Commons 2.6: Email and Site Creation Upgrades (and December Meeting!) “mailboxes” by dcJohn on flickr (cc) We hope you’ve been having a terrific fall semester! Here at the Commons, we’re pleased to announce tha […]

Summer Roundup: Public Meetings, Wikipedia Article, Block Documentation “what’s left of summer” by Bùi Linh Ngân on flickr (cc) Welcome to the fall semester! The Commons team enjoyed the summer, but we’ve also bee […]

The Importance of Two-Factor Authentication Credit: Niels Andersen on Flickr (cc) Our development team is spending the early part of 2025 making a series of under-the-hood improvements […]

Commons 2.5: Registration, Reimagined Happy holidays, Commons community! After we closed out our major redesign project with the overhaul of Groups last spring, we turned our […]

Hosting Migration Complete! “five-thirty pm” by Sophia Lucero on flickr (cc) We are very pleased to announce that the Commons has fully migrated to Reclaim […]

Hosting Migration Downtime “LED tunnel” by Yves Sorge on flickr (cc) The hosting migration that we announced last month will begin at 10:30am Eastern on Wednesday, […]

Scheduled Weekend Downtime Photo Credit: R.A. Killmer on flickr (cc) We wanted to let our users know that the Commons will be unavailable starting at 8am Eastern this […]

Hosting Upgrade and First Commons Open Community Meeting “frosted trees” from Richard Droker on Flickr With the end of the year fast approaching, we’re pleased to announce the final stages of a p […]

Commons 2.4: Groups, Our Redesign Finale Just over two years ago, with our 2.0 release of an overhauled homepage, we began to steadily revamp the look of the Commons. As we launch a new […]

Commons 2.3: The CV, Your New Professional Homepage It’s a new year, and we’re thrilled to kick it off by unveiling a big new feature. Today, we say goodbye to the traditional Commons Profile and […]

Commons 2.2: Revamped Settings and Inbox Welcome to fall, Commons community, and an eventful release season for our team! Since our January 2023 release of new About and Activity […]

We’re excited to begin a new year and a new semester with a cleaner main menu and several important new ways to jump into everything happening on the Commons.

Last spring, we brought the key elements of our h […]

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Looking For A New Theme For Your Site?

This month we deprecated a number of older, […]

As spring exams give way to summer, we’re pleased to announce the release of Commons 2.0! Since January, Commons members and visitors have been enjoying our homepage redesign – a long overdue rethinking of the […]

cc-licensed image “Cascada de colores in La Palma” by flickr user Sevenislands Photography

Full Site Editing (“FSE”) lets you change every part of a WordPress post, page, or template, using the Block […]

Welcome to the 1.19 Release

As the CUNY Academic Commons enters its 13th year, we’re thrilled to unveil a cornerstone for the years to come – a new homepage with a visual and functional overhaul that wil […]

In addition to our homepage overhaul, today we’re also launching a few targeted improvements in how we catalog and display the fast-expanding number of courses on the Commons.

As we increasingly open up e […]

There is a big change in the way widgets are handled with the release of WordPress 5.8.

Previously, Commons members added widgets to “widget areas” (sidebars, footers, etc.) by going to Appearance>>Widgets or […]