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University Blog Service

University of Texas at Austin

Welcome to the University Blog Service
The University Blog Service (UBS) is a managed WordPress Multisite platform available for use by current students, faculty, and staff (for non-course related purposes) at The University of Texas at Austin. Sites can be created for individuals, groups, projects, or departments.

Have a question? Service documentation and request form can be found in the UBS service catalog. Alternatively, you can submit a request through ServiceNow by emailing us at help@sites.utexas.edu.

, Filed Under: maintenance, News, Plugin Documentation

Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin has changed ownership from Yoast to MonsterInsights and UBS stewards will be updating to the current iteration on August 9th, 2018.  This change will require that users re-authenticate with Google Analytics in order to continue tracking analytics data on your UBS site.

The updated version of this plugin has been made available in the QUAL environment (https://qual.sites.utexas.edu) for testing.

Instructions to re-authenticate

  • Log in to your site dashboard
  • Open the left hand menu item, “insights” (formerly called “analytics”)
  • Follow the instructions to re-authenticate with Google Analytics

, Filed Under: maintenance

My Custom CSS Plugin Retirement

UBS Stewards have removed the My Custom CSS plugin from availability in favor of the newly introduced Aditional CSS functionality offered as part of WordPress Core.

From WordPress.org: https://codex.wordpress.org/CSS#Custom_CSS_in_WordPress

If you have been using the My Custom CSS Plugin to input your own CSS, these changes have been retained and moved into Customize > Additional CSS. From this interface, you can continue to input your cust CSS stylings with the added benefit of real-time preview capability offered in the Customize menu.

, Filed Under: maintenance

UBS Release Notes 1/25/18

UBS has been updated from WordPress 4.8.3 to 4.9.2.  This update includes security/maintenance updates, and customizer workflow improvements. More information can be found below.

 

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