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Author Archives: Lance Grigsby
Something up with your site? Here’s the fix …
A couple of weeks ago, the Edublogs staff made some changes to its suite of WordPress themes. Unfortunately, these changes had an unintentional effect on our WordPress instance at http://blogs.baylor.edu: All sites using the Twenty Eleven theme were accidentally switched … Continue reading
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How to geotag your posts via WordPress for iOS
My previous post about the WordPress for iOS app explains how you can start posting to your WordPress blog from remote locations using your iPhone or iPad. We’ve since installed Geolocation Plugin for WordPress, which will allow you to add … Continue reading
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Mobile posting on iOS devices – a common hurdle
So you have an iPhone or iPad and the free WordPress for iOS app. Ready to start posting from your mobile device, right? Sounds easy enough, but forays into mobile posting via iOS often begin with this error: A seasoned … Continue reading
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How to make a post “sticky”
Sometimes you may need a post to stay glued to the front page of your site. For example, you may decide that you need to give your students a reading prompt for their next blog assignment and need the prompt … Continue reading
When student blog feeds don’t syndicate …
If you’re a faculty member using the FeedWordPress plugin to syndicate (aggregate) your student blogs into a courseblog, you may occasionally experience errors with regard to blog and category feeds, or encounter situations where a blogger’s content is simply not … Continue reading
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Managing Privacy in Courseblogs
Scenario: You’re an instructor using the FeedWordPress plugin to aggregate your student blogs into your courseblog. You enjoy the convenience of being able to read all your students’ posts on one site, as opposed to having to visit each of … Continue reading
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Setting up FeedWordPress to aggregate category, tag feeds
Every WordPress blog on the planet has a standard RSS feed address. Just tack on “feed” to the end of every WordPress blog URL, and there you have it. For example, this site: http://blogs.baylor.edu/feed That’s all well and good, but … Continue reading
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Setting up forums on your Edublogs site
Edublogs has provided an excellent how-to instructional guide for setting up forums at http://help.edublogs.org/2010/06/17/working-with-forums/. Forum participants must be members of the blog on which the forum is hosted. For assistance with batch adding forum participants using your class roster, please … Continue reading
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Open for business!
To all those in the Baylor Blogosphere: I say, bring your blogs teeming to the shores of Blogs @ Baylor University!!! We are officially open for business for all those folks who are ready to make the leap from http://homepages.baylor.edu. … Continue reading
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