Author: Stephanie
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Outage for blog.ryerson.ca on November 7, 2019.
blog.ryerson.ca will be unavailable on Thursday November 7, from 1 to 2 a.m. for maintenance.
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Important changes to blog.ryerson.ca
blog.ryerson.ca is now hosted outside of Ryerson On August 20, 2019, Ryerson’s WordPress network, blog.ryerson.ca, was moved from local campus servers to an external provider that hosts servers in Canada. No visible impact to your blog sites Your blog site has the same web address (URL) and content as it had prior to the move.…
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Extended outage for blog.ryerson.ca on August 20 – 21, 2019
blog.ryerson.ca will be unavailable from 5 a.m. on Tuesday, August 20 until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, August 21 for maintenance on our hosting platform. Blogs hosted on blog.ryerson.ca will not be available to visit nor update during this outage. Updates: August 23 AM: We believe that the bulk of the login issues have been resolved.…
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Upgrade to WordPress 5.2.2 August 09, 2019
On Friday, August 9 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., we will be upgrading blog.ryerson.ca to version 5.2.2, “Jaco”. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage. WordPress 5.2.2 “Jaco” This upgrade doesn’t introduce many visible changes, instead focusing on improvements to the behind-the-scenes site health features for the network administrator, accessibility and…
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WordPress not available July 12, 2019 6 a.m.
On Friday, July 12 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., blog.ryerson.ca will be unavailable due to system maintenance. During this time, blog creators and visitors may not be able to access their sites. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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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.…