Boston University Blogs

Now that we have completed the installation of the latest release of WordPress, version 2.7.1, we have begun the following improvements and additions to the service:

1. Ensuring that a disclaimer is automatically added to all student and student organization blogs.  This is required by the General Counsel’s office and is a prerequisite for officially announcing the service.
2. Updating the themes available to publishers.
3. Adding functionality that we’ve built and launched for WordPress websites on www.bu.edu and www.bumc.bu.edu.

We will send announcements as we complete this work.

posted in BU Blogs News on 05.22.2009 at 9:30 am

BuddyPress, a suite of plugins that adds social-networking features to WordPress, has been integrated into BU Blogs. With BuddyPress, you can:

1. Invite other BU bloggers to be your friend.
2. Exchange messages with your friends.
3. View the posting activity of your friends.
4. Create public, private, or hidden groups.
5. View friend requests and pending invitations to join groups.

In BU Blogs, you will see a gray BuddyPress bar at the top of your blog pages. Once you’ve logged into Blogs, you can get access to the new BuddyPress tools in the My Account tab.

posted in BU Blogs News on 05.21.2009 at 4:46 pm

This morning, we updated blogs.bu.edu to run the latest release of WordPress, version 2.7.1.  The administrative interface is new, greatly improved, and will take a bit of time to learn.

posted in BU Blogs News on 05.21.2009 at 11:56 am

Maintenance work was completed and the BU Blogs service was restored at 10 a.m., Thursday, May 21st.

posted in BU Blogs News on 05.21.2009 at 9:59 am

The BU Blogs service will be down on Thursday, May 21th, from 7 – 11 a.m. while Wordpress is upgraded. During this period, your blogs will unavailable and you will not be able to login to your blogs administration system to make any updates. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes you or your users.

posted in BU Blogs News on 05.20.2009 at 9:12 am

Maintenance work was completed and the BU Blogs service was restored at 7:25 a.m., Tuesday, May 19th.

posted in BU Blogs News on 05.19.2009 at 7:27 am

The BU Blogs service will be down on Tuesday, May 19th, from 7 – 8 a.m. for server maintenance. During this period, your blogs will unavailable and you will not be able to login to your blogs administration system to make any updates. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes you or your users.

posted in BU Blogs News on 05.18.2009 at 12:17 pm