The help blog suggests a couple of third party services that allow you to provide your blog updated by email. One of these services, Feedburner will no longer provide that service after July 2021 : Feedburner will stop providing e-mail subscriptions in July 2021
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We have just added the DearFlip dFlip plugin to Glow blogs. This plugin let you display a pdf or a set of images as a flip book.
More information on the dFlip plugin page.
Glow Blogs has a small update yesterday at 4pm
Mega Menus Max Mega Menu – WordPress Mega Menu Plugin
This is a really powerful menu plugin, it will give more responsive and accessible menus. It also fixes the problem with the Yoko theme’s menus on mobile.
This plug-in helps with a variety of common accessibility problems in WordPress themes. While most accessibility issues can’t be addressed without directly changing your theme, WP Accessibility adds a number of helpful accessibility features with a minimum amount of setup or expert knowledge.
Twenty Nineteen, Twenty Twenty and Twenty Twenty One.
These Themes are particularly designed for the New Gutenberg Editor. They will come into their own when we have tested and implemented the new editor. The themes will function well using the current editor.
Various Themes have been updated to the latest version.
The ability to embed content from more external services including FlipGrid, Padlet, Thinglink, Waklet, Micro:bit & Prezi. We now have a blog showing how various embeds work: Embeds – Examples of embedding content from other sites on Glow Blogs
There has been a problem with dropdown menus in blogs using the Yoko theme on mobile devices. It the past this could be dealt with by using the Jetpack mobile module. This has now no longer available. There was also a rather complicated workaround using widgets and custom CSS.
As of 27 Jan 2021 there is an easy fix, using the Max Mega Menu plugin.
The plugin is quite powerful and has a lot of setting, but using it to fix the Yoko probelm is very simple:
Activate the plugin in Dashboard->Plugins, click Activate under the Plugin name.
Go to the menu section of the dashboard: Appearance->Menus
Load the menu used for Primary Navigation and tick the enable box in the Max Mega Menus’s Setting
A few quick tips that might help at the start of this new session.
Forgotten username or password
Your RM Unify Admin, who may be in your establishment or Local Authority will be able to help.
An Admin of the blog should be able to add you. Adding Users, Setting Roles | Glow Blog Help
You need to get your Local Authority to raise a call with theRM help desk.
Make sure you include the usernames you want added to a blog and the URL of the blog.
You need to get your Local Authority to raise a call with theRM help desk.
Make sure you include your username and the URL of the blog.
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Glow Blogs had an update today. There are several changes mostly with the Jetpack plugin. This has been updated and brings a few new useful features.
There is a new module Copy Post, this adds the ability to start a new post based on existing posts. This adds a link to the posts and page lists. It need to be activated in the Jetpack settings.
The contact form is now edited directly in the post or page editor.
Lazy Images makes pages load much faster by only loading visible images, waiting to load images that are offscreen as you scroll down.
Sitemaps are files that list each post and page that should be indexed by search engines like Google or Bing. Jetpack allows you to generate such files thanks to the Sitemaps feature. Once activated you can find the sitemap.xml file on your blog at: yourblogurl/sitemap.xml
So for the help site this would be
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/sitemap.xml
If you have the sitemap activated you can submit it to google to help with indexing your site and produce a sitemap on your site by using the [sitemap] shortcode.
Tiled Galleries this add several different galley options to Galleries. This includes tiled mosaic, a square grid, and a circular grid.
We will be adding more help on some of these features soon.
Given the current school closures in Scotland schools and teachers are looking for ways to continue to deliver education.
You can use Glow to deliver education during an unexpected event. There are many different Glow applications and services. Here are some of the features of Glow Blogs that may be useful.
What sort of information can you provide to visitors
All this information can be organised to make it easily accessible to pupils and visitors visitors.
The help blog should help you if you need to find out how to do something. Use the menus or search to find content. We have FAQ and Tips pages too.
You can get more help via the support, or leave a comment on the appropriate page.
During the times of School Closure many schools are using Glow.
Blogs are particularly suited publishing news and information in a timely fashion and one of the easiest ways to post public information that does not need a log on to. The recent infrastructure changes make Glow Blogs a more robust platform too.
If you need help with Glow Blogs, here is how to get it:
If you need to know how to do something the Help Blog is a good place to start use the search box from any page of look at the Site Map.
There is a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and answers)
Three of the most common are:
If you can’t find what you want you can get in touch using the contact form. Or leave a comment on any of the pages. If you do not get an answer to these please email gw09johnstonjohn4@glowmail.org.uk
If the problem looks like a bug or a problem with an account you need to log it with the RM help desk via you LA.
If the question does not relate to Blogs you are better looking at:
General Glow Help Information
If your question is about Accounts and password
Accounts and passwords
The themes made unavailable in December will be retired completely on the 30th of January along with themes that were removed from the theme picker in 2015.
Removal of old and unmaintained themes will allow us to update Glow Blogs and keep blogs secure.
If your blog uses on of the old themes, it will be automatically switched to the Twenty Fourteen theme on the 30th of January 2020. As this may result is a few changes to your blog appearance, menus and widgets we suggest that you change your theme before then.
We have general information on themes and advice on testing and changing themes here on the help blog. Please get in touch if you need more advice.
You can find out more about the process on Glow Connect:
Themes being retired include: classic, default, digg3, dundee, fjords, K21.0.3, oxygen, p2, regulus, suburbia, suffusion, visual and wp-andreas01.
As we work on improving and upgrading Glow Blogs some of the themes currently in use are not compatible with newer versions of WordPress. These are going to be retired, first made unavailable in the theme picker from Tuesday 17th December and next year removed from Glow Blogs altogether. Glow Key Contacts will be receiving advice.
More information is available on Glow Connect
If you are using one of the listed themes you start thinking of changing to another one. We have information on changing themes here. Please leave a comment or get in touch if you need more information on changing themes or need advice on how to support a particular feature.
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