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Blog and Reblog – Woodie Knows WordPress!
February 22, 2012
Hidey ho my non-furred friends! It’s been raining here the past few days, so I came out of my hole to dry out a bit at Carrie’s. A little spin dry in the big white machine felt WONDERFUL! (And now my fur is downy soft too!)
Last week we discussed the LIKE button on the admin bar. This week, we’re moving on to the REBLOG button. The reblog button only appears when you’re logged in to WP. So, if you aren’t logged in, we’ll wait.
Stilllllll waiting.
C’mon Princess, the whole class is waiting! Ok, there we go!
Now everyone can see their reblog button. Don’t poke it! Let me tell you what it does first.
So, you’re visiting your friends blog, and she says something AMAZING – as of course they all do – and you want all of YOUR readers to know about it, click the reblog button.
Automatically WP will show the first image on the post, the URL the post came from, a small excerpt, thumbnails from the remaining photos used and any comment YOU, the reblogger might have left.
What happens when someone reblogs part of your post? You’ll get a notification of it in your comments – like a pingback. Sometimes you might have to approve it first, so check it carefully.
The goal here in reblogging is to share your friends posts with your other friends posts. Thereby creating an even bigger circle of commenters and bloggers to the tribe. And isn’t that what most authors are after?
But yes, it can be used for bad. But, lets not think about that now, eh? =)
You can further reblog a reblogged blog. Try to say that three times fast while dining on baby carrots! (High paw, Carrie!) It will include your friends comment, however, and not your own. If you’ve got nothing to add, then no problem! You’d be promoting the original blogger AND your friend who commented.
If you want to edit a reblog, you can – to a point. You can edit YOUR stuff, not your friends. But if you mis-spelled orangutan in the first comments section, you can change it when you reblog. Just go to posts> all posts and voila, there it is. Add in tags and categories if you want!
Ok friends, go forth and begin your reblogging!
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I LIKE You – I REALLY Like You! – Woodie Knows WordPress
February 15, 2012
Greetings one and all! I’m sorry I missed out on last week – deep in hibernation and my alarm didn’t go off! That’s what happens after too much partying on Woodchuck Day. =)
Some of you might have noticed – if you’re on WordPress.com – that there’s a new couple buttons in your admin bar across the top of your page. No need to panic, Woodie’s here to show you what they mean.
First up, is the LIKE button. If you click the LIKE button while reading a post, that information is passed on to the website author – who then knows how many people actually liked what he wrote. Once you LIKE a post, the button then changes to read UNLIKE. Rude, eh? But yes, you can actually change your mind.
Assuming you’re staying with LIKE – this above is the type of screen you’ll get. Your icon will appear in the list with others who’ve liked the post as well. To find which posts you’ve liked, you’ll need to make sure you’re signed in to your WP account, then go to http://www.wordpress.com.
At the main page, you’ll see a variety of tabs. Click on Posts I Like.
A window opens, showing the posts you’ve liked along the way, so you can revisit them again! Favorite recipes, posts about writing, an especially excellent joke, are now here at your fingertips.
If you’re done viewing the post, then click UNLIKE and poof, it won’t be in your Posts I Like section anymore.
LIKE buttons are generally at the bottom of each post as well, but you can change your settings in Dashboard>Settings>Sharing.
You can also turn off the LIKE button on individual posts, simply by clicking the box under the post itself.
There you go! Now get out there and LIKE somebody!
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Blavatars – the WordPress Gravatar – Woodie knows WordPress
February 1, 2012
Well well well! It’s about time we got some snow here! *shaking it off my paws* Good thing I’ve got the wood burner in the burrow, or it might be a little chilly! And Carrie made me a little quilt for my bed, so I’m snug as a rodent in a rug!
Today we’re going to talk about Blavatars. What on earth is a Blavatar? It’s the WordPress version of a Gravatar. So let’s dig in. (get it? dig? woodchuck?)
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Ok, right where you see the big blue W? Yup, that’s where our blavatar is going to go.
So first, lets pick out an image. I’m going to use this one. Mom took my picture last year on February 2nd. Don’t I look handsome?
Now it’s not too big, but it’s also not square. No problemo. WordPress is going to let us fix that.
Go to your dashboard, then Settings> General.
You’ll see this graphic.
Go ahead and click Browse, then navigate to the image you want to use. then upload.
The next screen will let you crop your graphic. Just move the white box around with your mouse.
Click crop image, and tada!! You have a blavatar!
It may take a moment or two to appear, but it will. It will also show up in the URL bar of browsers, and as a favicon on browser tabs. If someone creates a bookmark with your URL, it will show up there too!
Is that not cool? =)
Enjoy your new Blavatar!
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Oh and one more thing …..
HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY A DAY EARLY!!! hehehehe
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Moving from Blogger to WordPress – It’s Time – Woodie knows WordPress
January 25, 2012
So, you’ve been thinking about moving to WordPress eh? You’ve played with Blogger and decide it’s time to move on, bigger and better things. Kind of like when you got stuck with all those Beta tapes when everyone else went VHS.
Well, no more. I’m sneaking from my burrow to share a quick tidbit or two. Thank goodness for warm weather in Iowa, or there’s no way you’d get him from in front of his fireplace!
So, first of all, go to WordPress.com and sign up. Ah ah ah! Before you starting whining- Woodie HOW do I sign up, read here…
WordPress for Non-Techies
Once you’re signed up, then go back to your blogger account, and click export blog from the Settings/Basic tab.
Save this file somewhere super duper important. No, not there. Not there either! Yes, there…that’ll do it.
Now go to your brand spanking new WordPress.com site you just opened up.
Go to Tools> Import and choose Blogger. (see how easy this is?)
Now on the next screen, it says Have a Blogger export file? Well, of course you do!
Remember where you hid it? Click the browse button, find it, then click Upload file and import.
On this next screen, make sure you tick this box.
And th-th-th-that’s all folks. =)
Now if you’re thinking of moving from Blogger to WordPress.org?
That’s a whole different bunch of pansies. Stay tuned for another episode of . . . dum dum dum!!!! Woodie knows WordPress!
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Adding a Poll to your site – It’s election year! – Woodie Knows WordPress
January 18, 2012
Everyone knows it’s election year. All I have to do is turn on the big screen in the burrow and there it is. One candidate after another fighting it out. And the phone calls. Oy. The phone never stops ringing in here! (and burrows echo!)
Now suppose, just for instance, you wanted to have your own poll on your very own website! How cool is that? And so simple, even a candidate could figure it out.
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Okay, so first we’re going to go to our dashboard and click POLLS. This window here will pop up
If you’ve never created a poll, you’ll choose Auto-create a new account (recommended). And then click the DO IT! button.
Click on the blue Create a Poll Now button.
Okay, nobody panic! We’re going to take this one step at a time. Breathe into a paper bag over there lady, you sound like a freight train!
In the very top box, we’re putting in the question you want to ask for your poll. No question? No need for a poll. So our question is – Who would you REALLY like for president?
Now notice, on the right side of this box, you can add an image or what have you. Maybe a nice flag photo would work, but think small!
Now the next 3 boxes are your pre-given answers to the questions. So in the first box, we’ll put it ….say, Farmer in the Dell. He’s a great guy, really good with animals and has quite the repertoire of barnyard sounds. In the second box we’ll say Johnny Depp. Why Johnny Depp? He reminds me of a woodchuck. Big teeth, nice smile. Drooping whiskers. Now in the third box, we’ll put in *he says oh-so-casually* Woodie the Woodchuck.
Quit giggling over there.
Under the third box is a Add New Answer button. You can now have four choices, or five even for your guests to choose from.
Here’s what your page will look like now.
The little blue arrows on the side of the answers? You can use those to drag and drop the answers to a higher or lower position.
Now we’re going to pick a style. Use the big blue arrows to go forward and back between the 20+ styles polldaddy has.
Underneath it lets you choose wide (if you’re inserting it into a post) medium (for a small section of your post) and narrow (for a sidebar)
On the right hand side of your screen, you’ll notice these settings
The top one lets you show the results to the voters – after they’ve voted of course – or hide all the vote results or show a percentage.
The middle one I always choose block by cookie – or someone could stack the votes. Imagine if Johnny or Raquel found out they could vote non-stop? They’d be voting on my blog Every. Single. Day. trying to become president!
The bottom one is up to you, whether you’d like to allow comments or not on your poll. If your poll is part of your blog post, you can regulate the comments there as well.
Finally, we’ll save our post.
From here you have a few more options – do you want to let people write in their own option? Put a share this button with it? Allow people to choose more than one answer?
When you’ve decided, click the Save Poll Button.
Nothing happened, right? Aww..buck up little sailor, I’ll show you what to do next!
Waaaaay at the top of your page, right under your poll question is this
If you click “Embed poll in new post” a new post is created right in front of your very eyes and all you have to do is hit publish and it’s live.
OR
you can copy the shortcode which is listed in the brackets [polldaddy ] and copy and paste that into a post you already have made.
Voila! One poll made and ready to roll out the red carpet! You can see the final results here http://www.ccspencer.wordpress.com
Hail to Chief Woodie!!!
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