development – myblog

Outages

Posted on February 28, 2013 (February 28, 2013) by admin

Unfortunately myblog.arts has been offline for short periods twice recently. We are doing work behind the scenes to address this, and will post an update soon. In the meantime, thanks for your patience. – myblog.arts team […]

Updates to member page urls and ‘mention’ names

Posted on September 14, 2011 (September 15, 2011) by admin

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 […]

Google Maps offline… EDIT: working again.

Posted on November 10, 2010 (November 10, 2010) by admin

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. […]

New Group Home Page

Posted on November 3, 2010 by admin

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. […]

Creating accounts – new option

Posted on November 1, 2010 by admin

I added the option when signing up to myblog.arts to just create an account without a blog. This should be useful for tutors and external contributors – people who might want to post to a group blog for example, but don’t need their own blog in the system. […]

Featured Posts plugin

Posted on September 20, 2010 by admin

I’ve added in a ‘Featured Posts’ plugin which allows users to collect selected posts together on one page. This could be useful for those using blogs for assessment or feedback. To enable this feature in your blog, look at Settings -> Featured Posts in your blog’s Dashboard. […]

New themes, fixed comments

Posted on August 31, 2010 (September 1, 2010) by admin

The comments weren’t working – they should be OK now. I added a couple of themes, Imbalance and Paragrams. (Thanks Paul for the tip-off.) They’re intended for image-based blogs. To have a post image feature on the front page of the blog, you will have to select a ‘featured image’ when making a new post. […]

New welcome page

Posted on August 24, 2010 (August 31, 2010) by admin

The welcome page for new bloggers now has information about how to access your blog via the admin bar at the top of the page. Link to welcome page […]