Posted in Exc-el, WPMU on Oct 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Unfortunately the number of spam blogs being created at edubuzz.org/blogs has gone from being an occasional nuisance to a many-times-a-day problem. We’re not alone in this: others are having similar problems.
We’ve been managing these manually, but as the frequency has increased this has become difficult.
As a temporary control, sign-ups have been currently restricted to email [...]
Posted in Exc-el, WPMU, WordPress tips on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
By default, the WordPress blog search doesn’t search Pages. If you’ve an eduBuzz blog and want it to do that, activate the Search Pages plugin.
This plugin, from http://www.internetofficer.com, extends the scope of the search to include Posts and Pages.
Posted in Exc-el, WordPress tips on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Just added a note on how to do this to the eduBuzz support wiki, which you can find at http://edubuzz.org/support
You can see an example on the Dunbar Primary Parents site, where Chris has used it effectively on the Current Classes Page to display a table of current classes.
Posted in Exc-el, Parents as Partners on Sep 7th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve just read the first post from our new parent blogger Mumble. Put it this way, guineapigmum hasn’t just got company, she’s got competition.
Highly recommended: I’m looking forward to the next instalment already. Here’s a sample:
Yikes. Broadcasting is scary! I was aiming for the beginning of term for this but being a bit of techno-woose [...]
Posted in Exc-el, Humbie Primary, Parents as Partners, blogging on Aug 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Good school web sites can engage parents who want to help, but just aren’t comfortable setting foot in school, or talking to teachers.
In talking to Mhairi Stratton today about developing the Humbie Primary site, and class blogs there, she told me the story of how she discovered from her pupils at a previous city [...]
Posted in Exc-el, WPMU, WordPress tips on Aug 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
A recent update to this means it will have vanished from the sidebar of any eduBuzz blog using it.
If you’ve been using it, and you want it back, the good news is that it can just be dragged back again. Go to Presentation / Sidebar Widgets and drag “Latest eduBuzz Posts” to wherever you [...]
Posted in Exc-el, WPMU, WordPress tips on Aug 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Edubuzz blogs now offer Widgetbox Widgets in addition to the standard Text and RSS ones.
Thanks to a new plugin from incsub and ringofblogs it’s now easy to incorporate Widgetbox Widgets into a WPMU site. The plugin has been developed originally for the edublogs.org blog hosting service, and is being shared under the GPL licence.
Widgetbox offer [...]
Posted in Exc-el, Parents as Partners, blogging on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
During today’s In-Service, Longniddry Primary staff got some hands-on practice with the eduBuzz blog system so more people can update the school site, and so that they’re ready to make a start with class blogs.
The school’s Development Plan for the year includes work on parental involvement, and the blog-based school web site is one of [...]
Posted in Exc-el, WPMU, WordPress on Aug 16th, 2007 1 Comment »
The fault with eduBuzz sign-up has now been fixed and tested.
For the curious: the fault was being caused by an incorrectly configured plugin, danalog’s site-wide tagging solution, which we’ve been experimenting with. This plugin doesn’t read the domain name automatically, but requires it to be coded into the plugin. And until you do that, it [...]
Posted in Exc-el, WPMU, WordPress on Aug 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
There’s currently a fault with this, which is leading to attempts to create blogs in the domain “domain.tld” instead of edubuzz.org. If you need a new blog meantime, please email me. Hopefully we’ll get this sorted tomorrow.
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