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Settings Overview

Click on the Settings Menu in your dashboard to configure your blog. The Settings Menu is available through the Advanced Admin Interface. Clicking on ‘Settings’ will take you to the General settings page and also expand the menu so that you can access the other settings on your blog. During this article we will just [...]

Switching between the Easy and Advanced Admin Interfaces

We all know that doing anything fancy involving IT is not always the easiest thing in the world. Also if you’re encouraging younger students to use technology in the classroom you want to keep things as simple as possible. That’s why by default when you create a new blog you’ll be presented with the Easy Admin Interface, which is a simplified version of the full [...]

Managing Comments (Easy Admin Interface)

One of the fantastic things about blogs is the ability to allow readers to comment on blog posts. However blog administrators need a way of managing and moderating the comments to make sure that they are approriate. How readers comment depends on your privacy and discussion settings (explained later), but the managing of individual comments remain the same [...]

Writing a New Page (Easy Admin Interface)

So now you’re going to talk to me about Pages, err what are Pages and how are they different from Posts? Well check out this article explaining posts and pages. Essentially posts are articles on a specific topic that move down your blog as newer posts are written. Pages are used for general information relating to [...]

Managing Posts (Easy Admin Interface)

So, you’ve written a few posts and your blog is starting to take shape, but maybe there is one post that is now out of date and you want to edit or delete it. Or perhaps you’re administering a blog with several authors (such as students) and you need to read and approve their posts [...]

Writing a New Post (Easy Admin Interface)

Writing a post or administering your blog is done through the Admin Interface or Dashboard. By default you’ll be presented with the Easy Admin Interface, which is a simplified version of the main interface which allows you to carry out most of the day to day things with your blog, such as write and manage [...]

Using the Quickstart Wizard

To help you set up your blog quickly and easily you can use the Easy Admin Quickstart Wizard. It’s a step by step wizard that goes through choosing the theme for your blog (the look and feel) and writing your first post. Choose either Advanced or Easy Admin. The first time you log into your [...]