Author Archives: Rebecca Patt

Now you can get to Longwood Blogs from a link on the University’s homepage.  It’s on the right side under “General Quick Links”.

In preparation for a hopeful official launch of Longwood Blogs next week, we’ve applied some updates to further refine the blog system. Unless this is your first time visiting the blogs, you’ll notice a brand new “home blog” look built … Continue reading →

We’ve planned to do some maintenance and updates for Longwood Blogs on Thursday, March 17, 2011.  Albeit most of you bloggers will be on Spring Break then or you might not even notice any downtime, the possibility still exists, so … Continue reading →

The blogs experienced some downtime over the weekend that you may have noticed.  Some important doodads conflicted with our series of tubes, but the good folks in IITS have got it figured out.  You may now resume your blogging.

This week, we have made five new plugins available for use on your blogs.  Here’s a rundown: Add Link—enables a widget that you can use to allow visitors to add their own links to your blog (with password-protection).  This is … Continue reading →

Last week, we got a few more themes onto Longwood Blogs for your blogging enjoyment: ClassRoom Blog Dixie Belle Irresistible Typebased Agregado and Greyzed themes also received some small updates.  Look for some more themes and plugins soon.

We’ve added sort and navigation options to the list of blogs to make it scalable to hundreds of blogs.  So, go forth and create blogs!

Blog platform is now accessible over the Internet. Longwood users still cannot log in and create new blogs themselves, however the functionality exists and is working. 26  blog themes are ready for use with 14 more on the way soon. … Continue reading →

Very likely this will be a place for important site-wide announcements or perhaps a place to highlight interesting blogs with recent activity. I guess we will see! photo: Joe Shlabotnik on flickr

Hi there! This is a test install of WordPress Multi-user. Hopefully we will get this up and running for the Longwood community and get to blogging s0on! photo credit: Cobalt123 on flickr