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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
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Friday, August 23, 2013 – blog.ryerson.ca to upgrade to WordPress 3.6, ‘Oscar’

blog.ryerson.ca will be upgraded to WordPress 3.6 on Friday, August 23, 2013 between 7:00am and 8:00am.

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 “Green”?

Here are some of the highlights of WordPress 3.6. There are many many more updates that may not be as apparent.

  • New Twenty Thirteen theme
  • Post locking and improved autosave of posts and pages
  • Improved Menu editor
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Twitter Plugins UPDATED – Please Read

This summer, the Twitter plugins on blog.ryerson.ca blogs (WordTwit and Tweet Blender) stopped functioning, as they had not been updated by their developers to work with a new Twitter API. We first reported this problem back in June, and have been working to resolve the issue since then.

We are happy to report that both of the plugins we were using have now been updated. If you were using either plugin previously, please see the details below to find out what you need to do in order to re-establish them on your site. Neither plugin will automatically start working again without your intervention.

We apologize for the time it has taken to get everything working again, and are thankful for your ongoing patience.

Twitter Plugin Details:

We’re *finally* back up and running with both of our Twitter plugins.

WordTwit, the plugin used to send a tweet when a new post is published on your blog, has now been updated. If you were using WordTwit previously, you will need to reconfigure the plugin – it will not automatically work. The new Twitter API has some new requirements, so the setup is a little bit more complicated. Instructions are available in the plugin’s own pages – please read them carefully.

Tweet Blender, the plugin we use to display tweets on our blogs, has also been updated. If you were using TweetBlender previously, you will need to go to the “Status” tab in the plugin and re-authenticate Twitter (by entering your username and password).

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Twitter Plugins Not Functioning – UPDATE JUNE 25

You may have noticed that the Twitter plugins on blog.ryerson.ca blogs (WordTwit and Tweet Blender) are no longer functioning.

This is due to a change that Twitter implemented yesterday, retiring their old API (v.1) in favour of a new API (v1.1). Unfortunately, most of the WordPress Twitter plugins still utilize API v.1, and have not yet been updated for v1.1. As such, these plugins have stopped working properly.

We are working to find a solution for blog.ryerson.ca. It is my hope that the developers of the two plugins we use will provide us with quick updates. In the meantime, we have been testing other plugins, in the event that updates aren’t provided soon.

The developers of WordTwit have confirmed that they are working on an update, so we hope to have this plugin updated soon.

We apologize for this inconvenience, and will do our best to ensure this is resolved quickly.

June 13 UPDATE:

WordTwit, the plugin used to send a tweet when a new post is published on your blog, has now been updated. If you were using WordTwit previously, you will need to reconfigure the plugin – it will not automatically work. The new Twitter API has some new requirements, so the setup is a little bit more complicated. Instructions are available in the plugin’s own pages – please read them carefully.

June 25 UPDATE:

The developer of Tweet Blender has recently communicated that an update is in the works, and should be ready sometime next week. We’ll keep you posted!