UVM’s blog service allows any UVM student, faculty, or staff member to create and share blogs with whomever they want. Simply log in with your NetID and password, and click “Create a blog!”
Documentation
Context-sensitive help can be found within the admin dashboard of your blog by clicking the “Help” button in the upper right-hand corner.
If you would rather publish to your site from a third-party blogging tool, head over here for more information.
Full documentation can be found in the WordPress Codex.
Support
You can get community support by joining the UVM Blogging mailing list. Faculty can get more detailed support from The Center for Teaching & Learning.
Lizzy Pope said on June 29, 2011
Hi,
I’m a PhD student in the nutrition department starting a study in the fall and I’d like to have a blog for the study. I was wondering if I could get some help starting one?
Thanks!
Lizzy
Scott Dellinger said on August 16, 2011
Any UVM affiliate can have a blog (or many separate blogs, if you want) on blog.uvm.edu. All you have to do is click the “Log in” button up at the top, log in with your UVM NetID & password, and then from the home page, click on “Create a blog”.
Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education said on February 20, 2013
Is there any way I can embed videos on posts? Can you point me to documentation for it?
Thanks!
Scott Dellinger said on February 20, 2013
Sure, you can easily embed videos into your WordPress posts. Copy the URL of the page with the video you want, and paste it onto a line by itself in your post. When you publish your post, WordPress will display the video where you put its URL.
WordPress has some helpful tips like this in its Help system, which is useful but a bit too subtle to find. In the upper right corner of most screens is a Help button. Clicking this button will show help about the page you are looking at.
Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education said on March 1, 2013
Hi there! I’m trying to add my posts to Categories, but I don’t see where that’s possible. In other WordPress installations, the Categories menu is tied in with the Tags menu for each blog post. Where can I find it here?
Thanks!
Scott Dellinger said on March 1, 2013
Recent releases of WordPress have started hiding options that might be confusing to new users, but people who want them can still turn them on. In the upper right corner of the post editing page is a “Screen Options” button. Click it, and a box will slide down containing additional posting features, including tags and categories.
Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education said on March 3, 2013
Thanks! That’s sorted it entirely.
Audrey Homan said on May 16, 2013
Howdy! Any chance we can get the Badgestack plugin added? http://badgeos.org/download/get/
Scott Dellinger said on May 16, 2013
Could you tell us a little bit about how you are thinking of using BadgeOS? (BadgeStack basically sets up default rules for BadgeOS, which also needs to be installed.) It looks like a neat system; we would just want to make sure it could fully fit your needs on UVM Blogs without needing additional custom coding to add in logic for how you are thinking of having people achieve tasks and such.
Audrey Homan said on May 17, 2013
Thanks for the prompt response! We currently maintain a BadgeStack platform on a hosted site, but are interested in piloting work with the BadgeStack plugin to demonstrate to our partners how they could deploy it locally on their own WordPress sites. Our pilot would take the form of earning badges for attendance at our events (we host four large conferences and ten monthly workshops per year). Participants could earn badges for attending, presenting, and reflecting about the events. Hopefully, this would replace certificates of attendance and presentation (the current widely accepted method) and encourage sharing of resources. I can touch base with you offline if you’d like more info on the infrastructure we’re thinking, and whether it would work with UVM’s main setup.