Open Source Activism

I’ve answered this question a few times now, so I thought I’d add layout the instructions here. I will focus on the uploading of images and linking them while you are writing the post.

Before starting though, there is already a very good video showing this process on Youtube.

Just below the writing window you’ll see the following for uploading images.

Click Browse and locate the file on your computer you want to upload. Once you have chosen the file, enter its title and description. Make the title descriptive as well so this image will be easier to find later if you want to use it again. No click the Upload button. You will see the following in the upload area when it is finished.

You are now ready to add the image to your post. Click the “Send to editor” button and the code for the image is placed in the writing area.

Now finish editing your post and you are done.

Do you want to add a user to your wordpress blog? Here are the basic instructions for doing this in Wordpress 2.3:

• Login to your control panel
• Click Users
• Scroll down to Add User From Community as shown below
  
• Fill in the users email address
• Change the dropdown box to the level of authority you want the new user to have. I have a brief description below. For a full comparison of user roles see the Wordpress description.
  • Subscriber - Cannot do anything but read just like a normal visitor
  • Contributor - Write posts but cannot publish them
  • Author - Can write and publish posts
  • Editor - Same as author and can change categories, moderate comments, edit other users posts
  • Administrator - Everything

This procedure is for the more experienced since you will have to directly edit PHP code to do this filtering. Here are the steps to filter offensive or spam keywords inside the wordpress loop:
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Here are the steps to filter out a registered blog that you now longer want appearing in the syndicated feed list (We are using FeedWordPress to syndicate our feeds):
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Here are the steps to remove posts from your current syndicated feed (We are using FeedWordPress to syndicate our feeds):

Reminder, once you delete a post it cannot be restored in the admin screens. It can only be restored from a database backup or reposting.
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Here are the steps to prevent the registration of blogs from spammer domains or offensive domain names techniques:
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Here are the steps to prevent the registration of blogs with offensive names or words associated with spamming techniques:
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Here are the steps to delete a blog:

Reminder, once you delete a blog it cannot be restored in the admin screens. It can only be restored from a database backup.
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Here are the steps to mark a blog as a spammer:
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Marking a user as a spammer in Wordpress MU is rather straightfoward. The steps to do this are below.
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