Features of iSchool Blogs
iSchool Blogs has the following features:
WordPress MU engine
iSchool Blogs is built on WordPress technology and that means you get a heck of a lot more than just a blog. As well as being able to post, your users can also create as many static pages as they like, turn on and off comments on every individual item and create powerful multi-tiered and complex websites… without ever needing to know any html.
Easy to set up using our iSchool Blogs Admin!
You can get a blog started easily by using our iSchool Blog Admin module. All you need is a SMJK Google Apps account, for your School admin to select and create the appropriate Blogs group and you are all set to go. You can blog as much as you want,
Selectable Themes
Dozens of delightful themes showcasing the very best in design. They’re slick, fully accessible, entirely standards based and we’re adding to them all the time.
Some themes allow a great deal of customization, such as changing the header images, or rearranging the sidebar, using the Sidebar Widget system, insert your own header graphics into your themes. Get ready to run the best looking blogs on the planet.
Sidebar Widget Systems
Widgets allow you to customize your sidebar with cool stuff by just dragging and dropping – you don’t need to know any HTML code.
In your dashboard under “Presentation” there is a submenu called sidebar widgets.You can add widgets by dragging the boxes from the bottom onto your sidebar.
Most widgets have configuration options, so by clicking the little icon on the right of the widget box above, you can do things like change the title or customize the content of the widget.
Spell-check, Previews, Autosave, Words, Photos, Podcasts, Videos etc.
We’ve got rich features! All posts are automatically spell-checked, auto-saved (so you never lose that post you’ve been working on for hours) come with a complete feature rich editor (with optional plain text view), allow for simple uploading of images and other files, are podcast ready and have automatic YouTube, Google Video and more video nsertion devices… and that’s just a selection.
Spam Protection
Comment spam is a very real issue in the blog world and we’re fighting hard to protect you from it. iSchool Blogs comes installed with the most powerful spam fighting tools on the web which will block out the bots, sign out the spammers and keep your blogs spam clean. And if that’s not enough, all users also have full control over comments and trackbacks with numerous possible moderation settings – so a nasty comment need never see the light of day!
WordPress uses Akismet, the world’s best comment and trackback spam technology. It blocks spammers from leaving spam comments on your blog. Akismet also helps us shut down spam blogs that try to sneak onto WordPress. If a spam comment or blog slips through, you can report them and help get them blocked from the system.
Categorize and Tag Your Posts
WordPress provides an easy system which allows you to categorize and tag your posts while you write them. It automatically create archives based on your categories, so you get extra traffic as other people interested in the same topics as you will find your post and leave comments on your blog.
Manage Regular Pages, not Just Blog Posts
WordPress has a feature called “pages” which allows you to easily create web pages. For example, you could add an “about me” page with your biography, and a link to that page would be automatically added to your sidebar. You can even create an entire web site using pages on WordPress, with a custom home page and your blog as one of the sub-pages.