Monthly Archives: October 2011

New Plugin: Jetpack

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We’ve just installed Jetpack on blogs.middlebury.edu.  This plugin replaces the WordPress.com stats plugin that many use to keep track of how many people are viewing their sites.

If you own or are an administrator on a site that used the WordPress.com stats plugin, we encourage you to update to JetPack.  For more information, see:
Plugins > Jetpack

Update: We have had reports that updating from WordPress.com Stats plugin to Jetpack may prevent access to historical site statistics.  If such statistics are important to you, we recommend not updating to Jetpack until these issues are resolved.

JetPack also has a number of other features including a Twitter widget, support for LaTex markup and a spelling, grammar and style checker.  For more information, see:
http://jetpack.me/ 

WordPress Workshops

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We have scheduled a WordPress Introductory Workshop at following date/time:

  • 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Fri, Oct. 14 Library 105

This workshop is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about WordPress for blogging, courses, projects, initiative…etc.  If you are interested in attending this workshop, see:
WordPress Workshop Sign Up

We have also scheduled a number of work sessions on WordPress, as well as Moodle. These work sessions are designed to provide hands on assistance to anyone who is working on a site or has specific questions.  Here are dates/times:

  • 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Tues October 18, Library 105
  • 4:15 – 5:15 pm, Thurs October 20, Library 105
  • 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Weds October 26, Library 105
  • 2:00 – 3:00 pm, Thurs October 27, Library 105

If you are interested in attending one or more of these sessions, see:
WordPress/Moodle Work Session Sign Up