{"id":1133,"date":"2015-06-25T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/?page_id=1133"},"modified":"2023-10-02T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T19:00:25","slug":"school-websites-useful-features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/10-ways\/1-school-website\/school-websites-useful-features\/","title":{"rendered":"School Websites: Useful Features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As well as menus, posts and pages there are many other useful features you can add to your school website on Glow Blogs. This is just a short list of some of them. The links will take you to extra help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><s><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/jetpack\/category\/extra-sidebar-widgets\/twitter\/\">Twitter Widget&nbsp;<\/a>add a twitter feed to your blogs sidebar with Jetpack<\/s>. Twitter have disable this feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/jetpack\/category\/extra-sidebar-widgets\/facebook-like\/\">Facebook Like<\/a> Display a Facebook Like Box to connect visitors to your Facebook Page (Jetpack).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing via Jetpack, you can add buttons to share posts via many services using the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/jetpack\/sharing\/\">JetPack Sharing module<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong>, you can add links to the site and display them in a widget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image Widgets<\/strong>, images in your sidebar, that can be links (Jetpack).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/jetpack\/category\/contact-form\/\">Contact Forms<\/a> you can add contact and other forms to your posts and pages with this Jetpack feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Features Image, for example&nbsp;here is a site that uses sticky posts with featured images to provide a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/2014featuredposts1\/\">grid on the home page<\/a>&nbsp;and one that shows them <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/2014featuredposts2\/\">on a slider<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Display Posts Shortcode<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/settings\/plugins-3-2\/display-posts-shortcode\/\">Display Posts Shortcode<\/a> plugin can automatically list posts and pages organised in a variety of ways. An example can be seen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/how-to\/\">How To<\/a> page here where links to child pages are automatically displayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This can be useful for example to list all a departments sub-pages on one page for automatically creating navigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Syndication<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Syndication, you can bring content into your School Website from other blogs in a couple of ways. This might be useful if you have class or department blogs set up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use the RSS widget, this can bring a list of posts from another blog onto a widget area on your blog. This does&nbsp;not need to be all of the content, you could bring in content from a particular category on the other blog or a list of posts with a certain tag. For example if your Physics department has its own blog you could add a widget to your school website that would bring in a list of posts from that blog with the tag <em>department news<\/em>. Optionally you can control &nbsp;which pages the widget appears on using the&nbsp;Widget Visibility jetpack feature (e.g. on the Sciences page on the site).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/settings\/settings-plugins\/syndication-plugin\/\">Syndication plugin<\/a> can bring in posts from other blogs and mix them in with your posts. &nbsp;For example, you could bring in posts tagged&nbsp;<em>department news<\/em> from the English department&#8217;s blog and mix them in with the School news page. You would do this by syndicating the RSS feed for that tag and adding the &#8216;School News&#8217; category with &nbsp;the syndication plugin settings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as menus, posts and pages there are many other useful features you can add to your school website on Glow Blogs. This is just a short list of some of them. The links will take you to extra help. Twitter Widget&nbsp;add a twitter feed to your blogs sidebar with Jetpack. Twitter have disable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/10-ways\/1-school-website\/school-websites-useful-features\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School Websites: Useful Features<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":119,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1133\/revisions\/4306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}