The blog.torontomu.ca site was unavailable from approximately 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 23, 2025 until approximately 7:50 a.m. on Friday, January 24, 2025.
The unexpected outage was caused by a plugin and we have remediated the issue.
We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.
On Friday, January 31 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., blog.torontomu.ca will be updated. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.
This upgrade has a new default theme: Twenty Twenty-Five. Users now have the ability to zoom out in Site Editor to get a broader view of their content, override theme default fonts in Styles, and create dynamic content by connecting blocks and custom fields without code.
Find out more about this upgrade on wordpress.org.
As always, a broad range of tests will be conducted to ensure the upgrade doesn’t negatively impact the blogs on blog.torontomu.ca.
Unfortunately, not all combinations of plugins, themes and content types can be tested in advance of the upgrade. If any issues related to the upgrade come to light, they will be added to the bottom of this post.
After the upgrade is complete, please contact us if you have any issues with areas of your site that worked prior to the update.
No issues specific to this upgrade have been found yet.
If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.
On Friday, January 31 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., blog.torontomu.ca will be updated. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.
This upgrade has a new default theme: Twenty Twenty-Five. Users now have the ability to zoom out in Site Editor to get a broader view of their content, override theme default fonts in Styles, and create dynamic content by connecting blocks and custom fields without code.
Find out more about this upgrade on wordpress.org.
As always, a broad range of tests will be conducted to ensure the upgrade doesn’t negatively impact the blogs on blog.torontomu.ca.
Unfortunately, not all combinations of plugins, themes and content types can be tested in advance of the upgrade. If any issues related to the upgrade come to light, they will be added to the bottom of this post.
After the upgrade is complete, please contact us if you have any issues with areas of your site that worked prior to the update.
No issues specific to this upgrade have been found yet.
If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.
On Friday, January 31 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., blog.torontomu.ca will be updated. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.
This upgrade has a new default theme: Twenty Twenty-Five. Users now have the ability to zoom out in Site Editor to get a broader view of their content, override theme default fonts in Styles, and create dynamic content by connecting blocks and custom fields without code.
Find out more about this upgrade on wordpress.org.
As always, a broad range of tests will be conducted to ensure the upgrade doesn’t negatively impact the blogs on blog.torontomu.ca.
Unfortunately, not all combinations of plugins, themes and content types can be tested in advance of the upgrade. If any issues related to the upgrade come to light, they will be added to the bottom of this post.
After the upgrade is complete, please contact us if you have any issues with areas of your site that worked prior to the update.
No issues specific to this upgrade have been found yet.
If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.
On Friday, January 31 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., blog.torontomu.ca will be updated. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.
This upgrade has a new default theme: Twenty Twenty-Five. Users now have the ability to zoom out in Site Editor to get a broader view of their content, override theme default fonts in Styles, and create dynamic content by connecting blocks and custom fields without code.
Find out more about this upgrade on wordpress.org.
As always, a broad range of tests will be conducted to ensure the upgrade doesn’t negatively impact the blogs on blog.torontomu.ca.
Unfortunately, not all combinations of plugins, themes and content types can be tested in advance of the upgrade. If any issues related to the upgrade come to light, they will be added to the bottom of this post.
After the upgrade is complete, please contact us if you have any issues with areas of your site that worked prior to the update.
No issues specific to this upgrade have been found yet.
If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.
On Friday, January 31 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., blog.torontomu.ca will be updated. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.
This upgrade has a new default theme: Twenty Twenty-Five. Users now have the ability to zoom out in Site Editor to get a broader view of their content, override theme default fonts in Styles, and create dynamic content by connecting blocks and custom fields without code.
Find out more about this upgrade on wordpress.org.
As always, a broad range of tests will be conducted to ensure the upgrade doesn’t negatively impact the blogs on blog.torontomu.ca.
Unfortunately, not all combinations of plugins, themes and content types can be tested in advance of the upgrade. If any issues related to the upgrade come to light, they will be added to the bottom of this post.
After the upgrade is complete, please contact us if you have any issues with areas of your site that worked prior to the update.
No issues specific to this upgrade have been found yet.
If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.
We’re excited to introduce you to Sa11y, the accessibility quality assurance assistant! Sa11y works as a simple in-page checker that visually highlights common accessibility and usability issues. Geared towards content authors, Sa11y straightforwardly identifies errors or warnings at the source with a simple tooltip on how to fix them.
Before using this tool, we strongly encourage you to review some content accessibility basics.
View an overview and demo of how Sa11y works.
Sa11y is enabled by default for all TMU blog owners and content editors. No installation necessary. Sa11y appears in Preview mode on all pages where a logged-in user has permissions to edit the page.
Although Sa11y works out-of-the-box, you can use the Advanced Settings page to customize the experience for website authors and adapt Sa11y to your theme. Learn how to customize the Advanced Settings.
If you are experiencing issues with your blog or theme and need to temporarily disable the plugin, you can do so within the Admin dashboard.
If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.
On Friday, January 31 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., blog.torontomu.ca will be updated. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.
This upgrade has a new default theme: Twenty Twenty-Five. Users now have the ability to zoom out in Site Editor to get a broader view of their content, override theme default fonts in Styles, and create dynamic content by connecting blocks and custom fields without code.
Find out more about this upgrade on wordpress.org.
As always, a broad range of tests will be conducted to ensure the upgrade doesn’t negatively impact the blogs on blog.torontomu.ca.
Unfortunately, not all combinations of plugins, themes and content types can be tested in advance of the upgrade. If any issues related to the upgrade come to light, they will be added to the bottom of this post.
After the upgrade is complete, please contact us if you have any issues with areas of your site that worked prior to the update.
No issues specific to this upgrade have been found yet.
If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.
On Friday, March 24 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., blog.torontomu.ca will be updated. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.
This upgrade includes improvements to the way we create and manage content, organization of the features in the WordPress interface, improvements in accessibility, and other minor improvements .
Find out more about this upgrade on wordpress.org.
As always, a broad range of tests will be conducted to ensure the upgrade doesn’t negatively impact the blogs on blog.torontomu.ca.
Unfortunately, not all combinations of plugins, themes and content types can be tested in advance of the upgrade. If any issues related to the upgrade come to light, they will be added to the bottom of this post.
After the upgrade is complete, please contact us if you have any issues with areas of your site that worked prior to the update.
No issues specific to this upgrade have been found yet.
If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.
January 11 Update
The next time you log in to your blog, your email address in the blog.torontomu.ca network will automatically update to @torontomu.ca.
There are two upcoming changes related to the university’s new email addresses that impact the blog.torontomu.ca network.
The university’s email addresses will change from @ryerson.ca to @torontomu.ca between December 26 and 28, 2022.
During this transition, the email notifications from the blog.torontomu.ca network may not work as expected. This may prevent you from receiving emails when people comment on your posts, along with other emails sent from the blog system. The email notifications will work as expected once the transition has completed.
On January 11, 2023, we will update the authentication system on blog.torontomu.ca.
The next time you log in to your blog after January 11, your email address in the blog.torontomu.ca network will automatically update to @torontomu.ca.
If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.