Part 1 – The WordPress Bit

We had a great session today looking through some features from WordPress.com and free utilities and ideas from Google and from Microsoft. To round off a very useful session we got a dormant twitter user up and running

Here are the links and notes from the session. (Some of these are elsewhere on my blog, and some go out to other web sites).

Blogging in school?

Make sure you check this box – someone needs to be in charge of comments. On the dashboard, select settings, discussions and tick this box-

Want your blog to look like a web site?

For your blog to have a ‘static’ front page, and still be able to your blog posts, make a new PAGE called Posts then select this option in dashboard –> settings –>reading

I don’t want search engines to find my blog

Dashboard –> settings-> privacy

Use the second option and simply give your blog address to people. if you use the third option remember that you’ll have to define the users to WordPress (may take a bit of effort).

How do I get that Tweet button on the blog post

The new sharing option appears to have replaced this (in the time between showing it today and writing this blog!).

In the dashboard below the settings menu there’s a whole tab called sharing. Please could someone look a this post and tweet it!