CWS has added the Simple Calendar plugin to blogs.oregonstate.edu.

This plugin allows for connecting Google Calendars to your blogs.

As a site administrator, you can turn the plugin from the Plugins menu. When activated, a new menu item appears on the left called ‘Calendars’

Here, you create templates which are then added to widgets or posts.

For example to display the event title and if present a location and description.


<div class="gce-list-event gce-tooltip-event">[event-title]</div>
[if-location]<div><span>Location:</span> [location]</div>[/if-location]
[if-description]<div><span>Description:</span> [description]</div>[/if-description]
<div class="gce-list-event gce-tooltip-event"></div>


Plugin documentation can be found at http://docs.simplecalendar.io/

We have added the WP Latex plugin to blogs!

LaTex is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.

To setup using LaTex and to review how to use it, go to your blogs dashboard.

There under Settings, you will see ‘WP LaTex’. Click it.

Select ‘wordpress.com’ as the LaTex server.

For text and background colors, you fill in Default text color and Default background color with 000000 and ffffff for black text on white background. Use ffffff and 000000 for white text on black background.

Click ‘Update LaTex options’ to start using LaTex!

Recent changes to the Jetpack plugin for WordPress have left accounts disconnected.

To remedy this, perform the following steps:
1. Login to your blogs account as an admin.
2. Go to the Installed Plugins item on the Administration menu (under Plugins)
3. Locate the Jetpack plugin
4. Click ‘Activate’
5. You should see Jetpack appear in the Administration menu on the left hand side.
6. Click on Jetpack in the Administration menu.
7. Click ‘Connect to WordPress.com’.
8. Enter your account and password.
9. Jetpack should now be setup and working.

Blogs have been updated to WordPress 4.1.

New features:

• Twentyfifteen theme
• Distraction-free writing mode
• Vine embeds

New Plugins:

• Disqus comment system – Use the disqus.com system for comments
• Printfriendly – Creates a printer friendly version of your blog contents as well as creating a PDF of the page.

The update of the WordPress-SEO plugins has resulted in extra content being added to a blog site’s RSS feeds.

The extra content is “The post xxx originally appeared in yyy”.

To remove this content, you will need to log onto your blog site and from the wp-admin page, go to SEO -> RSS.

Remove the text in the ‘Content to put after each post’ edit section.

Save the ‘Save Changes’ and you should be good to go.

With the installation of the prezi-embedded plugin, using prezi in blogs posts and pages has been simplified.

To enbed a Prezi in our blog posts, we need to do the following (from the plugin installation notes):

Place [prezi id="<Prezi ID>"] in any post or page were you want to embed a Prezi.

To find your Prezi ID, the easiest solution is to simply copy the URL of your Prezi, which should look something
like this: http://prezi.com/<Prezi ID>/<Prezi Slug>. If you paste that URL exactly as it is, the plugin is
now smart enough to extract the ID for you. Alternatively, if you would like to do it the hard way, you can
manually extract the <Prezi ID> from that same URL.

Prezi Embedder Options

In addition to a simple embed, you can also set some additional embed options:

1. align (default = none): Aligns the Prezi left, right, or center in your post.
2. width (default = 500): Width of viewer in pixels.
3. height (default = 400): Height of viewer in pixels.
4. lock_to_path (default = 0): Whether to constrain user navigation to Prezi path (1), or let them roam free (0).
5. autoplay (default = 0): Enables option at bottom of Prezi display to start autoplay.
6. html5 (default = 1): True (1) to use new HTML5 viewer, false (0) to use Flash-based viewer.

The following shortcode is equivalent to [prezi id="<Prezi ID>"], with default values explicitly set:

[prezi id="<Prezi ID>" width=500 height=400 lock_to_path=0 html5=1]