Possible Downtime: Thursday, March 17th
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 you have been warned.
More on the substance of the updates to come…
Can’t keep a good blog down
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.
New Plugins
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 good for course blogs.
- Add Users—same as previous, except visitors can add themselves as users to your blog. Also good for course blogs.
- Lightbox 2 (replaces Litebox Plugin)—automatically makes image links on your blog use a lightbox
- More Privacy Options—adds additional levels of privacy to your blog that allow you to limit who can see your blog. You can access these new options in Settings > Privacy.
- Widget Context—adds additional options to widgets that allow you to control what pages they display on
New Themes
Last week, we got a few more themes onto Longwood Blogs for your blogging enjoyment:
Agregado and Greyzed themes also received some small updates. Look for some more themes and plugins soon.
Blogs page is now scalable
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!
Blogs Project Progress
- 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.
- WordPress has been updated to version 3.0.1.
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