Category: Tips
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Gutenberg – the new post editor for WordPress
WordPress was recently upgraded to version 5.0.3 on blog.ryerson.ca. With this upgrade came a new editor for posts and pages, known as ‘Gutenberg’. Since August, blog administrators have been able to activate a Gutenberg plugin for their blog, to give them a preview of what was coming. In this post, we will cover some of…
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Feature Update: Password Protect Your Blog
We are happy to announce that blog administrators can now password protect their blogs. This allows you to assign a single password to control access to your blog, offering a level of privacy that we didn’t have previously. This is great news for sites that contain private content that is meant to be shared with…
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Twitterfy Your Blog
Did you know that your blog and your Twitter account can work together? Adding some Twitter elements to your blog can pool together the audience for your blog with the audience for your Twitter account. Not only is it a way to promote on both platforms, but a way to generate interesting comments, and broaden…
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Embedding Videos – The Easy Way!
Do you ever use your blog to share videos you find on sites like Youtube or Vimeo? There’s a really easy way to embed videos from some of the more popular video hosting sites – just paste the URL of the video. Until recently, we had to copy and paste the embed code from a…
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Dealing with Blog Spam
We recently updated our article on “Dealing with Spam“, offering some tips and tricks to limiting spam on your blog. Blogging can be a time consuming process – and our time should be spent working on great content and a nice interface. Instead, we find ourselves taking time to check a never-ending list of what…