Comments on: One existing and some more upcoming features

By: MP Bumsted

MP Bumsted — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:21:59 +0000

It turns out that the Feedblitz form doesn’t seem to be usable as a new link. However, they do provide the code for a link to subscribe, which does work (I added the link to my blogroll here http://hlthenvt.edublogs.org/)

Be sure to ok EITHER the atom or the RSS feed sublink (2nd or 3rd below) or all people will get is the dashboard entries–
*RSS or Atom Feed: http://nnnnn.edublogs.org/feed/
*RSS or Atom Feed: http://nnnnn.edublogs.org/feed/rss/
*RSS or Atom Feed: http://nnnnn.edublogs.org/feed/atom/
*Submitted URL (not recommended): http://nnnnn.edublogs.org/

By: James

James — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:43:41 +0000

Good plan! Thanks for that

By: M Pamela Bumsted

M Pamela Bumsted — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:52:39 +0000

To add a notify by email component, try http://www.feedblitz.com. It will add a little box to the sidebar.

By: James

James — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:01:58 +0000

Hiya all,

Just back from hols. With any luck the upgrade I’m about to do will sort a lot of this out (including adding powerpoints .mp3s etc)

The plugin looks good too, will look into it.

Thanks for all the feedback and patience.

Cheers, James

By: LindaH

LindaH — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:58:18 +0000

Hi Brent – It’s not just you, I never did get the Flickr badge to work in the sidebar either.

By: Brent MacKinnon

Brent MacKinnon — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:52:28 +0000

Hi James, I see you mentioned to use the links functionality for adding scripts, pictures and the like to the sidebar. I may be all thumbs on this but nothing is working for me. I am trying to add this neat rss calendar script and I’m not getting anywhere. Can you advise me on how to do this or maybe this is impossible?
Thanks,
Brent

By: John Schinker

John Schinker — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:28:39 +0000

James,

Thanks for your work. You’ve done an excellent job making WordPress accessible for teachers, and to some extent, you’ve inspired me to host a similar site for the teachers in my school district.

One plugin you may want to consider is Brian Groce’s email notification plugin (http://watershedstudio.com/portfolio/software/wp-email-notification.html). Essentially, it allows people to opt-in to have content emailed to them as the content changes.

For a teacher’s site, I could see parents signing up like this. Then, when the teacher updates the content, it gets emailed to the parents who have asked for it. They don’t have to “check back frequently for updates,” when there are updates, they’ll see them in their inboxes.

It does give the author the option of notifying or not notifying users on the compose page.

Nice work, and thanks again.

By: merry

merry — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:19:19 +0000

I was wondering if it’s possible to attach files like powerpoints to my blog. My students have made some as quizzes to practice their knowledge of Early Explorers.

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:59:55 +0000

Hi Linda, you should be able to post remotely to your blog using this link:

http://yourblogname.edublogs.org/wordpress/xmlrpc.php

And you can add any badge you like to your sidebar using the “links” functionality.

Have a play, let me know how you go.