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It’s now real simple to add a Google Map to your blog! The Google Maps plugin allows you to easily embed, customize, and use Google maps on your Edublogs blog.  You can also display local images and let your site visitors get directions in seconds. To start using first go to the Plugins menu and [...]

Formidable Forms is a powerful plugin which allows you to easily create forms of all shapes and sizes – and so much more. After activating the plugin, you will find a new menu like this one in your blog’s dashboard. Creating a new form First, go to Formidable > Create a Form Choose between starting [...]

First up, activate the ‘RSS Just Better’ plugin After that, either create a new post or page, or edit an old one – just make sure that you click on the HTML tab (this won’t work in the ‘Visual’ WYSIWYG editor.) Enter [RSSjb feed="..."] where “…” is any website feed you wish to display. That’s [...]

Google Analytics is used by bloggers because it provide detailed statistics of visits to your blog such as who’s coming to your blog site, how they’re getting there and what interests them. Setting Up Your Google Analytics Account 1.  Create an gmail account. Gmail is Google’s free webmail that you can access from any computer, [...]

Akismet is a spam commenting service designed to reduce comment and pingback spam. It checks the content of the comment anonymously with an online server, to determine whether it is spam or not. All comments considered spam automatically placed by Akismet in a spam queue where it is held for a month and then deleted. [...]

Plugins extend and expand the functionality of your blog. To activate a plugin go to Plugins in your dashboard and click on Activate below the desired plugin (refer to these detailed step-by-step instructions). Below’s an overview of the Edublogs Plugins 3D Rotating Tag Cloud The 3D Rotating Tag Cloud Plugin creates a beautiful rotating and [...]

Plugins extend and expand the functionality of your blog. Edublogs is powered by a customised version of WordPress multisite. While there are over 4,000 plugins that you can use on single installs of self hosted WordPress most of these won’t work on WordPress Multisite. All plugins installed on Edublogs have been throughly tested and customized [...]