Myblog.arts updated

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 features, listed here: http://wordpress.org/news/2013/08/oscar/ Many of the themes also received updates. If you experience any problems with the myblog.arts platform, or particular […]

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Twitter again

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 involved than it used to be. You are required to have a Twitter account and set […]

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Twitter widgets

Twitter 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 will look at alternatives and hope to provide a new widget soon. EDIT: a previous solution posted here was […]

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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 […]

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Adding users to your blog more easily

It’s now a little bit easier to add other myblog.arts users to your blog, should you wish them to be co-contributors. In your Dashboard, click on Users -> All Users, then on the ‘Add Existing’ button. If you start typing in the box, suggestions of usernames will appear automatically. You can create a whole list […]

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Update – Image Optimisation

Now when you upload large images to your blog on myblog.arts, the image file you uploaded is replaced with the ‘Large-size’ version that WordPress automatically generates. This should save you disk space and help your blog pages to load more quickly. So, if you upload an image directly from your digital camera, which is for […]

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