Minor upgrades to WordPress with a few new features: Distraction free editing (can be turn off in Screen Options) Improved Site Health Many Block Editor changes
Plugin & Theme Updates
UIT Service Advisory - Central WordPress - scheduled outage on Thursday, October 10th, 2019 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
Please share this information with your teams. An outage is scheduled on the Central WordPress system this coming Thursday, October 10th from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. UIT teams will be conducting various technical upgrades during the scheduled outage window. As a result, browsing and updating of all central WordPress sites will be unavailable during […]
Minor change to 404 error caching
To help accommodate growing traffic patterns we are now caching 404 page errors. For the vast majority of WordPress sites hosted here, there will be no impact. However, if you have moved a page (made it a child of some other page) with out updating links to that page, those links will no longer work […]
What to do with that old website?
UIT will soon begin notifying WordPress administrators who have old/abandoned websites that have not been updated within the past 2 years. Our goal is to remove or at least deactivate all sites that are no longer needed. If you have access to several WordPress sites, you can click on My Sites in the top-left corner […]
WordPress upgraded to Version 5.2.1
WordPress was updated to version 5.2.1 to take advantage of new features and to ensure compatibility with plugins. WordPress 5.2 Field Guide
Broken Link Checker plugin removed
The developers of the Broken Link Checker plugin have not updated it for several years, making the current version partly incompatible with newer versions of WordPress and PHP. Accordingly, we have deactivated and deleted this plugin on our sites. You can still check for broken links using online alternatives mentioned in this article: Why broken […]
Central WordPress publishing scheduled maintenance, Saturday, December 15th, 2018, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Please share this information with your teams. Note that on Saturday, December 15th, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., UIT teams will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Central WordPress Service. The maintenance is necessary to upgrade the WordPress database. During the maintenance window, there will be an interruption of all publishing functions and database […]
WordPress Updated to 4.8.2
WordPress was updated to version 4.8.2 fix a number of security issues and several bugs. See Release Notes for details.
WordPress upgraded to 4.7.5
Upgraded to 4.7.5 to resolve security issues and images-editing issues affecting the latest version of the Google Chrome browser. More information on this release can be found here: https://wordpress.org/news/2017/05/wordpress-4-7-5/
WordPress Updates - October 27, 2016
The following WordPress plugins and themes were updated to their latest version on October 27. If you see any issues related to these upgrades, please contact askit@yorku.ca Updating Plugin AddToAny Share Buttons (1/35) AddToAny Share Buttons updated successfully. Show Details Updating Plugin All In One SEO Pack (2/35) All In One SEO Pack updated […]
