Comments on: Help http://blog.uvm.edu The UVM Community Fri, 17 May 2013 13:11:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Audrey Homan http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-7781 Audrey Homan Fri, 17 May 2013 13:11:22 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-7781 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.

]]> By: Scott Dellinger http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-7748 Scott Dellinger Thu, 16 May 2013 18:12:57 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-7748 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.

]]> By: Audrey Homan http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-7745 Audrey Homan Thu, 16 May 2013 15:25:42 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-7745 Howdy! Any chance we can get the Badgestack plugin added? http://badgeos.org/download/get/

]]> By: Tarrant Institute http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-6672 Tarrant Institute Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:27:49 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-6672 Thanks! That’s sorted it entirely.

]]> By: Scott Dellinger http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-6656 Scott Dellinger Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:32:47 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-6656 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.

]]> By: Tarrant Institute http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-6654 Tarrant Institute Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:19:40 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-6654 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!

]]> By: Scott Dellinger http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-6557 Scott Dellinger Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:21:47 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-6557 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.

]]> By: Tarrant Institute http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-6556 Tarrant Institute Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:05:14 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-6556 Is there any way I can embed videos on posts? Can you point me to documentation for it?

Thanks!

]]> By: Scott Dellinger http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-682 Scott Dellinger Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:35:49 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-682 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”.

]]> By: Lizzy Pope http://blog.uvm.edu/about/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Lizzy Pope Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:38:57 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/about/#comment-217 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

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