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Blog Privacy Settings
This controls the privacy options on all blogs.
Default is Allow all visitors to all blogs and Allow blog administrators to modify privacy settings for their blog
NOTE:
When you make changes to blog privacy settings you have the option to apply these changes to all blogs on the site or only to new blogs being created.
- Select ‘Update All Blogs’ to update blogs existing blogs created and apply to all new blogs being created.
- Don’t select ‘Update All Blogs’ if you only want these new changes to apply to all new blogs being created
Updating all blogs can take time depending on number of blogs hosted.
Admin Panel Footer Setting
Footer text can be used to place a message at the bottom of the admin panel of every blog. For example, Edublogs uses this to brand the bottom of their blog dashboards.
Help Content
The help content can be used to place helpful information and links which appears in the dropdown help box that your users can click at the top of the screen.
Here is the text that was used to create this help content:
Blog and User Creator
The Blog and User Creator is designed to easily create blogs in batches of 15. This option determines if the Blog & User Creator Tab is added to the menu under Users in the dashboards of blog administrators. The default setting is Yes i.e. all administrators have access to this tool.
In most situations you would have this set to Yes unless you really don’t want users to create blogs or are using LDAP integration.
Signup Text Form
This is the text that appears on the signup page of your Campus site (e.g. http://edutags.net/wp-signup.php) as a reminder to users when they create their accounts.
Here is what it looks like on your Signup page:
Theme Settings
Theme settings give you the ability to change this default theme for all new blogs created in your community to your preferred theme.
For example, Edublogs default theme was created by customizing Cutline by Chris Pearson and original header by Thomas Hawk. Here’s what a new blog on Edublogs looks like:
Footer Content
The Footer Content options means you can simply add (almost) anything you like to the footer of every page on every blog on your site.
For example, you could use it to add:
1. Your contact details to their blog footer so they know how to easy get assistance
2. To provide a link to resources that help them with their blog
See how easy it was to add the following HTML:
To create a simple button in the blog footer that links to the main blog site:
Google Analytics Settings
This allows you to insert Google Analytics tracking code for your site while also allowing your users to track their own blog’s performance (Settings > Google Analytics).
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