WordPress admin outage and database rollback

We want to inform you of an important issue regarding the UA WordPress system. Due to an unexpected problem, we needed to roll back the WordPress database to 11:30 p.m. today. Unfortunately, this means that any work done after this time will be lost. We […]

Categories: Incident Report, Outage


WP Deployment 2.9.2

Today’s WordPress deployment was a more technical one where we handled many plugin updates, took care of additional accessibility changes, and improved code quality behind the scenes. We are also bidding farewell to the ZenDesk plugin and evaluating a new chat plugin replacement. As always, […]

Categories: Deployment


Please check your accordions

Recently we made improvements to the Accordion block, focused on making the block more accessible for users with screen readers.  However, these changes necessitated giving all accordions unique identifiers. Previously, if you copied an accordion, it would retain the same identifier. As a result […]

Categories: Functionality Change


New Announcement Banner and Dashboard Alerts!

We have some exciting updates to share with you.  Announcement Banner: This one’s been on our wishlist (and maybe yours!) for a very long time, and we’re thrilled to announce it’s finally here. You can now add a site-level announcement banner to all pages on […]

Categories: New Feature


Twitter feed issues

As you may have heard, Twitter has been experiencing some instability and that instability has affected most of the world’s external integrations with Twitter. This includes our WordPress sites in relation to a third-party plugin that we use, SmashBalloon Social Feeds, which allows users […]


PPRD will refresh on Tuesday, May 23rd

We will refresh our PPRD database with the latest production data on Tuesday, May 23rd. This means that we will overwrite the PPRD version of your site with the content from your live site. If you are still working on an unlauched site on PPRD, […]

Categories: Update


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