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WordPress Maintenance 5/4 8am

On Wednesday 4 May between 8 and 10 am WordPress will be updated to a new version. During the upgrade, there will be times when your blog may not be available, or may appear to be missing features.

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WordPress Maintenance 4/13 8am

On Wednesday 13 April between 8 and 9 am WordPress will be updated to a new version. During the upgrade, there will be times when your blog may not be available, or may appear to be missing features.

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Weaver Theme Available

A new theme, Weaver, is now available. It is highly customizable and gives you access to some of the CSS. The theme also has built-in documentation on how to use it, under Appearance–>Weaver Admin–>Help.

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New Admin Bar

You have probably noticed the new Admin Bar at the top of your blog. This feature is new with version 3.1 of WordPress. It gives you quick access to a number of features, such as writing a new post or page, going to the Widgets sub-panel, going to the Dashboard, or switching between blogs if you have access permission for more than one.

You can choose to have the Admin Bar appear when you’re viewing your blog, in the Dashboard, neither, or both. To change your settings, edit your profile either by going to Users–>My Profile, or selecting Edit My Profile from the drop-down under the name of your blog on the far left in the Admin Bar itself.

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Image Widget

The new Image Widget plugin will allow you to place an image with optional title and caption in your sidebar. You can resize and align the image and link it, all without knowing any HTML.

Activate Image Widget in the Plugins area of your dashboard.

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Subscribe-by-Email Widget

A new Subscribe by Email widget is now available. If you put it in one of your blog’s widget areas, people will be able to subscribe to your blog and receive copies of your posts via email.

If you want to control who subscribes to your blog, instead of using the widget, you can add/remove subscribers via the new Subscriptions item at the bottom of your dashboard’s Admin Menu.

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New Anti-Spam Plugin

A new plugin has been installed to help protect your blogs from comment spam. Anyone leaving a comment will be required to answer a simple math problem before their comment will be accepted. In order to activate this for your blog, go to your dashboard and select Block Spam by Math in Settings and then select Comment Forms at the bottom.

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New themes available

Four new themes are now available at Columbia Blogs: Blue Moon, Blue Green, ChaoticSoul, and Connections.

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Vigilance Themes Deprecated

The Vigilance and Vigilance Pro themes have issues with the new version of WordPress that we are running now. If you are using one of these themes (there are only a couple of you), can you please switch to a different theme? We will be in touch with each of you directly after the fist of the year.

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New Themes Available

The following themes are now available: Carrington Blog, BuddyPress Scholar, WPMU Nelo, and WPMU Triden. All of these themes can be customized via the Appearance panel.

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