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Looking for News

Try the following suggestions to increase your daily intake of news feeds.
  • Surf the latest headlines from all over the world. Results are based on google search rankings, the larger the font --> the more hits in google, I recall.
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In the News(CTS bloggers)

CBC RSS feeds. Browse the many RSS feed categories. Select at least one to be added to your blog's sidebar.
  • Copy(right-click or control-click) a feed url from CBC RSS feeds.
  • Go to Dashboard-->Presentation-->Sidebar Widgets-->Add RSS widgets.
  • Drag RSS widget to your sidebar.
  • Paste the url into the RSS widget.
  • Save and view site.
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Creat a Sitemap for your blog

Write a page(not a post). Title it Sitemap. You'll find the code here that you'll need to paste into your page. Enter Sitemap as the Page Slug. Disable Comments and Pings. Publish. Go to Dashboard-->Options-->DDSitemapGen. Enter the same Slug, update. Add the link to the sitemap via your theme's menu or sidebar or add a Pages widget.
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CTS InfoPro Module Outlines

New features Gallery2 and Subscribe2

Gallery2 integration works, mostly. Well the sidebar and full page embedding works, more to come. Activate WPG2 by pointing it to http://stjschool.org/gallery2/ and it should autodetect the rest. Then place the STJ Galley widget in your sidebar. Subscribe2 allows you to email, automagically, site updates(a new post for example) to your subscribers. A new Subscribe link appears in your footer.
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Audio Posts (But not quite podcasts, yet)

Or rather, Audio in Posts. They're not iTunesey podcasts, yet, but they're simple enough. Your mp3 file must be less than 2MB and uploaded to your blog in the normal way. Go find the menu in Dashboard-->Options-->Audio Player. Read the check boxes, the third check box will automagically change your mp3 links in your posts to embedded flash players. Easy-peezy. Look at wmcauley's mp3 links.
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iBox for your images

Click the images. Before iBox image_1b.jpg After iBox image_1b.jpg Want to know how? Start a thread in the forum, "How to iBox?". When three STJ bloggers post, let me know and I'll join in with the secret.
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Here's an idea that could snowball!

Find a "copyright-free" etext online at, say, Project Gutenberg or here or here Start a new blog. Parse your etext into manageable chunks and insert into your blog. Add graphics and organizers. Edit theme.
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cool smilies

:cool: The following smilies have an extra space after the first character so you can see them here in text form.
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