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Upgrades galore! 23 Dec 2012 | 12:20 am
I finally got around to upgrading the software used by our humble blogging platform. I had to buy a new subscription to the plugin that we use to connect to the database, but that’s well worth it. We’...
WordPress updated to 3.2 6 Jul 2011 | 06:37 am
There’s a whole bunch of updatey goodness in the latest version of WordPress – including a revamped and prettified Dashboard interface. UCalgaryBlogs.ca got updated to 3.2 this morning, so you should ...
new feature: avatars for authors of posts 9 Oct 2010 | 04:30 am
When using a blog site for a class discussion, it can be nice to display an image of the author of a blog post, so it’s easier to see who’s “talking.” Previously, doing this involved hacking code into...
New feature: post excerpts on archives 22 Sep 2010 | 04:45 am
On an active blog site used in a course, the archives pages can get a little unwieldy. To help manage that, I just added a new plugin called “Auto Excerpt” – if you enable it on your blog site, it wil...
minor issue with text display 9 Sep 2010 | 05:39 am
During the move to the new server, it looks like some of the WordPress configuration may have altered, causing some text to be displayed oddly. I’m currently working on a fix for this, and will post a...
UCalgaryBlogs is moving 28 Aug 2010 | 07:59 am
The move is happening right now – the data was moved to our own database server long ago, and the files have now been moved to the new webserver. Once the DNS updates have been sent out, we’ll be offi...
Importing users to your site 27 Aug 2010 | 06:45 am
I’ve just enabled a new and powerful plugin for batch-adding users to a blog. It’s much simpler than the previous one, and only requires the email addresses for people to be added to your site. On an...
Upgraded to WordPress 3.0 11 Aug 2010 | 04:41 am
We were finally able to upgrade the software that runs UCalgaryBlogs.ca to the shiny new WordPress 3.0. There are a lot of minor tweaks to the interface that should make the service easier to use. Th...
Now requiring @ucalgary.ca email addresses for new accounts 22 Apr 2010 | 05:33 am
One of the initial goals behind setting up a blogging platform was that it should be possible for anonymous or pseudonymous blogging – the ability for people to create accounts that aren’t tied to the...
redesign for UCalgaryBlogs 16 Dec 2009 | 10:30 am
There have been a bunch of changes, hopefully improvements, over the last few days. The BuddyPress “social networking layer” was turned off. It didn’t look like anyone was actually using it, and it w...
