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Glow Blogs & Bluesky

Bluesky is a new social app/ system. You can use Bluesky content in your Glow Blog in a few different ways.

Embed

Embed a Bluesky post in a post or page. All you need to do is paste the link to a post on Bluesky into the blog editor. In the block editor you might want to use the Bluesky block, but you do not need to.

If you want a bit of a preview you can use the Add Media Button and then Insert from URL in the classic editor.

Example

Show the Feed

Bluesky supports RSS so you can bring an RSS feed from bluesky into Glow Blogs. It is a bit tricky to find the RSS feed from Bluesky. You can either look at the source code of the page! or use another service to find it quickly. RSS Lookup – Find RSS feeds on any URL

For example the url for Education Scotland Learning for Sustainability is

https://bsky.app/profile/edscotlfs.bsky.social

And RSS lookup converts this to

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6pvw4rinhpc6ajw62quevvkw/rss

You can use that is an RSS widget on a classic theme, or by using the RSS widget in a block post or page. You can use the block in a Site Editor theme too.

Here is the RSS block with the above url:

  • Global Outdoor Learning Day 21 Nov celebrates the impact of the outdoors on education & personal development. Global Outdoor Learning Day brings together educators & individuals to show how outdoor learning benefits physical well-being, mental […]
  • Outdoor Classroom Day is 6 November! It's a global movement to make time outdoors part of every child’s day. If you’re looking for outdoor lesson ideas for school, play ideas or guidance on making outdoor […]
  • East Lothian Outdoor Learning’s Adventure On scheme enabled young people to live more fulfilled, healthy & positive lives, increased attendance & attainment. Outdoor learning boosts confidence, social skills, communication, motivation, physical skills, knowledge & understanding. […]

As you can see the RSS widget expects a title. And any links in your post are not clickable.

You can also see a classic RSS widget in the right sidebar on this page.

Screenshot of RSS widget

Social Icon

If you use the Social Icon block you can add Bluesky as one of the social icons it can contain. Like this:

We have more information and links about the Social Block on our Blocks site.

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