Author: Steph
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WordPress outage April 12, 2019
On Friday, April 12 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., the blog.ryerson.ca network will be undergoing maintenance, requiring an outage of at least 1 hour. How will my blog be impacted? We do not anticipate any impact to the individual blogs on the network, as we are not changing the WordPress interface itself. As always,…
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Upgrade to WordPress 5.1 March 22, 2019
On Friday, March 22 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., we will be upgrading blog.ryerson.ca to version 5.1, “Betty”. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage. WordPress 5.1 “Betty” This upgrade doesn’t introduce many visible changes, instead focusing on improvements to the post/page editor, as well as some behind-the-scenes site health features…
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Gutenberg – the new post editor for WordPress
WordPress was recently upgraded to version 5.0.3 on blog.ryerson.ca. With this upgrade came a new editor for posts and pages, known as ‘Gutenberg’. Since August, blog administrators have been able to activate a Gutenberg plugin for their blog, to give them a preview of what was coming. In this post, we will cover some of…
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Upgrade to WordPress 5.0 February 15, 2019
On Friday, February 15 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., we will be upgrading blog.ryerson.ca to version 5.0, “Bebo”. During this time, the system will not be available. Welcome to ‘Gutenberg’ Last year, we announced that a new way of editing posts – a block editor called ‘Gutenberg’ – would be coming soon. WordPress 5.0…
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blog.ryerson.ca: Outage December 18
On Tuesday, December 18 from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., we will be upgrading the version of PHP that runs on blog.ryerson.ca. During this time, the system will not be available. UPDATE December 5: Please note that this upgrade will not include an update to WordPress 5.0. This will be scheduled for the new year.…
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Announcing a new way of authoring posts: Gutenberg
If you’ve logged into blog.ryerson.ca lately, to edit your blog, you may have noticed a new announcement from the WordPress team about a new feature called ‘Gutenberg’. 2019 UPDATE: We will be upgrading to WordPress version 5.0 (with the Gutenberg block editor) on Friday, February 15, 2019.
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blog.ryerson.ca Outage planned for Friday, May 11
A brief outage of blog.ryerson.ca is required on Friday, May 11 from 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. for system maintenance. Access to the blogs on this network will not be available during this time.
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Upgrade to blog.ryerson.ca on Friday, December 01, 2017 – WordPress 4.9, ‘Tipton’
blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 4.9 on Friday, December 01, 2017 between 6:00am and 8:00am. blog.ryerson.ca users, and visitors to your sites, may experience a brief outage during this time. This upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates. For more information, see: https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/tipton/. Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade…
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Upgrade on Friday, July 14, 2017 – blog.ryerson.ca to upgrade to WordPress 4.8, ‘Evans’
blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 4.8 on Friday, July 14, 2017 between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. blog.ryerson.ca users, and visitors to your sites, may experience a brief outage during this time. This upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates. Details can be found here. Please report any problems you may…
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Problems reported during file upload – Resolved
Some blog.ryerson.ca users reported problems uploading images to their blog sites between April 6 and 13, 2017. We believe that the issue only impacted users who were posting from off-campus on Mac devices. Our security team applied a fix on Thursday, April 13, which we believe has resolved this issue. As usual, if you experience…