Category: Upgrade
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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…
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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”…
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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…
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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…
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Upgrade to WordPress 5.5 October 16, 2020.
On Friday, October 16 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 5.5 “Eckstine” This upgrade introduces lazy image loading, and improvements to the block editor, including accessibility enhancements and new block patterns. How will…
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Upgrade to WordPress 5.4 May 29, 2020.
On Friday, May 29 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 5.4 “Adderley” This upgrade includes improvements to the block editor, including accessibility enhancements and two new blocks for adding social icons and buttons.…
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Upgrade to WordPress 5.3 January 31, 2020.
On Friday, January 31 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 5.3 “Kirk” This upgrade includes improvements to the block editor, including accessibility enhancements and a new “group” block for combining blocks into their own unit.…
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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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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…