Pingo Lingo

Thaw, resolve, adieu…(English 30)

Look for a category “Personal Psychology” in the sidebar at http://iblog.stjschool.org/snowflake/.
Pick and choose.
Trackback here.
Thanks, adieu.

Tags: Hamlet, iblog, personal psychology, resolve, sidebar, thaw
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Looking for News

Try the following suggestions to increase your daily intake of news feeds.

Surf the latest headlines from all over the world. Results are based on google search rankings, the larger the font –> the more hits in google, I recall. Headlines link to an array of news organizations.
Aggregate a few headlines from, say, cbc.ca/rss in your [...]

Tags: blog, Blogging Tips, CTS 9, English 20, google, Hypermedia Tools INF01070, iblog, Information Highway2 INF0220, Pedagogy 2.0, result, sidebar, stj, view
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In the News(CTS bloggers)

CBC RSS feeds. Browse the many RSS feed categories. Select at least one to be added to your blog’s sidebar.

Copy(right-click or control-click) a feed url from CBC RSS feeds.
Go to Dashboard–>Presentation–>Sidebar Widgets–>Add RSS widgets.
Drag RSS widget to your sidebar.
Paste the url into the RSS widget.
Save and view site.

Tags: blog, bloggers, Blogging Tips, CTS 9, dashboard, English 9, Hypermedia Tools INF01070, Information Highway2 INF0220, Man, presentation, right, sidebar, view
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Creat a Sitemap for your blog

Write a page(not a post). Title it Sitemap.
You’ll find the code here that you’ll need to paste into your page.
Enter Sitemap as the Page Slug.
Disable Comments and Pings.
Publish.
Go to Dashboard–>Options–>DDSitemapGen.
Enter the same Slug, update.
Add the link to the sitemap via your theme’s menu or sidebar or add a Pages widget.

Tags: blog, CTS 9, dashboard, Information Highway2 INF0220, map, sidebar, theme, Word Processing INFO1030
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New features Gallery2 and Subscribe2

Gallery2 integration works, mostly. Well the sidebar and full page embedding works, more to come. Activate WPG2 by pointing it to http://stjschool.org/gallery2/ and it should autodetect the rest. Then place the STJ Galley widget in your sidebar.
Subscribe2 allows you to email, automagically, site updates(a new post for example) to your subscribers. A new Subscribe link [...]

Tags: Blogging Tips, CTS 10, footer, Graphic Tools INF01040, Hypermedia Tools INF01070, Information Highway2 INF0220, sidebar, stj, Troubleshooting, Word Processing INFO1030
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Moving, Graduating, Take your blog with you.

In your dashboard, under ‘Options/Reading’, you need to check that the number of posts under ‘Syndication feeds’ is set to At LEAST the number of posts in your blog, and that the feed is set to ‘Full text’ before saving it as an .xml file.(look for the xml link in browser bar or meta somewhere [...]

Tags: blog, Blogging Tips, dashboard, footer, sidebar, theme, wit, xml file
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New Widgets for Widget Enabled Themes

Quick SMS has evolved into “Snow-Mobile.” It’s still a cell phone text messenger, though.
Created a “Snowblower.” Look at snowflakes for a demonstration.
Enjoy.
PS. Thanks for your patience, if dropping Quick SMS borked your theme with a fatal error it’s not all that fatal. Click on “Sidebar Widgets” in your Dashboard and all is well again.
Out,
D. Sader

Tags: blog, Blogging Tips, dashboard, iblog, sidebar, stj, theme, wit
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Found snow mold

I have noticed some themes generate error messages under certain conditions. I am trying to fix code so broken themes, widgets, and plugins work perfectly.
The most popular errors in the server logs are when widgets are used to display content you haven’t created yet. For example, including a recent comments widget in your sidebar, before [...]

Tags: blog, Blogging Tips, content, iblog, Man, Manage, result, sidebar, stj, theme, use
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Do you want to send free text messages to a cell phone?

Look for the Quick SMS widget on any theme that has sidebar widgets. Mine works(vmobile.ca). I need someone to verify that the Telus Mobility widget works, too. If your provider is not listed, and you want it, let me know. Receiving texts messages on my cell phone, for me, is free. It’s sending them [...]

Tags: Blogging Tips, CTS 10, English 30, Hypermedia Tools INF01070, Information Highway2 INF0220, sidebar, theme, use
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Ten Minute Spill

Write a ten-line poem. Find a proverb, adage, familiar phrase, or brainy quote that you have changed in some way as well as five of the following words: cliff, blackberry, needle, cloud, voice, mother, whir, lick.
You have ten minutes.
No rhyming.
P.S.
We will be practising poetry posting permanently. Please create categories in your sidebars to begin sorting [...]

Tags: brain, change, dashboard, English 10, Man, Manage, phrase, poe, poem, poet, Poetry, sidebar, Voice
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