This site brings all Web Team updates, news, blogging and web skills resources in to one place – a ‘go to’ for web team stuff.
Just like all our web projects the site is ever-evolving, so expect it to refine and expand over time.
If you’ve any questions or suggestions (or bugs to report) please submit a ticket to our help-desk by emailing website@courtauld.ac.uk
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Happy New Year. The ‘change freeze’ on our website has now ended. 11 plugin updates and one WordPress ‘core’ update were applied to https://courtauld.ac.uk yesterday following test [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 14 plugin updates and one WordPress ‘core’ update were applied to http://courtauld.ac.uk today following test rollouts on our development and staging servers. A WordPress ‘core’ update was [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss A full round of 29 plugin updates have today been applied to https://sites.courtauld.ac.uk , plus a number of theme updates and an update to WordPress core taking [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss One extraordinary plugin update was applied to http://courtauld.ac.uk today to address a functionality problem. No, or minimal, impact would be expected from this update (and testing [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 29 plugin updates and one WordPress ‘core’ update were applied to http://courtauld.ac.uk yesterday following test rollouts on our development and staging servers. A WordPress ‘core’ update was [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss One extraordinary plugin update was applied to http://courtauld.ac.uk today to address an identified security vulnerability. No, or minimal, impact would be expected from this update (and [...]
Blog post edited by Geoff Moss 23 plugin updates and one WordPress ‘core’ update were applied to http://courtauld.ac.uk yesterday following test rollouts on our development and staging servers. No, or minimal, impact would [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 3 plugin updates have today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk as follows: No, or minimal, impact would be expected from these updates (and automated testing suggests all is fine) [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 11 plugin updates, 7 theme updates and an update to WordPress ‘core’ (taking it to version 5.7) have today been applied to blog.courtauld.ac.uk. No, or minimal, impact would be [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 5 plugin updates, and an update to WordPress ‘core’ (taking it to version 5.6.2), have today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk. The WordPress core update should resolve the issue some [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 9 plugin updates and translations, and an update to WordPress ‘core’ (taking it to version 5.6.1), have today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk. This includes an update to the ‘Advanced [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 11 plugin updates and translations have today been applied to sites.courtauld.ac.uk. One significant update has been included – to our SEO plugin – which it’s hoped will resolve [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss I’ve noted today a few instances of pages entering the Google search index using the ‘raw’ address for the site (i.e. the hosting address, not the domain [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 12 plugin updates and translations have today been applied to sites.courtauld.ac.uk. No, or minimal, impact would be expected from these updates (and automated testing suggests all is [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss A noteworthy bug fix (outlined below) has today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk following testing on dev.courtauld.ac.uk – this is outside of any changes ‘schedule’ as [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 5 plugin updates have today been applied to blog.courtauld.ac.uk. No, or minimal, impact would be expected from these updates (and testing suggests all is fine) however as [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following a test run on a development site 3 plugin updates have today been applied to sites.courtauld.ac.uk. No, or minimal, impact would be expected from these updates ([...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss I’ve now resolved the problem, implementing a new security certificate on the server. As such dev.courtauld.ac.uk can now be accessed again (and no longer experience [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Due to Google taking the final step on blocking websites with invalid security certificates dev.courtauld has currently become inaccessible. I’m in the process of getting a new [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 8 plugin updates, 5 theme updates and 1 update to WordPress ‘Core’ – bringing it to version 5.5.1 – have today been applied to sites.courtauld.ac.uk. No, or minimal, impact would be expected [...]
Blog post edited by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 19 outstanding plugin updates and 1 update of WordPress ‘Core’ have been applied to courtauld.ac.uk. [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following on from the previous update, the ‘light tough’ brand refresh of the web team websites (i.e. logo, core colour scheme and ‘favicons’) has [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 10 plugin updates, 6 theme updates and 1 WordPress ‘core’ update have all today been applied to blog.courtauld.ac.uk. The WordPress ‘core’ update brings it to version 5.5.1, [...]
Blog post edited by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 15 outstanding plugin updates, 4 theme updates, 1 update of WordPress ‘Core’ and a number [...]
Blog post edited by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 13 outstanding plugin updates and a number of translation updates have been applied to [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following a test run on a development site an enormous 41 plugin updates – plus 5 theme updates, plus translations – have today been applied to sites.courtauld.ac.uk (the last round [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss The development/staging environment now has the latest content from the main site which as ever you can use for testing purposes (note that not all images are included [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 7 outstanding plugin updates, 2 theme updates and 1 WordPress ‘core’ update have all today [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 16 outstanding plugin updates and 1 theme update have all today been applied to courtauld.[...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), an update to the ‘core’ WordPress software running courtauld.ac.uk has [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 9 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk. Translation updates [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Not much to report here, as there’s a development freeze in place, however there have been a couple of small changes in the last week or two [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 5 outstanding plugin updates and 4 theme updates have today been applied to courtauld.ac.[...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss In the last couple of weeks a stonking 26 plugin updates have been released that apply to sites.courtauld.ac.uk, and they have today been applied. No, or minimal, [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 5 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to blog.courtauld.ac.uk (and corresponding language translations). No, or minimal, impact would be expected from these updates (and [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 5 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk. No, or [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 6 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk (and [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 7 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to sites.courtauld.ac.uk. No, or minimal, impact would be expected from these updates (and automated testing suggests all is [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 2 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to blog.courtauld.ac.uk (and corresponding language translations). No, or minimal, impact would be expected from these updates (and automated [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 4 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk (and corresponding [...]
Blog post edited by Geoff Moss The web team are beginning a refocus of the direction for the main website, with a view to a major transformation project to ensure it can best deliver for [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 8 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to sites.courtauld.ac.uk. A WordPress system theme – Twenty Twenty – was also updated. No, or minimal, impact would be expected [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 22 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to sites.courtauld.ac.uk. No, or minimal, impact would be expected from these updates (and automated testing suggests all is [...]
Blog post edited by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 11 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk – and language [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Following automated testing, and trial roll-out on the ‘development environment’ (dev.courtauld.ac.uk), 4 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to courtauld.ac.uk. No, or [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss This means that should you wish to use dev.courtauld to test a few things with your content layouts (or share previews of drafts with third parties) you can [...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Another quite bumper update as there are still a few waiting for me to notify on from before Christmas, apologies. They should be back to normal now. Main Courtauld.[...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss I’ve added a new plugin today that enables a range of supplementary author functions, the core of which is to enable the simple addition of ‘phantom&[...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss 14 outstanding plugin updates have today been applied to sites.courtauld.ac.uk. One WordPress ‘core’ update has also been applied, which is an incremental maintenance/security/[...]
Blog post added by Geoff Moss Happy New Year! As I’m now back from the Christmas break the ‘change deployment freeze’ is now over and the standard programme of change deployment [...]
