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You bet! Thanks.

Ahh, no worries. I am able to generate a feed and that is all I need. ??

Well, now I have my posts populated in the dashboard, but the blog page that aggregates them all gets this error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/hmnjsd/hmsites.org/wp-content/themes/alyeska/framework/frontend/functions/general.php on line 801
Looks like a theme issue.

sorry to post so much, just trouble shooting. ??

I also get a “too many redirects” error. ??

Yes, I am using dreamhost. And they just said that they would only help with the installation of wordpress, but not third party things like ecto. But clearly something has changed recently. I will go check that out!

Awesome! Thanks. Your links were wonderful~! You just answered a ton of other questions, too.

great, thanks a lot!!!

checkmate, I would love to see your site! I am very interested in educational uses of wordpress. I have a kindergarten adapatation of blogging, and would love to see how this is set up for a school.

I am looking forward to stretching out in this theme! Thanks for the info on censorship. Right now I am looking to learn all that I can. I am looking for a better way to stream or share video in the most usable format. If you have any ideas of plugins, let me know.

Right now our district wants to host all teacher sites and allows only 4mb of disk space. Not enough for multimedia content. I also need control of the files and php and mysql services. All of this is not allowed in my district. Teachers are supposed to print off every page of a web site if a change is made, then submit them and the digital files to the media specialist, then to the principal, then to a tech committee and then the the main administrator for even the slightest change. This system simply doesn’t work. Most of these people don’t know a jpeg from a png, why would I trust them with the complications of web site files and directories? I don’t.

Many of my parents are aware that I am breaking district policy because they have asked for a school web site (which I am not qualified to do) and know the policies. There is a group of my parents making us tee-shirts that say “I make illegal educational web sites” with my web address on the back. Kind of funny, but I told them to hold off unless I get banned. They are ready to go to the paper and school board if this happens. Ugggg, the drama!

But it is a good thing and I am going to continue and see if some of those old policies can be looked at again. Thanks for your kind words, helps me know that I am on the right track and this is all worth something. I value the opinions of you all on the board here.

Thanks for the compliments. Bringing parents into my classroom is exactly the point of using the web as a tool like this. I absolutely love the capabilities with software and plugins like these. Right now blogging is illegal in my school district and I am about to get slammed for it, or even blocked by my school’network. The next few weeks will be very interesting for me. We will see what the future will bring for my site!

Thanks for the replies. I’ll have to take some time to consider the trackbacks. Thanks for the info. I am using a Mac, so I wonder if FF on the Mac may be different than on the PC. Hmmmm . . . . I bet this is a theme issue, though. I’ll have to look into that, too. My parents have been having no problems (that they have shared with me). Mostly using IE6 and FF. I’ll dig into that, though.

Thanks for the info. My parents really are into checking out what their kids are doing – I like to be alone in the room with them, so it is a good trade off. Hopefully my school will let me make a page for them. I think that would be great.

In some browsers the nav buttons do not have labels, but in safari/camino/firefox they do. I know in Mozilla they do not show up. To be honest with you I am not sure what a trackback or pingback is, but what wordpress allows me to do is to send the posts right to their email boxes if they subscribe (and they do). It also allows me to make quick and easy posts through a browser – this is crucial in my work day! I am rather new to wordpress, only been using it for a few months – but its basic set up allows me to accomplish certian things very, very easily. More easily than Dreamweaver or Rapidweaver.

Thanks for your kind words about my site. I have a masters in the use of technology in education and have made it my career goal to influence teachers and parents to catch up to the rest of the world. I hold tech nights for the parents of my students to teache them how to view and download content – also, how to have clean hygene on the internet! We have a great relationship and these tools help to foster that.

I would love to know more about what a pingback or trackback is and what browser you were using where you could not see the labels on the nav buttons. Thanks so much for your comments. Again, I’m new to wordpress and blogging software, but know that this is the best tool to use as a teacher in the classroom.