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We’ve recently upgraded a number of plugins on Sites. If you use these plugins, please verify that they’re working as expected. If you encounter problems, please post a comment here or email the site administrator at wordpress@lafayette.edu.
Akismet: This is our anti-spam software; there’s a known issue with the “Akismet Stats” link, but the anti-spam functions [...]
NextGEN Gallery, which many of our sites use for photo galleries, didn’t make it through the Pilot-to-Sites migration and upgrade unscathed. The new version of NextGEN (1.3.5) played havoc with existing NextGEN settings and also made tweaks to the database.
As a result, if you’re using NextGEN, you’ll need to do a quick upgrade, reset your [...]
We’ve updated WordPress to 2.7.1. This is largely a bug fix upgrade, but they have made a few interface changes. The biggest is that they’ve removed the “admin bar”, which was the black navigation bar that spanned the top of the page when you were logged into WordPress. This admin bar allowed quick access to [...]
We’ve updated three of the WordPress plugins to their latest versions:
Google Analytics for WordPress
NextGEN Gallery
Powerpress
These are primarily bug fix updates, though the Powerpress update (which is used for podcasting) now incorporates an ‘advanced user’ screen that gives some additional control over your podcast. We’re still evaluating these additions.
If you encounter any problems, please let us [...]
During the Wednesday, March 18th’s maintenance window we upped the memory limit on the server running WordPress MU, which should solve the NextGen Galleries ZIP Upload problem.
In a nutshell, the issue was that if you uploaded a zip file with a bunch of large photos in it (e.g. photos that were 1 MB or larger) [...]
We updated a number of WordPress plugins as part of the 3/18/09 system maintenance. The following modules have been updated:
Google Analytics
NextGEN Gallery
Powerpress (podcasting)
In addition to bug fixes, The NextGEN Gallery and PowerPress plugins include some new features that we’ll be evaluating over the next few days. We will be posting more about those later; in [...]