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


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 […]


WordPress Outage Update

Here’s an update on yesterday’s intermittent outages for WordPress sites. Sites are currently stable. The University Advancement WordPress instance suffered a malicious attack that was successfully blocked by IS. The attack also created a large volume of logged errors in the database that produced the […]

Categories: Outage


Intermittent WordPress Outage

We are currently experiencing intermittent outages on our WordPress sites. The Advancement WordPress team is currently working with Information Systems to resolve this issue, but we have no estimated time of resolution. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Categories: Outage


WordPress Outage Update

Update on yesterday’s intermittent outages for WordPress sites: Sites are currently stable. We are continuing our investigation and actively monitoring as the day progresses and will update as needed. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Categories: Outage


WordPress Outage

We are currently experiencing intermittent outages on our WordPress sites. The Advancement WordPress team is currently working with Information Systems to resolve this issue, but we have no estimated time of resolution. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Categories: Outage


WordPress Media Gallery Issue Resolved

The UA WordPress team has resolved the issue with uploading new images to the media gallery. Images uploaded during the issue will still not work but any new or re-uploaded images should display correctly.

Categories: Outage


WordPress Media Gallery Issue

The UA WordPress team is aware of an issue with uploading new images to the media gallery. We are working on the issue and will update when a solution has been reached. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Categories: Outage


WordPress Outage

We have experienced an outage on our WordPress sites. The Advancement WordPress team worked with Information Systems to resolve this issue. The public and administrative access to our WordPress sites were restored Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 4:07 p.m. Unfortunately, to accomplish this, we had to […]

Categories: Outage


University Events (Localist) turned off

Bottom Line Up Front:  The events.wfu.edu website is still functioning properly. We have disabled our University Events (Localist) plugin until further notice. The University Events integration on your web site will appear blank until this is resolved. We are working with Localist to resolve the […]

Categories: Outage


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