Notes From The Training Sessions
Slideshow sets for this year’s WordPress 101 and WordPress 201 sessions.
Using Widgetized Blocks in the Vertex Theme
One of the things you can do in the Vertex theme is put a WordPress widget anywhere you like. These can be just blocks of text, or they can utilize any of the features that your plug-in set might provide.
Guide to Social Media Integration
Here’s a very detailed article from WPMU on various tactics and options.
Your Image Thumbnails — You Can Control the Cropping
A new plugin, “my eyes are up here,” lets you control how your images are cropped for thumbnails. The built-in system isn’t very smart; it essentially takes the central part of your image, squares it off, and crops off the top/bottom or left/right....
Locking Down Your Uploaded Attachments
Even if you’re running a private blog, your file attachments aren’t as secure as you might like. Your or your users can innocently copy-and-paste a link to a PDF file into an e-mail … which gets passed around … then somebody puts it in a Twitter or Facebook post … and before you know it the file you wanted to keep just for your selected audience has been indexed by Google!
Making Your Blog Mobile-Ready
Everyone’s going mobile — are you ready?
WordPress Tools For Digital Humanities
Both of these are very specialized tools, with more than a few quirks. Especially in Annotum, the learning curve is fairly steep and prone to trial-and-error. But they impose sensible workflow solutions and organize information in a way that a standard theme or plug-in does not.
Learn More
“Video Tutorials” gives you access to a large library of professionally produced training videos on a range of WordPress topics. Just log in to your dashboard and look for it in the top-left section.
How-To Video Training
We’ve gotten some instructional videos to help you get the most out of your WordPress site. Click through to read more about posts and pages, your media library, how to manage your widgets and menus, and your categories and tags.
SHU Logos and Graphic Standards
Branding your blog with Seton Hall’s logo helps leverage the University’s identity, improving the visibility of your blog as well as enhancing the quantity of University-branded content on the Web. We have a few resources that can help. Review the Branding...
Updated: Twitter Hashtags In Your Sidebar
A new way you can use the Twitter Hashtag Feed Widget on your blog, and display a feed of hash-tag friendly results.
Custom CSS
Today we’re introducing a new plugin you can use to add custom CSS code to your blog. It’s called “My Custom CSS,” and you should already see it under the Appearance menu on your dashboard.
Events Made Easy
If your blog needs to run a calendar of events, we offer the Events Made Easy plugin. Just activate it from your dashboard and you can get started quickly. But it offers a lot more. Here’s a blog post with lots of examples and how-tos.
Sidebar Login Is Back!
The latest update of the Sidebar Widget works nicely with our systems. If you want an easy way to log in from your blog’s home screen, just follow this simple recipe.
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