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Upgrade on Friday, May 28, 2016 to WordPress 4.5.2, ‘Coleman’

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 4.5.2 on Friday, May 27, 2016 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.

Alert

Archiving Notice: W2016 Course Blogs

IMPORTANT NOTICE for Winter 2016 Course Blog users (students & instructors):

Now that the term is over, please be sure to back up any data from your course blogs, take screenshots if you want to capture the look & feel of your blog for your CV, etc.

Winter 2016 course blogs will be archived starting in June, and you will no longer have access.

If you have any questions, please use our Contact Form to get in touch. Please be sure to include your blog address.

Blogs that are used for other purposes, and not for a current term course, will not be archived at this time.

Please see this page for details on blog archiving, and the schedule for archiving courses by term.

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Friday, March 11, 2016 – blog.ryerson.ca to upgrade to WordPress 4.4.2, ‘Clifford’

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 4.4.2 on Friday, March 11, 2016 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 “Clifford”?

  • A new default theme, Twenty Sixteen (preview it here!)
  • Responsive Images.
  • New ability to embed WordPress posts into other WordPress posts.


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Friday, October 2, 2015 – blog.ryerson.ca to upgrade to WordPress 4.3.1, ‘Billie’

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 4.3.1 on Friday, October 02, 2015 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 “Billie”?

  • Menu editor in the Customizer.
  • Shortcuts to formatting text in your posts.
  • Site icons, that appear in browser tabs, bookmarks, and on the home screen of mobile devices.
  • Various coding and security fixes.


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Friday, February 6, 2015 – blog.ryerson.ca to upgrade to WordPress 4.1, ‘Dinah’

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 4.1 on Friday, February, 2015 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 “Dinah”?

  • A new default theme, Twenty Fifteen (preview it here!)
  • A ‘distraction-free writing’ mode in the post/page editor.
  • Log out everywhere – make sure you are logged out of your WordPress site in all locations.
  • Vine embeds, by simply pasting a URL onto its own line in a post (similar to current Youtube and Vimeo capability in WordPress).
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Friday, October 3, 2014 – blog.ryerson.ca to upgrade to WordPress 4.0, ‘Benny’

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.)

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Friday, May 16, 2014 – blog.ryerson.ca to upgrade to WordPress 3.9.1, ‘Smith’

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

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Friday, February 07, 2014 – blog.ryerson.ca to upgrade to WordPress 3.8.1, ‘Parker’

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!)

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Friday, December 06, 2013 – blog.ryerson.ca to upgrade to WordPress 3.7.1, ‘Basie’’

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