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WordPress 3.6 2 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
The University blogs network has been upgraded, and now runs on WordPress version 3.6. Amongst other things, the upgrade most notably delivers the following features and enhancements: A new theme, T...
Jetpack and other plugins 19 Jul 2013 | 12:39 pm
Recently, you may have noticed that the number of plugins available to you has been much reduced. This is because of the 70+ plugins that had been installed at the request of staff and students over t...
Auto-post from your blog to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn 7 Mar 2013 | 01:27 am
A very common question about the blogs from both staff and students is how can you automatically share your new blog posts with Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn? There is currently no way to do this sim...
New WordPress guide 16 Jan 2013 | 02:00 pm
Joel Murray, working in the College of Social Science, has produced a WordPress Guide for Research Groups. It’s a useful and comprehensive guide for anyone using WordPress at Lincoln. Please send any ...
A new look, group forums and richer profiles 14 Mar 2012 | 02:17 am
Why WordPress? We’ve been running WordPress at the university since 2008 and were the first university in the UK (in the world??) to implement BuddyPress, the social network that runs on top of the W...
Using the university blogs on your mobile 21 Oct 2010 | 06:09 pm
We’ve just added a mobile theme to the university blogs social network. This means that all of the social networking features, such as member profiles, the activity stream, groups and messaging are no...
New public profiles 27 Mar 2010 | 07:26 pm
The social networking layer of the university blogs, is now public. This follows a recent email to all staff and students who are using the university blogs, which recommended that you update your pro...
Embedding video is now much easier 4 Mar 2010 | 10:14 pm
A recent upgrade to WordPress introduced oEmbed, a new and easier way to embed video and some other media in your blog post.Whereas before, You needed to either copy the raw HTML embed code and paste ...
New activity stream 18 Feb 2010 | 12:27 am
The upgrade to BuddyPress, the social networking layer for WordPress, there’s a new default theme and a much improved ‘activity stream‘. It works a bit like Twitter and you can post to different group...
Looking for help with WordPress? 28 Jan 2010 | 03:13 am
If you’re new to WordPress or the University blogs, there are a few ways that you can find help and support. Browse the official documentation for WordPress.com. In most cases, it will apply to your ...
