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Advice – Changing Privacy Levels
There can be a problem with changing privacy levels on a site with a lot of media (photos, video, audio etc.). We are planning a change to Glow Blogs to prevent this. In the meantime we have some advice around changing site privacy. The problem only affects sites with a lot of media. When you…
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H5P Interactive Video Problems with YouTube Videos
There are two problem with some H5P interactive videos. Both are the result of changes in YouTube behaviour. This post provides a fix to one and a workaround to the other.
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Bulk Editing Posts and Pages
Sometimes in Glow you want to edit some aspects multiple posts or pages. There are some tools in the Dashboard to help you. This might be useful when you want to delete many posts, add tags or categories and more. Posts You can bulk edit a selection of posts on the Posts Screen of the…
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Editor & Theme Choices
When you create a new Glow Blog you choose the editor you would like to be set as default. This also set the theme. Both can be easily changed at any time.
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Hi John,
We have recently set up blogs for each class in the school. Whilst trying to upload media within a post they have been receiving this error:
Error file is empty. Please upload something more substantial.
This error appears when they are using their iPad minis and trying to upload media from their camera roll.
Any idea why this message is appearing?
Thanks
Hi Craig,
No I don’t know what is going on there. I’ve not had any problem uploading from iOS, and just tested via my iPhone. Can you let me know what version of the operating system you are using so we can try and duplicate the problem.
Hi John,
It was iOS version 8.0 (12A365) . I have just updated it to the latest version, iOS version 8.4.1 and it seems to have solved the problem.
Thanks
Hi Craig,
Brilliant, thanks for letting me know.
Hey,
Great site! has been very useful.
I am struggling to embed Twitter/Facebook streams using jetpack… Have followed all the instructions on WordPress support pages (created widget ID/ attempted HTML and Shirtcode plugin). Best result is a link to social media… No embedded stream.
Can it be done?
Thanks,
Raymond
Hi Raymond,
We have working example and more info on our Jetpack blog:
twitter | Jetpack
and
Facebook Like | Jetpack
Hi John
A pupil has created a ppt in online 365 and would like to put it into the school blog so it appears as a ppt and not a link. We tried using the embed code but this didn’t work. Is there a way to do it please?
Caroline
Hi Caroline,
Not at the moment.
1. An O365 files cannot be shared publicly. It would not display on a blog even if you could embed it.
2. The embed code for powerpoint seems to be an iFrame. Allowing iframes to embed is seen as a security risk by our blogs developers. It is usually disabled on large muli-sites such as ours. WordPress ‘prefers’ oEmbed (like the way youtube works).
For this to work we would need, open sharing to be allowed from Glow O365 and to embed iFrames without allowing iFrames (we did something similar for ClickView video in the last release).
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp/portfolio/iframes/