On Friday, November 6, 2026 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.
WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou”
This upgrade streamlines your workflow with a persistent admin bar and built-in responsive styling tools that eliminate the need for custom CSS. A dedicated media editor introduces fine-grained cropping, rotation, flip controls, and metadata editing directly within your site. Collaboration is simplified through rich text Notes with @mentions that can be dropped anywhere on the page. Plus, new Playlist and Tabs blocks, alongside a custom Icon block API, give you greater flexibility without needing extra plugins.
Found out more about this upgrade on wordpress.org.
How will my blog be impacted?
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.
Known issues after this WordPress upgrade
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.