One of the things we’re focusing on here at Edublogs is bringing you unique features & plugins which provide you and your students with an unrivalled blogging experience :)
So this week I’d like to introduce you to an old favourite of the plugin world and two new bunnies, the new ‘uns first:
Edublogs Only – This is a neat plugin that will immediately make your blog private to all but registered and logged in Edublogs users. That way you’re protected from pretty much any nasty outsiders and don’t have to stress about adding your colleagues as users of your blog – all they need is an Edublogs account!
DivShare Uploader -Fancy unlimited uploads, up to 200MB at a time, straight from your ‘Write’ screen… then turn this on and register with DivShare and you’ll be laughing. We provide 100MB of upload space for you free of charge already… but every little helps huh!
And we’d also like to welcome back Subscribe to Comments, an old favourite that was built in but will work better as an optional plugin. Basically it allows commentators on your site to tick a box and get updated of responses to their comments / other comments… amazingly useful!
So there you go, we hope you enjoy them :)
There are more in the pipeline too – but please feel free to make suggestions too!
April 5, 2007 at 2:02 am Permalink
I need to have an easy way to upload video clips. I don’t necessarily want to join YouTube. But perhaps that’s the only way??
April 5, 2007 at 9:05 am Permalink
Try the DivShare plugin – that should work.
April 6, 2007 at 2:05 am Permalink
I tried, but it was taking hours to upload a clip that was under 200mb and then it stopped uploading around 64mb. I cancelled the operation in frustration. It was not as easy I thought.
April 6, 2007 at 10:25 am Permalink
That sounds liek an issue with your upload speed or Divshare’s settings – try getting in touch with them: http://divshare.com/page/support
April 11, 2007 at 2:04 am Permalink
Okay, I’m confused. How do I get the “edublogs only” plugin and documentation?
April 11, 2007 at 2:16 am Permalink
Forgive my ignorance…I just saw where I can get it!
April 13, 2007 at 5:17 am Permalink
Any chance of the OpenID plugin? http://blog.verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/
I’m experimenting with ClaimID and ran across the WordPress plugin–I think Technorati uses it as an option for claiming your blog, as well.
April 13, 2007 at 2:40 pm Permalink
I’ll look into it – I certainly can’t see why we wouldn’t.
April 25, 2007 at 8:14 am Permalink
I must be an idiot. All I want to do is top upload and access a file liker a .ppt or .doc.
I was expectingh a seamless interface. I can’t find it or help. I have joined divshare how do I link to a divshare hosted file from edublogs?
I just don’t get it.
Ity dead simple on blogger.
April 25, 2007 at 9:27 am Permalink
Just log in and go to ‘write’ – you can upload 100MB of stuff before you need to turn on divshare with the upload area under the posting area.