Blogs will be down briefly this evening between the hours of 5 and 6 for an urgent software upgrade.

Web Strategies has upgraded College of Charleston Blogs to WordPress 2.8. You should not see any significant differences between WordPress 2.7 and 2.8 as we’ve seen in some previous upgrades. 2.8 mostly adds some refinements and allows us to provide more up-to-date themes and feature enhancements.

Please let us know in comments or via email to webmaster@cofc.edu if you encounter any difficulties with your blog….

The next time you log into your WordPress blog, things will look quite a bit different.  We’ve applied WordPress 2.7 to blogs.cofc.edu, which enables a far greater array of themes and features, especially down the road.  WordPress 2.7 also brings about significant changes in the design of the administration panel.  Fortunately, the mechanics are very much the same.

First, your dashboard will be far more useful. You can now see pending comments, site announcements, and much more right within the dashboard.

Your posting tools are now located in a sidebar along the left rather than in tabs on top like before.  This left sidebar does a better job of grouping related tools than previous versions of WordPress, making posting and other tools easier to find.

If you run into trouble or have any questions, please contact webmaster@cofc.edu.