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Anatomy Of A Blog

Teachers, Wordpress Tips // September 4, 2011

A nice graphic overview of the parts of a blog created by catspyjamasnz.

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Creating a Menu

Next Steps, Wordpress Tips // April 8, 2012

Create a Menu How to create a menu system in WordPress Select Menu Click on Appearance and select Menus. Name Your Menu Give your menu a name then click on Create Menu. Your custom menu can be up of Custom Links (1), pages you have created (2), 0r blog categories (3) A Few Things You [...]

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Embedding Content

Teachers // April 6, 2012

As I see people add video to a blog post using embed code I can tell that they have not heard of oEmbed. If you want to quickly add a youtube video to your blog start by control clicking (right click) on the video. You can then copy the video URL. Go to your blog [...]

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Back Up Your Blog

Next Steps, Wordpress Tips // January 2, 2012

How to Backup Your Blog Steps needed to back up your your blog you can use this backup to restore your blog to a different location on any wordpress based site. Select Export From the tools menu select Export. Select the content I am going to select all content. You can select posts or pages only [...]

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Duplicating a Blogroll

Next Steps, Teachers, Wordpress Tips // November 8, 2011

If you have a blogroll (list of links) setup for your class you can duplicate this on other blogs Create the Blogroll on a Blog Create the template set of links on a blog. This can be the teacher blog or a student blog. Add the link categories and the links you want all of [...]

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Teacher Based Taxonomy

Next Steps, Teachers, Wordpress Tips // November 6, 2011

Creating a Teacher Based Taxonomy Taxonomy is one of those words that most people never hear or use. Basically, a taxonomy is a way to group things together. Category The ‘category’ taxonomy lets you group posts together by sorting them into various categories. These categories can then be seen on the site by using ‘/category/name’ [...]

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Tag Based RSS Feeds

Name Me, Next Steps // November 5, 2011

Tag Based RSS Feeds-Blog Based Use RSS feeds to simplify things (Using Your Blog) RSS Feeds There are many different ways of using RSS feeds. This way useful if you have never used RSS feeds before and are not currently using a RSS reader. We will be looking at other ways of doing the same [...]

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