A small but useful update. You can now choose whether a link to any page you create appears on the front page of your blog. New pages will usually appear as links on the front page of your blog by default. If you don’t want that to happen, edit the page and unclick the checkbox […]
I’ve updated groups to each have a ‘Home’ tab, where all the group’s activity is summarised. Group admins can add group members’ individual blogs as feeds to this page, so that they can keep track of multiple blogs on one page. To add members’ blogs as feeds: Go to your group. Choose the Admin tab. […]
The most important information first: It’s not legal to post other peoples’ copyrighted images (or other copyrighted material) on your blog. You are strongly encouraged to use images you have created yourself, or those licensed with a Creative Commons license. If you really want to post a copyrighted image, please seek permission from the author, […]
I added the option when signing up to myblog.arts to just create an account without a blog. This should be useful for tutors and external contributors – people who might want to post to a group blog for example, but don’t need their own blog in the system. […]
Recent pictures now appear on the front page as well as extracts from recent text. Looking good on the Mac – haven’t tested it on PC yet. Let me know if it’s not displaying properly! […]
There’s now an easy option to embed videos when making a post or a page. Click on one of the icons in the text editor to embed a YouTube, Google Video or Vimeo video in your post. Paste in the URL of the video’s webpage, and you’re home and dry. […]
I’ve added in a ‘Featured Posts’ plugin which allows users to collect selected posts together on one page. This could be useful for those using blogs for assessment or feedback. To enable this feature in your blog, look at Settings -> Featured Posts in your blog’s Dashboard. […]
I removed the ‘Imbalance’ and ‘Paragrams’ themes, as they required specialised plugins. I’m trying to keep the blog dashboard as simple to use as possible, so I would like to avoid unnecessary plugins where possible. I’ll look for some other image-centric themes instead. […]
The comments weren’t working – they should be OK now. I added a couple of themes, Imbalance and Paragrams. (Thanks Paul for the tip-off.) They’re intended for image-based blogs. To have a post image feature on the front page of the blog, you will have to select a ‘featured image’ when making a new post. […]
The welcome page for new bloggers now has information about how to access your blog via the admin bar at the top of the page. Link to welcome page […]