Source: News – Introducing Learn WordPress – WordPress.org WordPress is the most used software on the internet for creating websites. You can start on WordPress.com, or run the software yourself. If you want to get started with WordPress, here’s a great way to start. For technology directors, if you are using WordPress in your district,…
Source: P2 — The New Working Several years ago I played with the original P2, a WordPress theme that worked kind of like Twitter. There was a box at the top of the page where you could post your content, and others could comment on it or scroll through the posts in reverse chronological order….
Today, a whole new range of possibility opens up: free .blog subdomains. Source: Announcing Free .blog Subdomains — The WordPress.com Blog One of the best things a teacher can do is create a website, and WordPress powers a majority of the web. So, put those two together and you can create a free website with a wordpress.com…
Find a website’s RSS feed easily with the blog-feed-finder WordPress widget. Source: GitHub – oeru/blog-feed-finder: A WordPress widget that helps a user enter a valid URL for their personal blog feed. Via: http://cogdogblog.com/2018/06/better-magic-box/ I may have mentioned RSS at one time or another. It’s the glue that is still around, and used by a majority…
TAGS – Twitter Archiving is a Google Sheet extension that can be used to collect and archive Twitter searches. This looks like a great tool for your classroom to collect tweets.
WordPress.com has released an add-on for Google Docs that allows saving a Google Doc as a draft. To get started, you will need to install add-on for Google Docs. For self-hosted WordPress sites, you will also need a WordPress.com username and have the WordPress Jetpack plugin installed. WordPress.com users already have this set up. After…
Thanks to Cloudflare‘s free SSL service, the eduk8.me website is now secured over SSL. Cloudflare is a cloud proxy system for websites, allowing the website to load faster for users while also protecting the website for denial of service or other attacks. There are two other nice features for websites when used with Cloudflare, IPv6 support…
Yesterday I wrote about the benefits of using an editorial calendar to plan out your blog posts and help you come up with ideas for posts that you want to write. Although there are many different ways of keeping an editorial calendar, I chose to use a plugin for WordPress called, coincidentally enough, Editorial Calendar….