Because Wordpress is Open Source, and because there is a vast community of developers tweaking it for their own particular requirements, a vast library of plugins are available for you to install on your blog. A plugin is a small piece of code tha...

Please use this forum page to provide feedback for any plugin that you have installed and tested, either to give it the thumbs up for the community, or the thumbs down. When discussing a plugin, please describe its intended functionality, it's nam...

Teachmeet Last Friday saw the first Teachmeet to be held in the Northwest. If you don’t know what a Teachmeet is, watch this Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlSQYSnPUQY It’s a shame more couldn’t make it, but it was great to see Pete...

I have been using a search engine called Boolify recently. Boolify is actually a Google Custom Search (see this post for more about this), but it is really useful for teaching children how a search engine works by introducing the concept of Boolea...

As a preface to a piece on setting up your school blogsite for the new year I'm putting up some instructions on transferring posts and comments from one blog to another. The instructions here are for Wordpress, however, since practically every blo...