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New themes added

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

We’ve added additional themes to our ever-growing list of templates for your WordPress MU web site. Click the name of the theme below to see a preview:

Like all WordPress themes, these were developed by third parties outside of Baylor University. If you encounter any technical problems when using any of these new themes, please contact Lance_Grigsby@baylor.edu.

Post Password, “Open link in new Window” features fixed

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Some of you may have noticed that the “Post Password” feature for pages/posts was not working. In addition, you may have also noticed that when you selected “Open link in new window”when you attempted to create a link, the link would not open in a new window. Both of these features are now fixed …

Use HotBar? If so, please uninstall it …

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

It appears that HotBar, a graphical “skin” for Internet Explorer, causes the text editor in WordPress (officially, the TinyMCE editor) to behave erratically. If you’re not sure if you have HotBar or not, take a look at your browser’s toolbar–if it looks something like this, you’ve got HotBar.

The main problem occurs when a user with HotBar attempts to write or edit a post/page: Simply clicking in this content area will produce extraneous HTML table code. The coding may be removed manually using code view, but the real solution is to uninstall HotBar (which is considered to be Adware). A typical uninstallation of this program will resolve the issue, but please see this Web site for more thorough removal instructions from Symantec.

New video plugins added

Friday, August 17th, 2007

New video plugins will now allow you to post Flash, YouTube, and Google movies in your WordPress MU posts. The KIMILI FLASH EMBED and WORDPRESS VIDEO plugins must be enabled in your dashboard in order for you to use them. To do this, click the “Plugins” link at the top and activate the desired plugins.

  • To use the Kimili plugin, simply cut and past the code provided on the plugin page and supply the path to your .swf file. You have to upload your file first and send it to the editor to retrieve the link.
  • To use the WordPress Video plugin, use the following code in your post: [service ID]. For example, [youtube 988c98c7] or [google 3203596276754701357]. The video ids can be found after the last “=” sign in the URLs of the video you want (and with YouTube videos, be sure to include the underscore prior to the ID).

‘Connections Reloaded’ theme fixed

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

For you folks who like “Connections Reloaded,” we’ve fixed the bug that caused it to fail in Firefox. Enjoy …

Rich HTML editor not available in Safari for Mac

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Attention Mac users: Unfortunately, the rich HTML editor in WordPress is not available on the Macintosh version of Safari. This apparently is due to a bug in Safari, not WordPress. Please use Firefox, Opera, or Netscape to use this feature. For more information, see this article.

Want to learn more about using WordPress?

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Join us for an informative seminar on Wednesday, Aug. 15, from 3 to 5 p.m. to learn more about how to make your personal Web site in WordPress! To sign up for this seminar, visit Baylor’s professional development Web site at http://www.baylor.edu/pod.

Welcome to WordPress!

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

WordPress is an outstanding content management/website/blogging tool that is now available to all Baylor faculty and staff members. It is the solution of choice for personal websites.