We have been running the current Blogs and Podcasts system for 18months now and it is ready for an update. This update will involve an outage where the system will be unavailable (Thursday, 23 June 2011 from 8.30am till 5pm) to staff and students. Most of the changes will be happening behind the scenes so there is no need to worry about ‘everything changing‘. There are a couple of changes/new features you might notice:
- The My Blogs tab in the Dashboard will now be called My Sites
- Now you will be able to create navigation menus yourself – no more having to deal with alphabetical order when you don’t want to. You will find this in the Appearances menu of your dashboard, and there is an easy widget you can use to apply it to your site.
- All logged in users will now have an Admin Bar at the top of all pages – this allows quick access to various sections of the dashboard (add posts, add podcasts, change themes, view your profile etc). This bar can be turned off in your profile if you do not want to use it.
New Admin Bar
We apologise for the inconvenience of the outage and hope the new features will be useful to everyone.
