News

Nov 25 2013 Bug Fixes

Updated some Wordpress Plugins to fix bugs: Profile Custom Content Type and Section Widget.

Wiki Embed Plugin Update

In order to beef up our security we have added a white list of sites that are can be embed via the wiki-embed plugin. The current list of sites is the following: https://wiki.ubc.ca https://wiki.ubc.ca http://en.wikipedia.org http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki http://www.wikidata.org/wiki http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki http://en.wikinews.org/wiki http://en.wikisource.org/wiki http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki https://en.wikipedia.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki https://en.wikinews.org/wiki https://en.wikisource.org/wiki […]

Plugin updates.

We just wanted to announce some plugins updates that require your action. Twitter Tracker 3.3.3 We have updated the twitter tracker pluguin which has stopped working because Twitter decided to update their API. The plugin update requires you to authenticate with twitter in order to be able to display the twitter updates on your site. […]

No more Automatic <p></p> Tags

New plugin allows the removal of the annoying automatic p tags that WordPress wraps around the content. The paragraph tags are added by WordPress through the use of a filter to the wpautop function inside one of the core WordPress files. WordPress adds the paragraph tags after retrieval of the content from the SQL database. […]

UBC CMS Updated to 3.5.1

UBC CMS has been updated to the latest version of WordPress version 3.5.1

CMS upgrade on Saturday February 2nd, 2013

CMS.UBC.CA will be upgraded to WordPress v 3.5.1 on Saturday, February 2nd between 07:00 and 08:00. No down time is expected.

UBC CMS Updated to 3.4.2

Hi everyone We updated to the latest version of WordPress ( 3.4.2 ) For more info on the update visit. http://wordpress.org/news/2012/09/wordpress-3-4-2/

UBC CMS Updated to 3.4.1

UBC CMS has been updated to 3.4.1. This release includes significant improvements to theme customization, custom headers, Twitter embeds, and image captions.

The UBC CMS is due for an upgrade!

On Saturday May 5th, at 7:00 AM, we will add more CPU power for the improved performance.
The service will not be available for about 15 minutes and yes, your sites will be down for this amount of time.