In your school website you can assign users with permissions to only post within certain categories, for example your PE teachers the “Sport Blogs” or students to the “Student Council Blog”

This screencast explains how to activate the plugin and enable permissions for users and user types.

WordPress uses a concept of Roles, designed to give the blog owner the ability to control and assign what users can and cannot do in the blog. A blog owner can manage and allow access to such functions as writing and editing posts, creating pages, defining links,creating categories, moderating comments, managing plugins, and managing other users.

There are five main user roles within WordPress:
Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber.

When users are created in the realsmartcloud, default roles are automatically assigned:

• realsmart admin → WordPress Administrator
• realsmart mentor → WordPress Contributor
• realsmart learner → WordPress Subscriber

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It’s really easy to now schedule a start and end time for any posts on your WordPress site.

We think this is really useful for the staff and student noticeboards. Scheduling automates the process of setting up temporary posts such as notices of Assemblies and Canteen closures etc. 

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Occasionally spam robots will target your site with comments offering you search engine optimisation, free stuff etc. Whilst most of this is harmless unless you follow the links it can become a bit tedious.

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RSS feeds are a great way to keep people updated on the latest changes to your website. Not only are they a method of advertising your own site, they can also be used to grab useful information from other websites.

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Sometimes you’ll want to assign a custom image to post instead of the author’s avatar. This is easy to do and can help identify individual posts much more efficiently.

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Sometimes you’ll want to create menu items that open in a new tab as you would with sidebar links. While this is slightly more complex than doing it for a standard sidebar link, it is still easy enough to do.

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Your realsmart items can be shared in more ways than just the one.

You can actually embed them as you would with any other web content. Items be put inside WordPress posts, emails, or even inside of other realsmart items. This is particularly useful if you want to use an item as evidence within another realsmart item.

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Sometimes you’ll want to create a post that sticks right at the top of the page. This can be useful to display urgent reminders, important events, or even just answers to common questions. It’s very easy to do.

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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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