You can fine tune your comment blocking strategy by using custom spam filters, blocking any comment based on keywords of your choosing.
Note that any comment that contains any of the blocked words will automatically be blacklisted.
One of the really cool things that WordPress 3.0 includes is the ability to create custom menus. You can build your menu from any combination of Page, Category or Custom URL. This takes the organization and presentation of your content to a whole ‘nother level. Seriously.
Enjoy your new menu!
Here are the most common solutions to FTP problems you may have with the education webserver:
If these tips don’t help, check if you can reach the webserver itself. Try browsing to your website, if you cannot view your website in your browser, try viewing another website on the server like http://kapalama.ksbe.edu. If you can’t view any of these websites, you may have been blocked by the webserver’s IDS (Intrusion Detection System). Don’t feel bad, this is an unfortunate by-product of server security: a balancing act of trying to keep the bad guys out while allowing the good guys in. Contact the Help Desk and request to be removed from the blocklist.
When creating videos for posting to your KS Blog, you’ll need to keep the filesize of the video file around 6 MB.
Here are some options you can use to try and compress your video without losing too much quality. When exporting or saving your video:
You can also embed videos posted to other video sharing websites such as YouTube or Vimeo by following the instructions here.
How to embed Voicethread (and other flash) videos:
Note that this will not work for all flash video sites, it depends on how open the video site chooses to be.
1. Copy embed code from Voicethread, find URL to video within the embed code (highlighted text):
2. When writing new Post, click on Flash button (silver f, second from right) in toolbar:
3. Paste in URL from embed code:
4. Enter 400 for width, then 300 for height when prompted.
5. Publish your post and test.
6. Pau!
Congratulations, this means that your KS Blog has found its way into the blogosphere. Once a blog gains “visibility” in search engines it will become the target of comment spam ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Comment_Spam).
The good news is by default, comments are moderated, so they never make it to the blog’s public view (please do not change this setting). The blog admin simply has to delete the offending comments. We are currently using several anti-spam technologies which catch most of the comment spam, but some will still make it through. This is a normal part of blogging.
1. Click on the yellow “A” or “Media” button on the toolbar:
2. Paste in the YouTube video URL, then click OK:
3. Publish your post and enjoy!
Ever wanted to share documents on your blog? Posting PDF or Word documents can be a snap, just create a new Page or Post and follow the instructions below:
On the Add New Post page, above the area where you enter your post contents you’ll see the Add Media section:
Click on the star icon (last one), then browse to the file you want to upload, select it then click on Upload. Enter a caption or description if you want to (it’s optional), then click on the Insert into Post button on the bottom. If the Link URL field is blank, you’ll need to first click on the File URL button before clicking on Insert into Post.
A hyperlink to your document will be created in your post. Pau!
You can reset your Blackboard password using the following steps:
