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Due to the outages on Friday and Saturday, we have moved the Blogtown NZ site back on to the original server while we look for a more reliable web hosting company to partner with.
We take outages very seriously and we always aim for enterprise-level uptime despite Blogtown NZ being a free service. We apologise for the site being unavailable and will update again shortly when we are able to proceed with the server move.
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We have just moved Blogtown NZ onto a new server here in NZ. This now puts us in a position to start implementing a bunch of new features that we’ve been promising for a long time.
The move to a new server should also bring a big speed increase to the Blogtown NZ site, but if you notice anything not quite right with your blog, please let us know on the usual support email address: [email protected].
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The latest version of WordPress has been released recently and we are currently working on testing this with the aim of releasing the changes into Blogtown NZ as soon as possible. The biggest change in this new version is that the administration screens have been radically updated to make working with your blogs faster and easier.
Please have a look at the video below to see what the changes look like…
As always, if you have any questions, please email us on [email protected] if you have any questions.
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The upgrade to Blogtown NZ went without a hitch and now all users have access to all the new features.
There are now over a hundred themes to choose from and there’s also a new option to preview each theme so that you can see what your blog looks like with the new theme before activating it.
The admin interface has been greatly enhanced and with the most common functions all easily accessible from the dashboard, with notifications about recent comments and other useful information.
Uploading photos has now been made easier with the addition of the improved photo uploading tools in the Write screens.
The upgrade to the site will also allow us to introduce the new premium offerings which will allow users to disable the adverts, or choose to display their own ads, as well as getting increased storage for photos and videos.
As always, please email us if you have any questions.
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We are just preparing the final stages of the Blogtown NZ upgrade. The site will shortly be updated with the equivalent features from WordPress 2.6
These are some quite radical changes and provide too many new features to list here, so instead please watch the video below for more details.
As always, if you have any questions, please email us on [email protected] if you have any questions.
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Support for Gravatars has now been added to Blogtown NZ. Read more about Gravatars below, but you can find the options for configuring Gravatars in the Presentation section of your blog admin pages.
What is a gravatar?
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
How do I get a gravatar?
Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled weblogs!
Sign up now! (link takes you off-site.)
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We’ve just implemented a new spam blocking system that includes several components, the most visible of which is a CAPTCHA system that prompts unregistered users to enter an obscured word when posting comments.
Please let us know if you encounter any issues with this.
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OK, the latest site updates have been successfully applied. Initial testing all faired well, but if you find any problems please let us know on the usual support email address – [email protected]
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We’ve just rolled out the latest round of updates to Blogtown NZ. This lines us up with WordPress’s 2.1 release that just came out. Some of the new features include a spell-checker in the visual writing box, as well as an auto-save feature.
We’ve also just implemented some advanced cacheing functions which should dramatically increase the performance of your blogs.
As always, get in touch with us at [email protected] if you have any problems.
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We have recently rolled out the latest round of updates and the site is now running the latest WordPress software. These updates also enhance the writing of posts as you can now easily switch between the standard WYSIWYG view, to an HTML view which shows the actual code being posted
We’ve also introduced a new plugin that can be used to track visitors to your blogs. You can activate the plugin using the plugins page in your admin site. Then have a look for a new menu under the Dashboard section.
As always, if you encounter any problems please let us know at [email protected].