The End Of Twitter

That’s probably an overstatement. But this June 11, Twitter is going to be retiring their current API and replacing it with the new version. What does this mean to you?

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Sidebar Login Is Back!

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The latest update of the Sidebar Widget works nicely with our systems. If you want an easy way to log in from your blog’s home screen, just follow this simple recipe. . . . → Read More: Sidebar Login Is Back!

New Themes

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We’ve added two new themes for you to work with.

Clean Retina is “a Simple, Clean and Responsive Retina Ready WordPress Theme which adapts automatically to your tablets and mobile devices.”

It has lots of theme options so you can customize, including nine home page layouts, five post layouts, a featured slider, social icons, . . . → Read More: New Themes

Happy New Year

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To help celebrate, we’ve upgraded the blog system to WordPress 3.5. The biggest change is the new media manager. It’s easier to use — all you have to do is drag-and-drop your media files onto the popup. It’s especially speedy when you’re making a gallery.

It should also produce better results for you on . . . → Read More: Happy New Year

Twenty-Twelve

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WordPress 3.5 is scheduled to be released tomorrow, and while we won’t be updating it immediately — we usually wait until a 3.5.1 release to be sure the kinks are worked out — we have picked up this year’s new default theme, twentytwelve.

To see twentytwelve in action, visit the Badges blog. But one . . . → Read More: Twenty-Twelve

Featured Image Bug – Updated and Fixed

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If you’re using the Arras theme, or another one that’s dependent on featured images, Drag and drop the image you want from your desktop into the “Featured Image” box in the right-hand column. You won’t be able to do it from within the Media popup screen until a future update.

Site Categories

A new plugin, “Site Categories,” will let us build nicely organized lists of sites by their topic. We’ve already set up a few basic categories, and next time you go in to make an update to your site, you can help. . . . → Read More: Site Categories

Appointments+

Introducing a new plugin, Appointments+.

What’s it for? Suppose you’re managing a group of students available to work on specific projects in specific time slots. You can build a calendar, and assign tasks and people to times. Confirmation and reminder e-mails happen automatically, and you can even pipe it into a Google calendar.

We’ve Upgraded!

This morning we upgraded to WordPress 3.4.2. It’s not a major release, so you probably won’t see any changes. According to the WordPress team’s blog, here’s what’s new:

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Announcing WordPress 3.4.1

We’ve upgraded to the latest and greatest this afternoon. It took about 15 seconds, so your experience should have been pretty seamless. Find out what’s new after the jump…

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Share Your Posts

Here are some plugins we offer to make sharing via social media sites easier.

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New in “Featured Blogs”

Several blogs have recently taken off, and we’re happy to highlight them on the Featured Blogs page. Global Health Governance (http://blogs.shu.edu/ghg/)
Switched On (http://blogs.shu.edu/switchedon/)
The College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter (http://blogs.shu.edu/artscinewsletter/)
The International Susan Glaspell Society (http://blogs.shu.edu/glaspellsociety/)
Seton Hall Alumni (http://blogs.shu.edu/alumni/)
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New Plugins for Site Managers

Here’s few new items to make your site management time a little easier.

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Four New Themes

Do you want to customize your blog? Really customize it? Four freshly installed themes give you more control than you ever dreamed of. They all offer menus, custom layouts and/or colors, widgets, multi-columns, color schemes; and each has its own special tweaks – icons, sliders, fonts, mobile versions. The possibilities to make your blog unique will grow exponentially. Some details on what they offer… . . . → Read More: Four New Themes