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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: LINKS ON SITE—WHAT TO DOIf you want to find out what the RSS thing is all about, go sign up at one of those online RSS sites. My favourite of those is Bloglines.
Bloglines will start you off with a few sample RSS feeds. These are extracts from a blog – you can read these extracts (feeds) from lots of blogs, all in one happy place. You only click through to the blog entry if it looks interesting. This can save you a lot of time – you can keep up with lots of sites all within your RSS reader, without having to go to each site to see if there’s been an update.
Once you’ve signed up with Bloglines or some similar place, try subscribing to the RSS feed from your own site. Then you’ll see why users would want to do this, and it’ll give you an idea of why you might want to keep that RSS link there on your blog.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t edit or write pagesThis is fixed now. It seems to have been related to another problem I had. The cause? First I installed WordPress, and then I uploaded a new .htaccess file. I didn’t realize that WordPress adds some stuff to the bottom of the .htaccess file. By overwriting that, I broke all kinds of stuff and caused myself much grief.
The fix was to replace my .htaccess file with a blank .htaccess file. Then, within WordPress 2.0, I went to Options> Permalinks, and clicked the “update permalink structure button. That writes the important stuff WP needs to the .htaccess file. Problem solved!
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: New To Blogging and Few QuestionsI love the idea of having blogs set up for staff memebers. That way these people will be able to do their own stuff, which would be great both for you and for them. 🙂 And RSS is extremely handy – I agree with you there.
I think a good place to start would be for you to set up a blog for yourself so that you’ll be able to play around with it. In fact, I’d suggest that you blog daily for a month or two before you set up blogs for others. You’ll want to figure out how stuff works, how to change various options, where the glitches are, how to avoid said glitches, etc, before you have to deal with support questions.
Consider whether it would be best for each staff person to have a blog, or whether a group blog might be better. Or maybe do both? If I were getting staff members started blogging, I’d give them each two blogs: one for personal/testing use, and one for work stuff. That way they’d all have a playground for testing things out. (Of course you’ll want to advise them about any content guidelines your school district has.)
Are you dealing with teachers? If so, you might want to create a page linking to blogs by teachers, and blogs maintained by students in various classes. There are lots of blogs used in educational settings these days.
Good luck! I’d love to hear about what you decide and how it all works out.