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Stampin Corner Help - Using The Standard Widgets — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:32:15 +0000

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By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:52:51 +0000

Hi Jim – Coding for WordPressMu is quite specialised so probably worth you asking in the WordPress forum if it is even possible.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:08:36 +0000

Hi Sue,
Many thanks for the reply.
I’m using WordPressMU which is self hosted.
Currently I am using meta refresh to force IE to refresh after a period of time.
This is not ideal as this will have to be altered to allow for new posts being added or old posts being removed.
I wondered if you knew of a way, some clever script somewhere, that would refresh IE after a post had been added or removed.
Thanks again.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:28:03 +0000

Hi Jim, I’m not sure if it can be done. It may also depend on if you are using self hosted WordPress, WordPress MU or your blogs are hosted by someone.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:51:12 +0000

Hi,
I apologise for adding this here but I wondered if you could help?
I’ve been experimenting with a messaging system for our school and thought WordPress would be a great way to do it.
I have created a test messaging system http://www.greshams.biz/blog/test which is configured to use a 1024 X 768 widescreen display.
I think I’m pretty much there, but I would like some help with refreshing IE after a new post has been entered into WordPress.
I’m unsure if it can be done?
I wonder if it is possible for WordPress to somehow, tell IE to refresh after a post has been entered? This would then allow our receptionist to add posts without having to F5 the comp used for the display.
Many thanks

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:17:31 +0000

Ahh… many thanks for this.
I will delve into the Wordpress MU site and see what I can find.

Thanks again

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:20:15 +0000

Glad my tutorial has been helpful. I’m sure yours was good – some people prefer video tutorials others prefer step by step. So it is helpful to have a mixture of both.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:19:01 +0000

Hi Jim – My understanding is that WordPress MU has it set up so that it blocks most embed code. It is designed as a security feature to prevent any code that might cause problems.

To enable the code to be embedded you need to know how to change the coding of your WordPress MU. So with Edublogs that is what they have done. That is why you often see the differences in ability to embed between Edublogs and WordPress.com.

By: treagan

treagan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:41:11 +0000

EXCELLENT! My staff have been asking for tips on this, and I created a voicethread to help them, but this is MUCH better than my lame tutorial. Thank you, Sue!

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:21:02 +0000

Hi,
Using WordPressMU 2.6.5 and Inove/Disciple themes.

I’ve added a google calendar into a sidebar as per your instructions but the text widget does not seem to hold on to the statement.
Every time I try and paste the code into the text widget then click ‘Save Changes’ it disappears.
I have used the trick you mentioned above but this will not work either.

I have successfully installed the WPNG plugin and I am displaying a google calendar in my test blog http://greshams.biz/blog/ but this will only allow one google calendar to be added to the WPNG widget.

Several staff create their own calendar for their activities/sports and I then merge them using the standard method as you have described in this post.
I then use this code onto our non blog website which works a treat, http://www.greshams.com/senior/calendar.php.

Do you know why the statement does not seem to work?

Sorry to add so many links to our school.