Comments being held for moderation
Update @ 13:45 Mon Mar 21st 2022: Akismet has now been returned to full functionality. However, any comments that have been held for moderation for the past few days will remain in the moderation queue, you will still manually need to approve those comments.
WordPress 5.9.2
UBC Blogs has been updated to WordPress version 5.9.2.
WordPress 5.9.1
WordPress on UBC Blogs has been updated to version 5.9.1.
Weekly jQuery Migrate Status Update Email
Over the weekend, many of you will have received an email with a subject of “Weekly jQuery Migrate Status Update”. It is an email telling you that it’s a “weekly summary of the warnings still present on your site“. These emails are legitimate – so not a phishing attempt – but they are annoying, especially […]
UBC Blogs has been updated to WordPress 4.7 “Vaughan”
From: https://wordpress.org/news/2016/12/vaughan/ Version 4.7 of WordPress, named “Vaughan” in honor of legendary jazz vocalist Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. New features in 4.7 help you get your site set up the way you want it. Enjoy and Happy Holidays! -UBC Blogs Team
UBC Blogs updated to 4.2.2
WordPress 4.2.2 fixes a cross-site scripting vulnerability contained in an HTML file shipped with recent Genericons packages included in the Twenty Fifteen theme as well as a number of popular plugins by removing the file. The release also includes hardening for a potential cross-site scripting vulnerability when using the Visual editor. In addition to the […]
How do I add a user updated
Adding Students to Your Course Blog updated. See the update now >
Adding Students to Your Course Blog
Adding Students to Your Course Blog documentation updated. See the update >
French Language Support
This was long overdue but UBC Blogs now has the french language translation files enabled. To enable this on your blog goto Settings-> General -> Site Language Currently the following themes have translation files (more to come): TwentyTen TwentyEleven Responsive *Not all plugin and themes have multi language support so milage may very but if you […]
How-To Change attribution for a post
For those with multi author blogs who would like to change which of the authors on your blog is given attribution for a post, this video will show you how.