News & Updates
UBC Blogs will be undergoing planned maintenance at 1am Friday 12th September 2014 and 6AM Friday September 12th 2014. Each instance should last for approximately 30 minutes. Thank you for your patience during these times.
Posted in Announcements, Updates
Yesterday evening, UBC CMS, UBC Blogs and CTLT Events were all updated to version 3.9.2 of WordPress. This release was made by the WordPress security team yesterday and included several security hardening fixes. Further details about the release on https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/
Posted in Development, Updates
UBC Blogs has been updated to 3.9.1 From WordPress.org : This maintenance release fixes 34 bugs in 3.9, including numerous fixes for multisite networks, customizing widgets while previewing themes, and the updated visual editor. We’ve also made some improvements to the new audio/video playlists feature and made some adjustments to improve performance. For a full […]
Posted in Changelog, Updates
WordPress 3.9 “Smith” details here. Enjoy!
Posted in Changelog, Updates
We have disabled XML-RPC across the network. This is is to prevent the UBC Blogs service from becoming a launch pad for DDOS attacks Any WordPress site with Pingback enabled (which is on by default) can be used in DDOS attacks against other sites. Note that XMLRPC is used for pingbacks, trackbacks, remote access via […]
Posted in Updates
Couple new themes added both responsive both clean and modern, so give one of these a go and get rid of your old non responsive theme already! Bushwick inspired by Medium. Bushwick is a lightweight, responsive blogging theme, designed to show beautiful content alongside beautiful imager. *Add a featured image to your post to show […]
Posted in Themes, Updates
Couple new themes added. Both themes are responsive so ditch the old school theme and give your mobile visitors a proper experience. Book Lite One column classic book style blog theme. Fully responsive, large fonts and very easy to read. Clean and Minimalist design with focus entirely on content — Content First. McKinley McKinley is […]
Posted in Announcements, Updates
We’ve added a couple new responsive themes to the mix check them out. Suits For blogs and websites. Sleek design and solid code. Suits make you look good. Features: black, custom-background, custom-header, custom-menu, dark, featured-images, full-width-template, gray, microformats, one-column, right sidebar, threaded-comments, two columns, white Flounder Flounder is a flat, minimally styled theme for bloggers […]
Posted in Announcements, Updates
UBC Blogs has been upgraded to WordPress 3.8 “Parker”. Please see video overview on changed and new functionality. Enjoy! We have also removed a number of outdated themes and plugins due to performance and security issues. If your blog is affected, please contact us (blog.support@ubc.ca) or come to one of our support clinics: http://www.events.ctlt.ubc.ca/events/keyword/wordpress/.
Posted in Announcements, Updates
We have updated UBC Blogs to WordPress 3.6.1 and during the upgrade we also decided to update the look and feel (which had not been refreshed since 2011). From the functional perspective, everything remains the same, except that we are making access to groups and forums slightly less obvious as part of the long term […]
Posted in Announcements, Changelog, Updates
