Blogs

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 [...]

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 [...]

Information Technology will be bringing the main datacenter down on Sunday, April 19, 2008, to install new generator power.  This downtime will affect the blog server’s availability for several hours that day.  Please see the Information Technology website for more information.

We’re working on adding Akismet‘s spam protection system this morning.  You’ll see some screens about entering an “API key” in your Dashboard for a little while as we work on this.  You can safely ignore these messages, and they should be gone by tomorrow.