We are upgrading blogs.ed on Thursday the 9th of July.  The service will be unavailable from 10.00am-12.00pm (and at risk until 5pm that day). The upgrade predominately ensures that the core application, plugins and themes stay up-to-date and secure but we are also adding a few new features: Update to WordPress version 5.7.2 Update of […]

We are upgrading blogs.ed on Thursday the 9th of July.  The service will be unavailable from 9.30am-12.30pm (and at risk until 5pm that day). The upgrade predominately ensures that the core application, plugins and themes stay up-to-date and secure but we are also adding a few new features: Update to WordPress version 5.4.2 Notifications to […]

We had planned to add some blog retention management features to blogs.ed in August but we had to postpone these changes. They will now be completed on Monday the 7th of October, between 12-3. There is a service alert for the work but there should be no down-time required to make this change. View our […]

We are making two changes to the blogs.ed.ac.uk platform on the 29th August. The blog search tool is being updated to make it more scalable and performant for the future and we’ve added in some new functionality which implements our blog retention policy and will tidy up accounts and blogs when they are no longer in […]

We are upgrading blogs.ed on Wednesday the 14th of August.  The service will be unavailable from 9.30am-12.30pm (and at risk until 5pm that day). The upgrade predominately ensures that the core application, plugins and themes stay up-to-date and secure but we are also adding a few new features: A new theme (Blask) A plugin to  […]

Since our last update in November, we have been actively searching for ways to improve our service and offer you as many features as possible to complement your blogging adventures. Here are some exciting updates coming Thursday the 23rd of January, including a new theme, two new plugins and some bug fixes:    General News  We […]

Since the launch of the new academic blogging service we’ve been squirreling away behind the scenes adding new plugins and themes to improve our new service. Recently we’ve added the following plugins and themes, which we hope the community will find useful. Plugins: Akismet plugin – checks your comments and contact form submissions against Akismet’s […]