So, you may notice a new favicon as of today (the little 16×16 pixel thing next to the http…) Am not sure how well the average browser refreshes these, but it’s a cute little e – and heralds great things to come in January.
There’s going to be a redesign (tres funky) that’ll link together all of the edublogs sites, more themes, features and plugins to enjoy at your leisure and a great big whopping surprise that I hope a lot of you will like. Not telling any more though… just yet ;)
Have a merry Christmas, joyful new year and a good rest… if you can manage to stay off the blogs :) – James
Thanks heaps, James. Any chance of the K2 theme being included? If the header would work then that would be my pick of theme – maybe K2-Lite if that’s not possible. Once again, I really appreciate your generousity and commitment to edublogs – the best place to have a blog IMHO. Have a great Christmas.
It’s most definitely on the cards… just need to sort out that header issue!
Happy Christmas, James! Many thanks for throwing your stone into the pond. The ripples just keep on going, and you’re making a welcome difference right round the world!
Happy New Year James! Will these wonderful updates mean any down time for edublogs? I’d like to be able to warn my students who will increasingly be dependent on edublogs for their work.
Thank you for all your work here.
Nope… downtime free :) Happy new edublogging year!
Is it true that there will be a wordpress plugin adding the features of this site (see link below)? and if so, will it be a plugin available on edublogs.org? http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/1-empty-an-introduction/
Anything’s possible although that looks particularly nice – I’ll look into it as soon as I’m back off hols.
Can you add an Authors widget? I would like to be able to compile all of a student’s posts this way. In a class blog I used over the summer, I used an Author widget and found them to be indispensable to finding where a student posted something.
Always happy to investigate improvements – do you have a link to the widget itself?
Yes, here’s a link to the Authors widget that would be simplest: http://www.mikesmullin.com/2006/06/21/list-authors-widget/
This widget displays all authors on a blog. You click the links of the authors, and it either takes you to the authors.php page (if the theme miraculously has one), or it takes you to index.php page but with only the author’s posts displayed.
When I implemented the Authors tag on my last composition site, I added a parameter that showed the number of posts the author had made. This was handy. To view the authors on my last comp site, see http://www.idratherbewriting.com/comp. (the right sidebar).
The authors’ names linked to author pages. The code of the authors.php page I used is as follows (this may be useful if you ever want to create a generic authors page for any theme):
Author Profile
About:
first_name; ?> last_name; ?>
Website:
user_url; ?>”>user_url; ?>
Profile:
user_description; ?>
Posts:
” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link: “>
,
in
RSS Feed:
Click the name for the feed: ID, $authordata->user_nicename) . ‘feed/” title=”Feed for posts by ‘ . wp_specialchars(the_author($idmode, false)) . ‘”>’ . the_author($idmode, false) . ”; ?>
E-mail:
“>Send an e-mail .
Obviously some of the above code is specific to the Tiga theme I was using. Thanks for adding the authors widget.