The UBS stewardship team will upgrade PHP 5.4 to 5.6 on June 13th, 2019. Maintenance will begin at 6 pm and is expected to last for one hour. The service will need to be restarted and a short outage is expected. No actions are required on your part.
WordPress 5.1.1
UBS has been updated to WordPress 5.1.1. See the following link for more information about this maintenance and security patch.
Gutenberg Editor Is Available!
UBS will be updated to WordPress 5.1.1 on May 23rd, 2019. You’ll notice a handful of changes throughout your Dashboard but one that we want to share is the new Page/Post editor called Gutenberg.
It’s a big change from the current, “Classic” editor you’re familiar with so far. The Classic editor will continue to be available by default for all current and new sites.
Site Administrators are welcome to try out the new Gutenberg editor at any time!
Just log into your site Dashboard, click on Plugins in the left-hand menu, then deactivate the “Classic Editor” plugin.
WordPress 4.9.10
UBS has been updated to WordPress 4.9.10. See the following link for more information about this security patch.
Database Maintenance Outage
The University Blog Service will be unavailable on March 20th from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM for database maintenance.
Check the IT Maintenance Events Calendar ( EID Auth Required ) for more information.
WordPress 4.9.9
UBS has been updated to WordPress 4.9.9. See the following link for more information about this security patch.
Maintenance Outage
The University Blog Service will undergo an upgrade on December 18th, 2018 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. During this time the service may be unavailable.
Check the IT Maintenance Events Calendar for more information.
If you have any questions, please contact the UT Service Desk at 512-475-9400. Thank you!
WordPress 4.9.8
UBS has been updated to WordPress 4.9.8. See the link below for more information about this maintenance release.
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/08/wordpress-4-9-8-maintenance-release/
WordPress 4.9.7
UBS has been updated to WordPress 4.9.7. See the link below for more information about this privacy and maintenance release.
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/07/wordpress-4-9-7-security-and-maintenance-release/
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
NOTE: If you are looking for instructions for setting up Google Analytics for the first time, please visit this post for more information.
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