[access-uk] Re: Blogging/Wordpress questions
- From: "Adrian Higginbotham" <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:59:27 +0100
Hi Catherine:
Can't promise to be absolutely accurate with all answers but as far as I
understand it...
1. What is pinging in the blogging context?
This relates to when other people link to your post from their own
blogs, you can opt for an alert whenever this happens.
2. slug - no idea but again it's vaguely releated to the same area, it's
about tracking posts and being able to link directly back to them.
3. categories. You can create as many categories as ou like, each time
you create a category it is added to your list of categories. When you
create a post you can choose from your list of available categories or
if you don't have an appropriate one you can add a new one. You add a
new category by typing it in to the category box and clicking the add
button. To existing categories are accompanied by checkboxes so using
jfw you can use the x key to jump between your existing categories and
use the spacebar to select appropriate ones. When you add a new
category it is automaticly selected. You can also set which category is
selected by default. If you don't set this it will default to a category
called 'uncategorised'. My understanding is that categories are the
different topicss available and that tagging is simply the process of
sellecting the appropriate categories.
4. global dashboard contains some different options but only really has
value if you have more than one blog, so for example in global dashboard
you would have links to the dashboards for each blog you manage.
5. I make heavy use of jfw quick nav key, so e to move between edit
boxes for title and main text. B to get to buttons, and x to move
between categoires that way you don't really need to spend much time
keying through the interface. For entering text there are two different
views avalable the code view and the other vieew, can't remember it's
name at present. One is like a simple text editor you type in all code
to format your entry to enter html you surround it with a code tag so
for a link you would type lessthan code greater than (with no spaces)
then your anchor ref code and then following the closing greaterthan of
your link type lessthan cde greaterthan. Using the visual layout you
can click the various buttons above the editable area and the relevant
codes are put in for you, you then just add your text however this uses
colour to suggest where you enter text so without vision requires a lot
of reviewing of the ocdes and assumes you know your html anyway so is
much slower and generally unpleasant. The editor sometimes behaves
strangely when trying to edit text so for longer posts I tend to write
the text in another application and then just copy and post in the
wordpress.
There are blogg posting applications that let you post to your blog
directly from the desk top application but I haven't yet found a good
jaws friendly one, not that I've tried more than a couple. You can
however do this n word 2007 although I've only tried it once without
much success. Must give it another go.
Adrian Higginbotham
Accessibility content manager
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Becta switchboard 02476-416994.
Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/
BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Catherine Turner
Sent: 09 October 2007 16:46
To: Access-UK
Subject: [access-uk] Blogging/Wordpress questions
Hi,
I'm setting up a blog on Wordpress and have a few questions, some of
which are about blogging in general and some more specific to using
Wordpress.
I'd be glad if anyone can answer any of them.
1. What is pinging in the blogging context?
2. What's a slug? I get asked when I want to make a post for the slug
and there's an edit box.
3. I understand there's a difference between categories and tagging,
and different people seem to have different opinions as to what that is.
My question is do you just make up the categories/tags and type them in
the edit box every time you make a post? Is there a list of categories
you can choose from? If you use a category once, can you choose it from
a list next time so you don't have to remember exactly what you called
that category last time?
4. At wordpress there are two links for dashboards - one is called my
dashboard, which seems to be the place to go to do anything you might
want to connected with posting, and the other is called global dashboard
- what is global dashboard for?
5. Any tips on using wordpress greatly appreciated.
Catherine
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