We’ve had a pretty busy weekend at the Edublogs ranch upgrading Edublogs to the new all singing, all dancing version of WordPress MultiUser and – while there are still a few tweaks in process – we’re more than delighted to confirm a complete upgrade and introduce you to our new admin look and some rather great new features!
New Colours! New Design!
Yep, the admin area has been redesigned from the ground up to make it easier to use, more pleasing to the eye and generally just better. You can even change the colors (just click on your username in teh top Right or on Users > Your Profile).
Finally a customizable dashboard
Simply rearrange your dashboard (what you see when our first log in) by clicking on the ‘Dashboard Widgets’ sub menu… you can add RSS feeds, blogs linking to your and we’ll be adding more as we go.
Oh my what a beautiful uploader
The new uploader is a thing of beauty, now you can simply upload multiple files, and create beautoful and simple galleries on the fly, check out this video for more:
Upgraded avatars
Scroll down to the bottom of Settings > Discussion and you’ll see a whole host of new avatar options for your comments. You can set users without avatar to look like mystery people, beautiful fractals or even monsters :) And what’s more, you now have the option to turn avatars off!
And that’s by no means all, but it’s all we’re going to put in this post for the moment.
For further explanation and exploration check out Sue Waters quick tour at The Edublogger and our brand new Video Tutorials.
So please, take time out to surf around your admin area for a bit and enjoy the new features and let us know what you think below.
And FYI, we’ll be upgrading Edublogs Campus sites during the summer break to cause as little disturbance as possible.
As ever, please post any support questions / unrelated stuff in the forums as it’ll just get deleted as a comment.
OK, since we recently started allowing student blogs on Edublogs it’s about time we heard from you exactly how you’d like to use blogs with them!