Including a photo gallery in your posts or pages is now a whole lot easier. And here’s what they look like:
This big improvement is a built-in feature of the current WordPress MU software. It offers great potential for school use:
- It provides really good support for commenting on individual images, not just one the post.
- It allows photos to be displayed with captions.
Go and take a look at the original post on the King’s Meadow site to see it in action.
It’s also the ideal way to show off collections of photos of paintings or other activities where your audience might still want to have a good look at an individual photo, and not watch it quickly change into another one as part of a slideshow!
To use it, just upload a set of images in the usual way. Just don’t hit “Insert in Post” while you’re working with the individual images, use Insert Gallery instead. You’ll just see the word Gallery in square brackets, but the image gallery will displayed when the post or page is visited.
We’ve said before that edubuzz.org visits were hitting over 10,000 per day during May, but how busy is it in terms of contributions?
To keep an eye on that we’ve added the Blog Activity plugin from WPMU DEV Premium. It hasn’t been running for a full month yet, but a random check today showed that in the last week there were over 1000 contributions: 504 posts and 499 comments.
This balance between posts and comments is a good indication - if any were needed - of the changing times for education web sites.
Thanks to Lynne Lewis, Athelstaneford Primary students now have their own copy of the Glow Games.
If you’d like to add them to your eduBuzz site, you’ll find instructions below.
If you’ve an eduBuzz blog, you’ll have had to avoid using the default “Flash uploader”, which was generating an “HTTP Error” message: that’s now sorted.
We believe the fault’s now fixed (a site-wide WordPress plugin needed to be upgraded). Feedback welcome - please leave a comment.
With interest in Glow increasing rapidly around Scotland, these Glow Games have been let loose to help get people talking - and, of course, help with learning too.
Once you get your Glow login, you’ll find they’re in there too - with some advantages.
If you’ve an edubuzz blog, why not embed the games in a post or page? Enjoy. Continue reading ‘Light Up Your Blog With Glow Games’
