Category Archives: Upgrade

Upgrade to WordPress 6.4 February 23, 2024

On Friday, February 23 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 6.4 “Shirley”

This upgrade has lots of enhancements to the writing experience, with a new Duplicate keyboard shortcut, image previews available in list view, and the ability to merge lists. The Command palette allows you to do more. The Lightbox feature allows visitors to enjoy full-screen, interactive images with a click.

Shirley also comes with a new theme, Twenty Twenty-Four. This is a flexible theme suitable for everyone and comes with many different styles out of the box.

Find 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.

Upgrade to WordPress 6.3 October 6, 2023

On Friday, February 23 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 6.4 “Shirley”

This upgrade has lots of enhancements to the writing experience, with a new Duplicate keyboard shortcut, image previews available in list view, and the ability to merge lists. The Command palette allows you to do more. The Lightbox feature allows visitors to enjoy full-screen, interactive images with a click.

Shirley also comes with a new theme, Twenty Twenty-Four. This is a flexible theme suitable for everyone and comes with many different styles out of the box.

Find 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.

Upgrade to WordPress 6.2 July 28, 2023

On Friday, February 23 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 6.4 “Shirley”

This upgrade has lots of enhancements to the writing experience, with a new Duplicate keyboard shortcut, image previews available in list view, and the ability to merge lists. The Command palette allows you to do more. The Lightbox feature allows visitors to enjoy full-screen, interactive images with a click.

Shirley also comes with a new theme, Twenty Twenty-Four. This is a flexible theme suitable for everyone and comes with many different styles out of the box.

Find 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.

Upgrade to WordPress 6.1 March 24, 2023

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.

WordPress 6.1 “Misha”

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.


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.

Maintenance Window October 5, 2022

From October 5 at 10:00 p.m until October 6 at 2:00 a.m., blog.ryerson.ca will undergo maintenance. There may be a brief interruption of service during this time.

How will my blog be impacted?

You may experience a disruption of service for up to 5 minutes during this maintenance period.

Once completed, we do not expect any impact to blogs on our network.

If your blog behaves differently after the maintenance, please be sure to let us know right away.


If you have any questions or concerns, please submit an inquiry to the online form found on the Contact Us page.

Upgrade to WordPress 6.0 September 9, 2022.

On Friday, September 9 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., we will be upgrading blog.torontomu.ca to a new version. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.

WordPress 6.0 “Arturo”

This upgrade introduces a number of improvements to the writing experience, block themes, new uses for featured images and more!


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.

Upgrade to WordPress 5.9 March 18, 2022.

On Friday, March 18 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., we will be upgrading blog.ryerson.ca to a new version. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.

WordPress 5.9 “Josephine”

This upgrade, “Josephine“, introduces improvements to block site editing.


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.ryerson.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.

Upgrade to WordPress 5.8 October 15, 2021.

On Friday, October 15 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., we will be upgrading blog.ryerson.ca to a new version. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.

WordPress 5.8 “Tatum”

This upgrade, “Tatum“, introduces block widgets for aiding in page design, duotone filters for colourizing images, a new “Query Loop Block” to display groups of posts and pages… and more.


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.ryerson.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.

Upgrade to WordPress 5.7 June 11, 2021.

On Friday, June 11 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., we will be upgrading blog.ryerson.ca to a new version. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.

WordPress 5.7 “Esperanza”

This upgrade, “Esperanza“, introduces more improvements to the block editor, including full-height alignment, new button layouts and automatic saving of reusable blocks.


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.ryerson.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.

Upgrade to WordPress 5.6 February 05, 2021.

On Friday, February 05 from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., we will be upgrading blog.ryerson.ca to a new version. During this time, blog creators and visitors may experience a brief outage.

WordPress 5.6 “Simone”

This upgrade enhances the block editing experience with new block patterns and layout flexibility. This release also comes with a new theme, Twenty Twenty-One.


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.ryerson.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.