Before you get started blogging from your iPad, you first need to enable XML-RPC.  This option can be found under Site’s Dashboard -> Settings -> Writing.  ( tutorial here ) First, you’ll need to download the WordPress App from the App Store. After the first time you open the App, it will pop up a window.  Of the [...]

By default, the landing page for your site is going to be a few of your latest posts.  However, you can change it so that the landing page for your site is a page of your choosing, and have your posts appear on a different page. To do this, you must go to Site’s Dashboard -> [...]

Press This is a neat “bookmarklet” that allows you to quickly post about stuff from the web.  Imagine that you’re wandering around some blogs and you happen upon a really neat article that you’d like to make a post about.  This tool makes that process very simple. First you go to Site’s Dashboard -> Tools -> [...]

Quickpress is a handy feature that can be seen right when you first get to your site’s dashboard.  It’s a very stripped down editor that allows you to post something quickly to your blog.  While it doesn’t have all the fancy bells and whistles of the actual editor, it’s great if you needed to post something [...]

We have an iCal calendar feed plugin called “amr events calendar or lists with ical files”.  It is not on by default, so in order to use it, you have to go to Site’s Dashboard -> Posts -> Plugins and activated it. This plugin allows you to put a feed of whatever .ics calendar file that [...]

The TinyMCE Advanced Editor plugin adds a great deal of button tools to your post editor.  By default we’ve chosen the buttons what we feel would be the most useful, but feel free to pick and choose whatever buttons you would like. First of all, while this plugin may soon be on by default, if it [...]

Just to clear up some initial confusion, this is not a plugin to embed Google Docs.  This plugin uses the Google Docs program to embed your PDF or Word documents onto your site.  Let me show you what I mean. I have a .pdf file stored at (http://blogs.edutech.nodak.edu/wordpressadvanced/files/2012/02/edusocial.pdf) and I want it to be embedded [...]

The plugin Viper’s Video Quicktags makes embedding video from many sources quite easy.  This plugin is auto-activated on any new site that is created within EduSocial.  However, if you have an older site, you might not have it activated and should go to Posts->Plugins to turn it on. By default, the video quicktag buttons will appear [...]

Embedding content from many differed media sites is often as easy as copying the url of the video straight into your blog post like this (that’s the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somenummbers_and_letters): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA However, sometimes your browser might try to hyperlink the url right into your post like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA In order to clean that link up, you need to switch [...]

In order to enable remote publishing from a variety of different clients, you must enable the “XML-RPC” option in the site’s dashboard under Settings -> Writing

Many of the different clients can be found in the following list:  Client List

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EduTech staff will be in training Monday afternoon, February 6 and all day Tuesday, February 7. During this time, help desk support will be limited. Self-service tickets and e-mail issues sent to sendit.helpdesk@sendit.nodak.edu will be addressed as availability permits. Voicemail messages will be returned Wednesday, February 8 during regular business hours. Network and PowerSchool server [...]

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