Hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend and/or holiday! Just a few quick things this week…
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Featured Tip: Handing off Your Site to a New Administrator
In the category of Not So Frequently Asked Questions, we have had a few questions lately about what to do when you want to hand a site over to a new administrator. The short answer is to go into MEMBERSHIP in the right hand menu and change the person who wishes to no longer be Administrator to MEMBER and to promote the person who yearns to administer to ADMIN. Then each person changes their email settings (to ‘All’ or ‘None’ as you like), and everything is grand.
But, if you were the creator of the site, you might find you’re still getting emails. Why is that? you might wonder. Well, when you created the site you entered an email address that won’t change until you follow these instructions:
1. First, go to the DASHBOARD of your site, then click SETTINGS>GENERAL
2. Once there you’ll see an email address. Change it, save the changes, and you’re done!
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Featured Blog Post: WordPress in education, meet the free software community. And vice versa.
This post isn’t on the OpenLab, but it was written by our own Boone Gorges, who has been invaluable to our own Openlab, the CUNY Academic Commons, and just about every digital pedagogical platform around. In this post, he outlines some things you might not know, particularly if you’re new to WordPress Installations like ours (a bit of a simplified definition of the OpenLab, but for the purposes of Boone’s blog entry, it’ll work). But more than the outlining, he makes a strong case that platforms like ours, and the “WPedu” users who help develop and use and improve them day after day, are doing important, important work:
“…impressive innovations can be found all over the WPedu world. The innovation is motivated by the love of the work, and by principles: education should be open, individuals should control their data and their online identities, software should be free as in speech. These are the very same principles that are close to the hearts of free software enthusiasts.”
You can read more of Boone’s blog post here.
(Image by Jason Rosenberg via Creative Commons License)
