We have recently migrated the MyBlog service to new infrastructure. The go-live on the new servers was Thurs 7 Feb 0900 (approx). Since the migration we have been experiencing periods of downtime caused by the MyBlog database being corrupted. Symptoms include: The homepage not being available: The root level site becomes corrupted after which browsers […]
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Thursday 30th Jan, 10am – myblog.arts site update
myblog.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 you think they may be affected. – myblog.arts team […]
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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 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. […]
Creating accounts – new option
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. […]
Recent pics
Recent pictures now appear on the front page as well as extracts from recent text. Looking good on the Mac – haven’t tested it on PC yet. Let me know if it’s not displaying properly! […]