Boston University Blogs

The Access Control Lists (ACL) plugin will be updated tomorrow morning before business hours.  This is a relatively small update that includes some interface improvements.  Here is what you may notice changing:

• When you’re editing a page, or creating a new page, usage tips will only appear when the “Restrict access to this group” box is checked.
• You will now be able to add anonymous web accounts to your list of users, however you will asked to confirm this action before it is added to the list.
• Groups containing class IDs will now properly display all of their class IDs when editing the group.
• If you have more than ten users in your user list, it will now be paginated.  Users are added and removed just as they were before, however large user lists are now conveniently broken down across pages.  You may use the search field below the user list to find the page containing a specific username.

posted in BU Blogs News on 04.12.2010 at 2:50 pm

The blogs.bu.edu service will be taken down for brief maintenance on Thursday, March 18th, from 5:00 AM to 5:15 AM.  Please let us know if you have any questions.

posted in BU Blogs News on 03.17.2010 at 2:10 pm

The blogs.bu.edu service was restored at approximately 7:30am this morning after the scheduled database maintenance was completed. Let us know if you have any questions!

posted in BU Blogs News on 08.26.2009 at 7:37 am

The blogs service will be unavailable on Wednesday August 26th from 7am until approximately 7:30am. During this time we will be performing database maintenance.

posted in BU Blogs News on 08.24.2009 at 5:08 pm

Service to blogs.bu.edu was restored at approximately 7:48AM on Wednesday August 12th. Upgrading took a little longer than we expected! We apologize for any inconvenience.

WordPress and Buddypress have both been upgraded.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or comments.

posted in BU Blogs News on 08.12.2009 at 7:51 am

The BU Blogs service will be unavailable on Wednesday August 12th from 7am until approximately 7:30am. During this period we will be upgrading to the latest version of WordPress.

posted in BU Blogs News on 08.11.2009 at 8:00 am

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