WordPress and UW Groups

Get­ting Word­Press to see your UW Groups An item that’s been on a lot of wish­lists of a lot of peo­ple for a long time now is the abil­ity to have Word­Press and the UW Groups Ser­vice com­mu­ni­cate with each other. Most of my own pur­suit of the issue revolved about using the groups RESTRead More


Google Analytics App for Android

Google has released an Android Appli­ca­tion for Google Ana­lyt­ics just a few moments ago, which may be of great inter­est to those of you who are keep­ing track of sta­tis­tics either for their blog here or site else­where. It offers cus­tomiza­tion of charts as well as a snap­shot of real time vis­i­tors. The app works with both… Read More


Welcome to WordPress 3.3!

We’ve moved the UW Blogs Net­work to a new data­base host and upgraded Word­Press to 3.3. Enjoy the newer stream­lined admin­is­tra­tive inter­face, includ­ing the enhanced media uploader!


WordPress 3.3 Released

As I’m sure most of you are already aware, Word­Press 3.3 has been released into the wild. After the release has some time to set­tle down and 3.3.1 is released, I’ll begin prepa­ra­tions for upgrad­ing the main blogs net­work to 3.3.


Jetpack Updated to 1.2.1

Overview Jet­pack has been updated to ver­sion 1.2.1 from our pre­vi­ous ver­sion of 1.1. Notable func­tion­al­ity added is the abil­ity to add site sub­scrip­tions which allows users to sign up to receive noti­fi­ca­tions of new posts. Addi­tional wid­gets and search engine sub­mis­sion fea­tures are also included. Learn more at jetpack.me How to Acti­vate Jet­pack is not acti­vated… Read More


Is My Blog Working?

Whilst dig­ging into the inner work­ings and doc­u­men­ta­tion of the nifty wp-super-cache plu­gin that the blogs net­work uses, I stum­bled upon ismyblogworking.com, which will run var­i­ous checks and give you a pretty good overview of your returns, fea­tures, and other “impor­tant stuff.” There are also quick links to val­i­date your HTML, feed, and check the… Read More


Layout Tweaks

There have been two updates to the default theme over the past 24 hours, both of which should enhance the user expe­ri­ence quite sig­nif­i­cantly. The first addi­tion is the abil­ity to dis­play your blog name and sub­ti­tle over the main header image, such as is what you see with my own blog. Note that you… Read More