myblog.arts was unavailable this morning for approximately one hour. This was one in a series of recent occasional outages. We are working towards building a more reliable service and hope to implement changes to the hosting arrangments for myblog.arts soon. News about updates will be posted here and on the CLTAD twitter feed. Please note, […]
Tag: maintenance
Service unavailability
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 […]
Blogs archived
All blogs which haven’t been updated since the start of April 2011 (two years ago) have been archived.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 elearning-support@arts.ac.uk. Archived sites will be deleted in due course if users don’t get in touch with us about them. […]
myblog.arts update issues
In a small number of cases, since the last update to the blog service, links to some blog pages may be broken. To fix this please log into your blog’s Dashboard, go to Settings -> Permalinks and click on ‘Save Changes’. You don’t need to change the Permalinks settings, just click Save Changes. This should […]
myblog.arts update, 4th Feb 2013
myblog.arts was updated this morning to the most recent versions of WordPress and Buddypress. Various plugins and themes were also updated. Here are some of the benefits of the update: New default theme, ‘Twenty Twelve’, which works well on mobile devices and on the desktop. New customisation options for themes, including choosing arbitrary header image […]
Site maintenance notes
The front page of myblog.arts was unavailable on the morning of Sunday 20th January. Apologies to those who tried to access the site at that time. We are taking steps to try to prevent a repeat of this issue. Individual users’ blogs were not affected. As a side note, all user data on myblog.arts is […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
Site offline – morning of 10th November
The myblog.arts site will be offline between 8am and 9am on Wednesday the 10th of November, due to maintenance work on the web server. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. […]