Hints for New Bloggers:
Change Category: by default the category will be Announcements– but if every post is in Announcements and not Language Arts, History or Math, etc., then category links in the sidebar (one of WordPress’s most powerful content-management-tools) will be useless. As you make a new post if you save draft before you choose history or math, etc. it will default to Announcement… so best to get in the habit of choosing the category/ies when you open a new post window.
Enlarge Photo: we want photos to be as large as possible, but not so large that they break out of the frame–no more than 1000 px wide and they should be 72 dpi. You can batch edit the size of multiple photos in Preview* photo editing program that comes with your mac… or when making slideshows and importing multiple images through gallery, choose the reduce to 800 X ? option… *Note; you can set Preview to a custom width of
no more than 1000″ and it will remember it.
Add Title! Can’t forget to add a title to each blog–that’s what shows up in search, in Latest Posts, etc.
Making Doc Links open in New Window: if you choose open in new window it leaves your blog post open in a tab while student or parent looks at the syllabus, etc. they are downloading.