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Some old themes have been cleaned out, and we’ve added shiny new themes to take advantage of WordPress 3.1′s new features. There’s TONS of customizations you can do – including a couple themes for those of you who like posting lots of pictures.
Have fun!
Creating a new blog has finally been sorted out, but currently allowed only for our users who have already signed up. If you’re a member, just head on over to the signup page at homeschooljournal.net/wp-signup.php
I’ve received a couple emails and seen a couple blog posts about embedding videos. The way we allowed it before was a workaround, and now WordPress allows a very simple way to embed a video.
just put the url of the video all on one line all by itself. NOT the embedd code: the URL, the bit up in the address bar if you were going to send it as a link.
See embeds for more info.
There’s a new theme in town called Flexx which is the version we’re using for the homepage and you can choose for your blog too. And in case you don’t want to look like us, or really want to tweak your themes’ colors easily, I added an awesome plugin called Theme Tweaker. It gives you a color picker AND shows you what colors are in your theme already. See?
I know a number of you like to take pretty pictures, and now we have the GREAT new gallery feature built right in! The photo uploader is much improved, and just as a reminder, you have 30 megs of storage. You can resize your pictures before uploading and this will make them smaller.
There’s a button in the media uploader to insert a bunch of uploaded pictures as a gallery, but just in case you want to do it manually, all you have to do is add [ gallery ] to a post (no spaces), and it will display every picture attached to that post in a neat 3 column format by default.
See?
I can tell it to show 2 columns if I want. And link to each picture on a separate page, or to the file.
(The huge gap I’m working on – it’s my theme, not the gallery feature. 
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