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We will be upgrading the WordPress software that runs sites.dartmouth.edu on Thursday, June 18 starting at 10:00am. WordPress 4.2.2 includes a number of important security updates.

We don't anticipate any noticeable downtime, but please stay out of your site during the upgrade. Site owners will receive a reminder email shortly before the launch, and another email when it is safe to log back into their sites again.

Questions? Please contact wordpress@dartmouth.edu.

The sites.dartmouth.edu server will be down for maintenance on Thursday December 11, beginning at 10am. Please do not edit your site during this time, as your changes may be lost.

During this maintenance window, we will be installing security updates to WordPress core, plugins and themes.

We are adding a new plugin: Simple 301 Redirects. This plugin allows you to automatically redirect site visitors from one page to another on your site, or to another site entirely. This can be useful if you move your site to a new URL, but visitors still have your previous sites.dartmouth.edu URL bookmarked.

We will not be retiring any plugins or themes at this time. However, the following themes are still in a “deprecated” state:

  • Atahualpa
  • Blogolife
  • Delicate
  • Graphene
  • Mystique
  • P2
  • Pagelines
  • Radius
  • Responsive
  • Weaver-ii
  • Zenon-lite

This means that these themes are no longer available as new options. If you are currently using one of these deprecated themes, you may continue to do so. However, if you switch to a different theme, you will not be able to switch back to a deprecated theme later.

(These themes have been deprecated since January 2014, so this is not a change, just a reminder.)

If you have questions about the security update, please contact: web.support@dartmouth.edu