About the Extended Outage this Weekend
On Saturday, October 18, this WordPress service suffered it longest outage, which lasted approximately 12 hours. On Sunday there was another outage for an hour right before noon. The reason for this...
View ArticleWordPress 4.1 is deployed
Updating WordPress during intersession week (also known as "wintersession") has become an annual tradition. This year the version is 4.1 “Dinah,” named for jazz singer Dinah Washington. The headline...
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WordPress 4.2.1 is deployed
Normally we wait for the breaks in between semesters to deploy feature updates to WordPress core. However, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered recently in the WordPress commenting...
View ArticleOh, the humanity!
Update: It appears that the whitelist is not preventing the arithmetic CAPTCHA. I will contact Jetpack support for more information. Those of you logging into the admin area of sites on our WordPress...
View ArticleWordPress 4.3 is live
I have deployed WordPress 4.3 across the sites in our WordPress network. New features include formatting shortcuts in the editor, an option to edit the menus in the customizer, and a customizer option...
View ArticleWordPress 4.5.2 deployed
Two security vulnerabilities in earlier versions of WordPress necessitated that we move to version 4.5.2. New features of WordPress 4.5.x include an inline link editor, live responsive previews in the...
View ArticleManaged WordPress service
Welcome to Princeton University's cloud-hosted multisite WordPress network. If you can't find what you are looking for, send an email to wordpress@princeton.edu or use the "Ask for Help" link in...
View ArticleWordPress 4.7 deployed, Twenty Seventeen coming
This morning we deployed WordPress 4.7 to the OIT-managed WordPress environment. One of the main new features of the new version is a brand new default theme, Twenty Seventeen. This theme is not yet...
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Single sign-on (CAS) replaces LDAP
All sites in the OIT-managed WordPress environment now use Princeton University's Central Authentication Service (CAS) for authorizing access to protected pages, including the WordPress admin...
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To the cloud!
Today we finally finished migration of the OIT-managed WordPress server to the Pantheon cloud-hosting service. Page load times are noticeably improved. We hope that uptime for the service will also see...
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