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Updating post/page URLs in WordPress

January 4, 2012 in Front Page News, How do I...?, WordPress by A Stringfellow

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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Adding your school’s logo to Realsmart & Google Apps

January 4, 2012 in Front Page News, Google Apps, How do I...?, Support by A Stringfellow

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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#CSS { Change the colour of your cloud site menu }

December 19, 2011 in CSS Snippets, How do I...? by R Hadfield

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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Using the Modern Baccalaureate calculator

December 13, 2011 in Front Page News, How do I...? by A Stringfellow

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

December 12, 2011 in How do I...?, Support, Technical stuff by A Stringfellow

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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#CSS { Styling a front page message }

November 25, 2011 in CSS Snippets, How do I...? by R Hadfield

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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Embedding Google Doc Presentations

November 23, 2011 in Google Apps, How do I...?, rafl, rcast, rmap, rpassport, rweb by A Stringfellow

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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Create advanced webpage content with the ‘Webcell’ editor

November 23, 2011 in Front Page News, How do I...?, rafl, rcast, rmap, rpassport, rweb, Technical stuff by A Stringfellow

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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Using HTML elements in your sidebar

November 21, 2011 in Front Page News, How do I...?, WordPress by A Stringfellow

Using HTML in your sidebar gives you the opportunity to create a more personalised and dynamic cloud site. You can add anything to your sidebar from images through to flash content. The process is very quick and very simple but it does help if you have a little knowledge of HTML.

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Adding Cloud apps to your website sidebar.

November 21, 2011 in Front Page News, How do I...?, Web Apps We Like, WordPress by A Stringfellow

It is a great idea to display a range of cloud apps on your sidebar. This helps to keep students and teachers using the same apps as each other and will therefore create a better support network for the apps.

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