Images for Links
October 27, 2005I just saw in the WordPress.com faq blog a question about putting associating buttons and other images with links. The answer is that you can do this when you “Add Link.” There is a box for you to enter an image URL.
I just checked to see if EduBlogs.org is running a recent enough build to have this same box. It is, and it does. So, James, if you provide a sidebar-sized EduBlogs logo, I will gladly link to it from this blog. And I’m sure that many other grateful EduBloggers will do likewise.
I expect that many of the other WPMU hosts are running a recent enough build to have the same feature. So they, similarly, could offer their bloggers a button to wear proudly in the sidebar.
October 30th, 2005 at 4:22 pm
Nice Info. Thanks :)
October 30th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
Well you learn a new thing every day!
Thanks for the heads up on that… what I’ve been considering is a similar to “I power blogger” button but inserting it by default into the sidebar of themes (saves people uploading and probably gets more results).
The thing is to do something that doesn’t:
a. look horrible
b. annoy
c. get in the way
In fact I thought I’d do this as part of a general clean up of the themes available. Many of them have unnecessary text and bits which don’t work… and I could pop in an image like that then.
Guess my question is whether putting something like that in would be kinda ‘against the spirit’ of edublogs… should I just leave it up to each edublogger? Or would it make everyone’s life easier?
October 30th, 2005 at 7:42 pm
James,
I think that I would do the following:
- tell existing edubloggers of the existence of the button, request that they include it as an image link, and provide instructions for how to do it
- set up edublogs so that new blogs include the button via links. Those who don’t want the button can opt out by simply removing the link, or removing the button and leaving it as a text link
As you can see, I like the idea of doing this via links, which we the edubloggers can edit, rather than via templates, which we can’t.
I for one have my edublogs wear their buttons with pride and gratitude, however you want to do this.
November 18th, 2005 at 8:42 am
I’ve been able to get the “Sidebar Editor” plugin working at Blog Peoria. It will allow users to add and remove content from their sidebars, at least on the handfull of Kubrick-style theme’s I’ve installed. It involved manually switching out some code in files from each of these templates.
And I am intensly interesting in adding other plugins as well, is there a good comprehensive list of WPMu plugins?