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  • FeedWordPress

    The FeedWordPress plugin lets you include external RSS feeds into your blog post stream.   This plugin is especially useful if you teaching a course, and want to aggregate content from individual student blogs into one central post stream, where class … Continue reading →

  • Embed Book Jackets and Links with Openbook

    The OpenBook WordPress plugin provides a convenient way to embed book jackets, publishing metadata, and links to places where you can purchase the book. OpenBook gathers its information from OpenLibrary. Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data … Continue reading →

  • Embedding Videos in Posts and Pages

    Introduction Embedding video clips is a great way to increase your site’s appeal. Unfortunately, the Commons does not have the bandwidth to “host” your videos. You will need to use an external service such as Vimeo or YouTube. Both of … Continue reading →

  • Text Expander Plugin

    “Text Expander” is a simple and handy tool that lets you toggle back and forth between showing and hiding a chunk of content on your post or page. Once you activate the plugin, you will notice a new icon (circled … Continue reading →

  • Subscribe2 Plugin

    As you may know,  the Subscription Option WordPress plug-in as a great way to feed out your blog posts to Facebook, Twitter, RSS, and email. You can follow this link to see more information on this plug-in, and see how it generates … Continue reading →

  • Widget Context

    The Widget Context WordPress plugin provides extra control over sidebar widgets. It is really useful for selectively displaying certain widgets in the sidebar on only specific pages. This is helpful for drawing the focus to content on your content pages and filling the sidebar with social media on the blog page. Though it works well…

  • Subscription Options

      The Subscription Options plug-in is available to all Commons members from the dashboard of their blogs (just click on “Plugins” in the left-hand menu and search for “subscription options”). The plugin will help you create icons like this, which … Continue reading →

  • How to Add New Users to a Site

    A site can be configured to have one or many contributors, and WordPress allows granularity in the permissions users are assigned. Listed below are roles and their permissions: Administrator – has access to all the administrative duties Editor – can … Continue reading →

  • WIKI INC

    Using the WordPress plug-in “WIKI INC” you can include wiki content in your blog post or page. After installing, on your post or page edit screen, scroll down to the Wiki Inc section and fill in the wiki site (must be MediaWiki sites like Wikipedia) and the name of the wiki page Continue reading →

  • WordPress Tutorials & Links

    WPCandy tutorials – WPCandy has many useful tutorials that provide tips on configuring your blog. FLOSS – general how-to manual for WordPress (in TWIKI format) WordPress.org – Here you will find complete documentation for WordPress, including available plug-ins and themes … Continue reading →