I am also working to collaborate with other large homeschool sites to mutually include as many sites as we are able.

~Ann Zeise

This new A2Zhomeschool.com feature, WP Hashcash, automatically works on all blogs regardless of the theme you may choose or switch to. (If not comment here)

It does have ONE limitation. Please read the information at this link WP Hashcash. Everything is handled for you by this global enhancement, in the battle to eliminate spam comments, (approx. 70 of comments are spam), this email is for your information in case someone contacts you directly about problems leaving a comment on your blog. They must have javascript enabled in the browser they are using, most people do. However, anyone who contacts you, you can direct them to the link below to activate their javascript.

Limitations:

• Activate JavaScript - To Leave Comments or Create a A2Zhomeschool.com Blog you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser, if you are using Firefox/Mozilla, then you must get the JavaScript plug-in for Firefox.

WP Hashcash relies on the presence of two hooks in your theme, wp_head and comment_form. If your theme doesn’t include these actions, you will need to add them immediately before the </head> and </form> tags respectively.

This has reduced our spam to almost zero.

If you do not see “Powered by WP Hashcash”

below your comments section on your blog, please comment here.

admin, david

Additional note: Check the last plugin you activated, de activate it and see if the display problem is fixed.

admin

• One Forum per blog. You can try it for free until further notice.
• Forums will be an upgrade feature. See more Upgrades in your admin area under the Manage tab.

How to set up a Forum on your blog.

1. Log into your blog admin area.
2. Go to Manage > Forums >
3. One forum is allowed per blog. (will be a upgrade shortly)
4. Click on ‘new’ forum. Fill in the field information boxes.
5. Name, Description etc.
6. Save Forum
7. Click on Forums tab, see new Manage Forums table.
8. Copy the Forum Code listed in the box, [xxxxxxx].
9. Go to Write > Page, name the page ‘Forum’ (fill in the title box)
10. Paste Forum Code (it is on your clip board) into the body of the page, you may add text as well. Publish. View page.

http://a2zhomeschool.com/feed/ Things will be added daily for a while, subscribe to the RSS feed.

We apologize it took so long to get this multi blog application to work correctly. We wanted and needed to go to the lastest version and because Wordpress is open source, it can be problematic at times. Wordpress is a great tool and makes it easy for anyone belonging to a blog community like A2Zhomeschool.com to have a findable website/blog.

You should be able to log into your accounts now. If you still have the original emails, please use the information included to log in. Or http://a2zhomeschool.com/your blog name/wp-admin/ then enter user id or email address used and click on reset password. Follow instructions in the 2 emails.

If you have a problem please email, directly to this email address, your problem.

 daansystems(at)comcast.net

 I will delete the blog, however the name and email address used to create that blog will be blocked for approx. 48 hours. (spammer issue)

 This way we know we are starting fresh, with new underlying password encryption.

 We have 94 themes that are widget ready easy to start using. You can add content, set up catagories, manage the basic settings in the admin area of your blog, NOTE plugins management is located under the Manage tab, not next to the site admin tab.

 We want to thank Shawn our server guy for getting us going. Shawn K. Hall http://12PointDesign.com/.. Contact him for website hosting and other server side projects.

 We will be in contact soon with more updates about A2Zhomeschool.com.

 For now check out the great training videos.

 We are working on the site and welcome your suggestions, corrections.

David - admin - daansys
A2Zhomeschool.com

 and

 Ann Zeise - A2Zhomeschool.com Team

It will keep you up to date and get this community of blogs indexed with the search engines.

We thank you for your cooperation.

Ann is setting up this a2zblogs site up and providing the technical support person to keep things going.

In addition and more importantly is the credibility and visitor base she brings to this homeschool blogs for homeschoolers and supporters.   This ensures a quick start.

This means we will need quality people to take over the highly desired blog names.  Such as the name ‘homeschoolnews’ needs a person interested in blogging daily and keeping our community at a2z up to date.

We will have a list of these of more of these shortly.  For now if you take a name for your blog we fill needs the right person, please understand if we contact you for more information if you want to take on that niche.

List (incomplete)

homeschool, homeschooling, accredited curriculum, homeschooler, homeschoolers, etc.

If you are major player and want your business name go ahead and signup for it and we will contact you for verification.

Do you have ideas, expertise, images …. what do you have in mind?

Leave a comment for now.

daansys-admin

 Thumbnail Large, Thumbnail Large Alt, Thumbnail, Thumbnail Alt

Ideas for blogs:
* Personal Homeschool Journal
* Homeschool Advice Center
* Curriculum Swap
* Homeschool Support Group Space
* Homeschool Event Announcements
* Homeschool Product Announcements
* Personal Blog for Homeschool Authors, Speakers, Webmasters

269532107_njsl-sites-005.php

1924322746_widget_widgetbox.php

1780703027_ft_wpmu_metatags.php

ad-sharing.php

avatars.php

blog-activity.php

blog-types.php

content_monitor.php

forums.php

mass_mailer.php

plugin-commander.php

power-tools.php

signup-tos.php

upgrades_framework.php

upgrades_payment_module_paypal.php

widget-avatar.php

Listem

Listem is a WordPress MU plugin developed off of List-All plug-in for WordPress MU created by
Andrew Billits (http://www.wpmudev.org/project/list-all).

This is an updated version that allows ordering alphabetically as well. Creates a list of all blogs on a WPMU site.

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INSTALLATION:

Place the listem.php file in your mu-plugins directory

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Function: listem($blog_limit=”, $name_or_url=’name’, $begin_wrap=’<li>’, $end_wrap=’</li>’, $order_by=’alpha’)

All parameters are optional, can simply be called in your template as <?php listem(); ?> and the default settings
above will take the lead.

Parameter descriptions:

$blog_limit - This paramater is is you wish to limit the number of blogs to show. The default is unlimited.

$name_or_url - This parameter defines whether you wish to show the blog name or url within the link. Default is blog name.
Parameter Options: This parameter will accept either ‘name’ or ‘url’ as a valid value.

$begin_wrap - This parameter defines what appears before the listing. The default is a beginning <li> list item tag.

$end_wrap - This parameter defines what appears after the listing. The default is a ending </li> list item tag.

$order_by - This parameter determines how the list will be ordered.  Default is ‘alpha’.
Parameter Options: This paramater will accept ‘updated’ which lists blogs by last updated, ‘first_created’ which lists by blog creation
oldest to newest, ‘last_created’ which lists by blog creation newest to oldest, and ‘alpha’ which lists blogs alphabetically.

Example using default settings:

<?php listem(); ?>

Example defining parameters:

<?php listem(’5′, ‘name’, ‘<div>’, ‘</div>’, ‘updated’); ?>

<?php listem(’100′, ‘name’, ‘<div>’, ‘</div>’, ‘last_created’); ?>

<?php listem(’5′, ‘name’, ‘<div>’, ‘</div>’, ‘updated’); ?>

<?php listem(’1000′, ‘name’, ‘<div>’, ‘</div>’, ‘first_created’); ?>

The above code will list 5 blogs by name within div tags by last updated.

Plugin Name: Blog Activity
Author: Andrew Billits

Files:
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blog-activity.php - goes in /wp-content/mu-plugins

Instructions:
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1) Place the files in the specified directories
2) Visit the plugin page under the site admin - the auto-installer will attempt to install the plugin
3) If the auto-install does not add the db table(s) for you then run the sql code in “sql.txt” on your wpmu db

Extra Goodies
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You can also place the stats anywhere on your blog

Function:

display_blog_activity_posts(PERIOD_IN_MINUTES)
display_blog_activity_comments(PERIOD_IN_MINUTES)
display_blog_activity_updated(PERIOD_IN_MINUTES)

EXample 1:
display_blog_activity_posts(5); will display the number of posts within the last five minutes

Example 2:
<p><?php display_blog_activity_updated(10); ?> blogs have been updated in the last ten minutes.</p>

This is a list of MU plugins in the MU folder

Manage plugins on all the blogs.

1368760174_plugman.php

http://wpmudev.org/project/Plugin-Manager

Manage plugins on all the blogs.

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Manage the meta tags

1780703027_ft_wpmu_metatags.php

This plugin gives you the ability to set custom ‘description’ and ‘keywords’ meta tags in the ‘head’ area of your site. The plugin is helpful because it gives the site admin the ability to set keywords and description for every page on every blog (site wide) and then it allows each individual blog admin to set their own description and keywords. The plugin then combines them into one before inserting the result into the head of your website. This is my first plugin for WPMU. Please let me know if you find anything that I should be doing differently.

To adjust the site wide keywords and description, sign in as a site administrator and go to the settings tab in the admin area. To adjust the keywords and description for a single blog, log in as a single blog admin (without site admin privileges) and navigate to the settings tab in the backend. Plugin Home: http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/wpmu-meta-tags

http://wpmudev.org/project/WPMU-Custom-Meta-Tags

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Manage menu access for blogs

572978637_ds_toggle_admin_menus.php

Options see the new options in site admin. Be careful here.

http://wpmudev.org/project/Menus

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not used.

Limit number of users added to blog

Owner: Dsader

Type: WPMU Plugin

Created: 2008-07-30 21:50:50

Last Modified: 2008-07-30 21:50:50

ds_users_limit.php (35 download(s))

Allows MU Site Admins(Site Admin–>Options) to limit the number of users that can be added by a blog admin before the “Add user from community” form is hidden.

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More Privacy Options

unable to get to work yet 8-11-2008

Owner: Dsader

Type: WPMU Plugin

Created: 2008-07-09 04:09:18

Last Modified: 2008-07-09 04:09:18

ds_private_blog25.php (243 download(s))

Adds three more levels of privacy to the Options–>Privacy page. Drop into mu-plugins.

1. Blog visible to any logged in community member.

2. Blog visible only to registered users of blog.

3. Blog visible only to administrators.

UPDATE 2.0 all options redirect through login.php, securing blog feeds now, too.(site-wide feed???)

Update May/24/08: site admin can also set privacy at misc. blog actions in wpmu-blogs.php

Update 2.2 May 29/08 removed cookie checks causing infinite redirects in WPMU1.5.1

Update 2.3 July3/08 added check for logged in user fixing more infinite redirects in WPMU1.5.1

Update 2.5 July 9/08 More tweaks. Added a timed refresh/redirect message for logged in users in the same css as the login page.