blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 4.0 on Friday, October 3, 2014 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.
Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Benny”?

• Media manager given a grid layout
• embeds can now be previewed in the post/page editor ( Check out all of the embeds that WordPress supports.)

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.9.1 on Friday, May 16, 2014 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.
Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Smith”?

• Visual Editor updated to improve speed, accessibility and mobile support, in addition to improved ability to accept content copied from word processing software.
• Drag & drop, and edit images in the post editor
• Preview image galleries in the post editor
• Create audio and video playlists

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.8.1 on Friday, February 07, 2014 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.
Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Parker”?

• a new look and feel to the admin panel and Dashboard
• a new default theme, Twenty Fourteen (see it in action!)

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.7.1 on Friday, December 06, 2013 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

blog.ryerson.ca users and visitors to your sites may experience a brief outage during this time.

This is upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates.
Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Basie”?

• mostly background changes, such as automatic updates for minor releases
• no real interface changes

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.6 on Friday, August 23, 2013 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

This is upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates. Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Green”?

Here are some of the highlights of WordPress 3.6. There are many many more updates that may not be as apparent.

• New Twenty Thirteen theme
• Post locking and improved autosave of posts and pages
• Improved Menu editor

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.5.1 on Friday, February 15, 2012 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

This is upgrade rolls together features from the 3.5 and 3.5.1 releases.

• 3.5 “Elvin” Release Details
• 3.5.1 Release Details

Notable updates include:

• A new Media Library interface from inside a post or page, for uploading media and creating galleries. (See videos below)
• A change in the location of the Privacy settings. They can now be found in the Dashboard under Settings > Reading.
• Security fixes

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

Here are some videos that illustrate the update to the image upload and gallery creation features:

A look at the new Media Library interface:

Creating Image Galleries:

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.4.2 on Friday, September 28, 2012 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

This is upgrade includes mostly security fixes and performance updates. Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.4.1 on Friday, June 29, 2012 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

This is upgrade includes some feature changes, security fixes and performance updates. Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.

What’s New in “Green”?

Twitter Embed

Simply copy the permanent link to any tweet (or tweet conversation) and paste in the HTML source of a WordPress post or page. When published, the tweet(s) will be embedded, adding some visual flair.

We're upgrading http://t.co/bOF0mLaE tomorrow! We're going "Green"! http://t.co/vK968ut1 #blogging #Wordpress #upgrade

— DMP Ryerson (@DMPRyerson) June 28, 2012

Theme Preview

Click on the ‘Customize’ link for the theme enabled in your blog, and you will be brought to a screen that allows you to preview the WordPress-based theme changes (such as title, tagline, link colours, background image, header image, etc). Your changes will only be published to your blog when you click “Save & Publish”

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.3.2 on Friday, April 27, 2012 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

This is primarily a security update, with no visible feature changes. Details can be found here.

Please report any problems you may experience post-upgrade via the form linked on our Contact Us page.