For those with multi author blogs who would like to change which of the authors on your blog is given attribution for a post, this video will show you how.

Many blog to interact with their readers but do not know how to set their discussion settings properly. This video talks you through the options available.

*Note: The video refers to WordPress.com just replace that with blogs.ubc.ca.

This video gives a 5 minute introductory walk through to new users and is an invaluable way to get people started.

Video Source: WPMU Premium

Widgets let you customize the content that appears in the sidebar(s) of your blog. This video walks you through the basics of adding widgets.

This is an often overlooked feature of WordPress the ability to post to a future date. A very useful feature for course blogs.

Check out this video for the how-to:

Just got a couple requests asking how to upload docs in WordPress 2.7. Watch this video an note the part when the “File URL” is selected.

Uploading and displaying a link to a pdf in wordpress 2.7 from Georgian Web Team on Vimeo.

We just upgraded the UBC WordPress install which means a totally redesigned dashboard area. WordPress uses a lot of JavaScript in the dashboard so those with slow connections may experience a sluggish interface, this is where “Turbo” and Google Gears helps speed up your dashboard. Watch videos for details (Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer).

*Note former Google Gears users you may want to clear your gears cache for blogs.ubc.ca prior to upgrade and then hit the Turbo again.

Firefox

Safari

Internet Explorer

On Sunday, May 3rd, from 7 to 9 AM we will upgrade WP to 2.7.1.

Try to avoid posting during this time as you might experience a short service interruption.

While WP 2.7.1 does provide sleeker and friendlier interface, its dashboard interface is quite different from the previous WP.

Try to invest a few minutes to learn about the new dashboard – all the goodies are there but they are positioned differently.

Here is a great video about 2.7.:

And another one, specifically about dashboard changes:

More excellent documentation can be found here.

If you experience any difficulties, please email our blog support.

For those late night bloggers out there you may notice a server slow down between 3-3:30am daily, this is when our systems maintenance scripts are run. We are hoping to do some server infrastructure changes over the summer so this is will no longer be noticeable to the end user.

Is your blog not in sync with your local time setting?

Here is the instruction on how to configure daylight saving time on your blog.

1. Click on the Settings tab and that will bring you to the General Settings page
2. Scroll down until you see Timezone, you will see that it is set to UTC -8 hour
   
3. Change the time setting to UTC -7, save the change and that’s it