Simply login to https://blogs.rice.edu with your NetID and password and start updating your blog.

After the migration to CampusPress, your previous Rice blog will still be available, just in a new hosting environment with more features and space. The new cloud environment uses the WordPress platform and is hosted by an external provider, CampusPress by Edublogs. Previous content from the original blogs.rice.edu system is being migrated to the new service provider and the name of the service will remain the same to prevent confusion for the site owners, content managers, and your readers.

Themes & Plugins

There are over 200 themes and plugins you can choose for your site.  If you chose a default WordPress theme for your site in blogs.rice.edu, it probably looks the same in the test environment: http://betablogs.rice.edu.  However, five themes are no longer available on betablogs and the sites that used those themes have been converted to a sleek black and white theme called Twenty Fourteen.  Sites using these five themes will now appear in black and white in the new environment:

1. Greenday
2. Pink-Kupy
3. sumenep
4. veryplaintxt
5. Light

Blog content

Sites created and managed in blogs.rice.edu should not contain content, data, or files that are sensitive or confidential to the university, as defined by Rice Policy 808, on protecting personally identifiable data and other sensitive data.