is what a reply looks like.

]]> 0 d82b60c0418bcf8f77f027b0322f57ab admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1578 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:29:59 +0000 The myblog.arts service has been unavailable intermittently over the last few days.
We are looking to introduce updates to the service’s hosting infrastructure soon, to address this issue.
In the meantime we […]

]]> 700000c70a2c4459eb5ede1e26b28622 admin replied to the topic in the forum https://runway2014fashionbusinessandmanagement.myblog.arts.ac.uk/forums/topic/hello-world/#post-5 Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:59:10 +0000 Oh, and this is what a reply looks like.

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]]> 0 700000c70a2c4459eb5ede1e26b28622 admin replied to the topic in the forum http://runway2014test.myblog.arts.ac.uk/forums/topic/hello-world/#post-5 Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:59:10 +0000 Oh, and this is what a reply looks like.

]]> 0 1d0c51282269f87379cc3f9afd8ca931 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1568 Tue, 27 May 2014 10:56:56 +0000 myblog.arts was updated to the most recent version of WordPress, 3.9.1, this morning. Changes and new features are summarised on this page: http://wordpress.org/news/2014/04/smith/

Here’s a short video overview of the new features:

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Please report any issues you’re experiencing after the upgrade to elearning-support@arts.ac.uk

]]> 2dd1773591ce098b4a3db59aaf65763c admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1566 Thu, 22 May 2014 15:43:01 +0000 The myblog service will be offline for approximately 1 hour from 11am on Tuesday 27th May 2014, while we update WordPress to the latest version.

This helps keep our blogs secure and gives us the benefits of the […]

]]> bdeb9c4c48e4639a92913d0db929715e admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1562 Wed, 07 May 2014 10:52:21 +0000 myblog.arts was offline over the weekend, along with various other UAL web-based services, due to a network fault in the university’s IT infrastructure. We apologize for the inconvenience. If we get any further […]

]]> 2646b13484edf6a87a1aa0ffeea12a8d admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1558 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:32:53 +0000 A few new themes have been added to myblog.arts recently, Cell and Proxima. Cell is a portfolio theme, while Proxima is a magazine-type theme. As always however it is possible to use them for other purposes or to […]

]]> 0a75aef98ed2e6d62068b8e14f3ed2d9 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1554 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:15:34 +0000 As an update to the recent outage of myblog.arts and other UAL web services, Gareth Bedford of IT Services has shared the following message:

On behalf of IT Services, I would like to sincerely apologise for last […]

]]> 8c58dc7611af811b043b0a26badf5974 admin started the topic IMG_2330 in the forum adminbar_drop1 http://academicleadersforum.myblog.arts.ac.uk/forums/topic/topic-1/ Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:39:54 +0000 Hi everyone – please use this thread to put forward any ideas you have for future events, anything you’d like us to cover on the Forum agenda etc, and the steering group will review your suggestions when planning future events.  Thanks.

]]> 0 2363a60c3e3da03d6fa51cc5b642e639 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1551 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:28:48 +0000 ThumbnailSkillshare is a directory of UAL students and staff with skills offered or wanted. You can find Skillshare listings (and add your own) at the university’s versatile eportfolio site, workflow.

Now links to the […]

]]> e2f82a23653abde6f31339d8d966c3b5 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1550 Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:05:44 +0000 myblog.arts was offline from 5pm on Friday 15th March until 11:50am on Wednesday 19th March. IT Services have informed us that this was due to a hardware failure after electrical works at Elephant and Castle, […]

]]> 187eb6fc658a0b0da3af6f63575680d5 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1547 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:37:32 +0000 ThumbnailEstates are carrying out electrical work at Elephant & Castle this Saturday which will result in a loss of all IT services. The data centre will be powered down at 1700 on Friday and it is expected that the power […]

]]> b1a8f79575ce0015c4e9471aab9ed516 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1539 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:07:33 +0000 ThumbnailLogged-out myblog.arts users are now required to enter Captcha Codes when posting comments.

This is to prevent our blogs being deluged with automated spam comments, which clog up our database and slow down the […]

]]> 25b4cb74aa275ca17664bfc9858b6bf7 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1535 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:28:06 +0000 There was an error message when logging in to myblog.arts about enabling cookies, even when cookies were enabled. Should be fixed now.

– myblog.arts team

]]> 6adb075f3081e64daf9f6da1c5f2b4e4 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1533 Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:51:40 +0000 Unfortunately the myblog.arts service was unavailable at times on the evening of Monday the 3rd of February, and the morning of Tuesday the 4th Feb.

We are taking the issue of inconsistent availability of the […]

]]> b4c5014f434b84b0619816752288f791 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1530 Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:02:04 +0000 ThumbnailMyblog.arts was updated this morning to the latest version of Wordpress.
The interface will look slightly different but the functionality is mostly identical to before, with some improvements. You will see some […]

]]> a6d388e4812b297077d6fd1eb2564dfe admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2014/01/29/thursday-30th-jan-10am-myblog-arts-site-update/ Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:31:41 +0000 Thumbnailmyblog.arts will be offline for approximately one hour from 10am on Thursday 30th January, while the latest Wordpress updates are applied to the site. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Please notify colleagues if […]

]]> 1b290e7c5c91194c0f74ede04c08c8de admin replied to the forum topic Adding Plugins and different themes in the group myblog.arts support http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/groups/myblog-arts-support/forum/topic/adding-plugins-and-different-themes/#post-144 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:44:14 +0000 Hi Andrew and Valerie,
We periodically add new themes, often in response to requests from users. If you have a suggestion, let me know. However, the more we add, the more there are to maintain, and we have […]

]]> 0 59ec14d211ee318ad4985a6f95c63da5 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2014/01/14/myblog-arts-maintenance-complete/ Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:39:30 +0000 Updates were made to the web server hosting myblog.arts on Tuesday 14th January 2014.
Thanks for your patience while the service was offline.
If you experience any issues since the updates were made please […]

]]> c8654f1867b4eefa064363cd08dfff31 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2014/01/09/scheduled-maintenance-tuesday-14th-january/ Thu, 09 Jan 2014 10:30:21 +0000 Service offline for maintenance
The myblog.arts service is scheduled to be offline on Tuesday 14th January while essential maintenance is carried out on the service.
Please notify any colleagues who use the […]

]]> f9392390772a5543eb6344e46377b95e admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/12/05/myblog-arts-outages/ Thu, 05 Dec 2013 10:44:35 +0000 myblog.arts was unavailable this morning for approximately one hour. This is one in a series of recent occasional outages. We are working towards building a more reliable service and hope to implement changes to […]

]]> 19ef3048cc8b75fd399ca522aa3b2e42 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/12/04/myblog-arts-more-mobile-friendly/ Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:19:13 +0000 ThumbnailThe 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 […]

]]> d2f84d14a6c1dbd2c69fdf7bc6808885 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/11/04/theme-fixes/ Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:39:33 +0000 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 […]

]]> a03d8d4f0ac348ecbac60d588f4bfe6d admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/10/31/myblog-arts-updated/ Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:02:05 +0000 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 […]

]]> 44acebed32194026ec74f818054f563a admin commented on the post, New myblog.arts feature - Bulk Add Users to a Blog from a Moodle Course, on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/09/23/new-myblog-arts-feature-bulk-add-users-to-a-blog-from-a-moodle-course/#comment-1272 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 08:27:47 +0000 Hi Silvia,
Not as yet – though you can invite users individually to a group if they are already members of myblog.arts.
Another option which might work for you is to set up the group to have a group blog, then […]

]]> 33bc53511d986d5c0db423ef4210a264 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/09/30/more-than-5000-members/ Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:56:07 +0000 It’s nice to see that we now have more than 5000 members who have signed up to the myblog.arts site since it started running. We are expecting that number to rapidly increase this year due to the new Batch Add UAL […]

]]> 6449a6760af2f62e9ee602659314303e admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/09/23/new-myblog-arts-feature-bulk-add-users-to-a-blog-from-a-moodle-course/ Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:42:27 +0000 ThumbnailStaff 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 […]

]]> 03c4a73dbdd6ab25ad7761ff95a1fa49 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/09/02/down-time-last-weekend/ Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:38:16 +0000 Unfortunately the myblog.arts service was unavailable over the weekend of the 31st August. We are investigating the causes of this. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

– myblog.arts team

]]> 0213c1f9011107b6b28ad86031cae503 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/07/03/twitter-again/ Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:09:23 +0000 Thumbnail

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 […]

]]> 833ef05a2d425194de4463d73b58868c admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/07/03/mailchimp-plugin/ Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:37:23 +0000 ThumbnailMailChimp 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 […]

]]> 89b46922360ed090d82b184f9f0f1556 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/06/26/twitter-widgets/ Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:01:59 +0000 ThumbnailTwitter 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 […]

]]> 01973baff6c8caad4f13b08d2a5ac8bf admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/06/11/profile-information-and-privacy-update/ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:49:38 +0000 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 […]

]]> 41ed0310a1c639b7d8565d24a69f2ef8 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/06/11/avatars/ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:04:44 +0000 ThumbnailSome of the user and group avatars were unavailable recently – they should be visible now. Please refresh your browser if you are not seeing the avatars displaying.

]]> 79c27f8efc228cfe094f0fb6b7b41953 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/05/15/themes-updated/ Wed, 15 May 2013 15:45:56 +0000 The Delicate, Responsive and zBench themes were updated to the most recent versions.

]]> b4dce209119bd9ba6ca89e3a98c6b750 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/05/14/recent-outages-update/ Tue, 14 May 2013 13:05:10 +0000 The myblog.arts service was unavailable last night and for some of this morning. This was due to the site being flooded with login attempts from unauthorised users. We have taken steps to prevent this, and will be […]

]]> 353403385753615d4f6ee128ef4de4ab admin changed their profile picture https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/64726/ Tue, 14 May 2013 12:54:44 +0000 0 ffd3d2768d6aec89e7e9052afbfa6a14 admin changed their profile picture https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/64704/ Tue, 14 May 2013 12:53:42 +0000 0 7fd8779966c846b7201a3b1a72e550b5 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/05/14/service-unavailability/ Tue, 14 May 2013 06:58:43 +0000 The myblogs service was unavailable overnight last night – we apologise for any inconvenience caused, and are taking ongoing action to improve the availability of the service.

-myblog.arts team

]]> 0df5cf3e34429d227adc10a43f5ae737 admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/05/03/garbage-collection-emails/ Fri, 03 May 2013 09:57:42 +0000 If you received some emails from the blogs  service recently about  Garbage  Collection, please ignore them.  They were sent in error to users instead of the site administrator.  Garbage  Collection refers here to […]

]]> 1d0401719b2b773a29896ed11c83048d admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/04/03/blogs-archived/ Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:09:29 +0000 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 […]

]]> 0ab9b3667c6b4712203252be28ade22a admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/03/21/fixes-to-blog-creation/ Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:52:31 +0000 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 […]

]]> 0c59c113bf75720b6892c7dfcaadaddf admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/03/16/myblog-arts-maintenance/ Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:46:17 +0000 The myblog.arts service continues to be unavailable for occasional short periods at the moment. We apologise for the inconvenience and appreciate users’ ongoing patience. Please write your work in a separate word […]

]]> da0a5765dd3a19b00a55c59c7301022c admin wrote a new post on the site myblog http://myblog.arts.ac.uk/2013/03/14/myblog-arts-availability/ Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:33:13 +0000 Apologies for the outage on the myblog.arts service this morning. We are continuing to work on the reliability of the service. In the meantime, some minor features of the service may be switched off.

Thanks for […]

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