In a nutshell, Pingbacks and Trackbacks were designed to provide a method of comment notification between WordPress websites. Unfortunately, on heavily active sites, such as realsmart cloud sites, the notification emails can become a bit of a pain! Don’t worry, switching them off is easy.

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Google forms are a great way of collecting data from all of your stakeholders and are really easy to set up! In this guide we’ll go through the basics of creating a form in Google Docs and embedding it into a WordPress post.

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When you create a post on your cloud site, WordPress automatically creates a relevant URL for the post. If you decide to go back and change the post title at a later date WordPress will not automatically update the URL to match the new post! Don’t worry, it’s actually an very simple fix!

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We understand it’s important to keep your school’s branding consistent and frequent. We’ve wrote a short step-by-step guide to help you add your school’s logo to realsmart and google apps.

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Changing the colour of your cloud website’s menu bar couldn’t be easier. Here we provide a short snippet of code to help you customise your own school’s menu bar.

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If you are one of the schools taking part in the Modern Baccalaureate scheme you will have access to the ModBac qualification calculator through realsmart!

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Importing users into realsmart couldn’t be easier! Simply follow this simple guide to get all your users online in Realsmart within minutes.

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If you want to add a front page message rather than a list of new posts, here’s a quick way of achieving that.

What we’re going to do is:

1. Add a new post
2. Make it sticky post on the front page.
3. Remove the ‘post’ styling.

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Adding your google presentations into your realsmart items is a very quick and easy process. We will be using the embedding technique that has already been discussed in THIS GUIDE.

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The ‘Webcell’ editor doesn’t just allow us to post plain text and images. Through HTML code we can create almost anything. This guide will take you through the HTML process step-by-step and give you a few practical examples of what you can achieve.

Using the ‘Webcell’ editor

Just in case any of you were wondering, this is what we call the ‘Webcell’ editor.

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