If you have posts or comments in another system, WordPress can import those into this site. WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) file and will import the posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags into this site.

Simply import a WXR (.xml) file to upload.

In the new versions of WordPress 3.5 or later the LINKS tab on the left does not exist in the default dashboard.  To get the links tab back on the left menu in dashboard simply CLICK the plugins tab and look for

LINK MANAGER plugin. Activate the plugin and the links tab will appear again in the dashboard menu.

Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.

Links about Jetpack:       jetpack.me

Features about Jetpack:    wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/

To activate this plugin, simply go to the plugins tab on the left.  Look for Jetpack by WordPress, click activate. Once you have activated the plugin you will now see Jetpack under the Dashboard tab on the left menu. When you click on the Jetpack tab it should bring you to a page that tells you to connect your blog to WordPress.com, Click on the connect your blog with WordPress.com. It will redirect your to a login page. If you have a WordPress.com login simply use the username and password associated to the account. If you DO NOT have a WordPress.com account create one so that you can use the features offered by Jetpack.

From the site:

Features include:

• Simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server. Previously provided by WordPress.com Stats.
• Email subscriptions for your blog’s posts and your post’s comments.
• Social networking enabled comment system.
• Monitor and manage your site’s activity with Notifications in your Toolbar and on WordPress.com.
• Simple, Akismet-backed contact forms.
• The WP.me URL shortener.
• Hovercard popups for your commenters via Gravatar.
• Easily embedded media from popular sites like YouTube, Digg, and Vimeo.
• The ability to post to your blog from any email client.
• Integration with and automatic posting to your favorite social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and LinkedIn.
• For the Math geeks, a simple way to include beautiful mathematical expressions on your site.
• A widget for displaying recent tweets. Previously provided by Wickett Twitter Widget
• Your readers can easily share your posts via email or their favorite social networks. Previously provided by the Sharedaddy WordPress plugin.
• Your writing will improve thanks to After the Deadline, an artificial intelligence based spell, style, and grammar checker. Previously provided by the After the Deadline WordPress plugin.
• With Carousel active, any standard WordPress galleries you have embedded in posts or pages will launch a gorgeous full-screen photo browsing experience with comments and EXIF metadata.
• A CSS editor that lets you customize your site design without modifying your theme.
• A mobile theme that automatically streamlines your site for visitors on mobile devices.
• Mobile push notifications for new comments via WordPress mobile apps.
• The ability to allow applications to securely authenticate and access your site with your permission.
• Creative formats for your image galleries: mosaic, circles, squares, and a slideshow view.

To embed a Google Calendar to your blog select Appearance>Widgets. When in your widgets, Drag the Google Calendar Widget, into your desired Widget Area. Click the drop down arrow to change the appearance.

To embed and link your Google Calendar click on the link under “Embed Code:” under Google Calendar drop down. This will redirect your to Google Calendar helper to update your calendar attributes.

From the plugin site:http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/05/broken-link-checker-for-wordpress/

Features

• Detects links that don’t work, missing images, deleted YouTube videos and other problems.
• Periodically checks links in posts, pages, comments, custom fields and the blogroll.
• New and modified entries are checked ASAP.
• Notifies you on the Dashboard if any problems are found.
• Lets you edit all instances of a specific link at once.
• Gives you a list of all links ever posted on your site, with the ability to search and filter it.
• Lets you apply custom CSS styles to broken and removed links.
• Highly configurable.

The broken links show up in the Tools -> Broken Links tab along. If any invalid URLs are found a notification will also show up on the Dashboard widget. To save screen real-estate, the widget can be configured to stay closed most of the time and automatically expand when broken links are detected.

Steps to follow:

1. Activate the plug-in
2. In the plug-in settings:
   1. Type in the source URL where “Source URL” is indicated
   2. Type in the targeted URL where “Target URL” is indicated
   3. Click on Add Redirection
3. You can add different Redirections and to remove:
   1. Go back into redirect settings

Click on desired redirect you want removed and select delete

This will allow you create your own polls. You can register for a free account or choose to upgrade, dependent on the amount of responses that you need.

Steps to Follow:

1. Create a Poll Daddy account
2. Activate the Widget and enter your user email and password
3. Create a Poll
   1. You can create a poll at http://polldaddy.com and then use the short code and embed it into your post or page.
   2. You can also create the posts in your WordPress Dashboard.

i.      Select the question, answer, and themes.

ii.      Save

1. Then click on the link that says Polls (a widget on the left side of dashboard) and under the Poll you are referring to, select “Share-Embed” and then copy and paste the short code into any post or page.

On the Poll, you also have the option to edit the poll, review the results, preview, delete, and close the poll

1. Difference between creating the poll on the WordPress dashboard and creating it on polldaddy.com is that the site has the capabilities of building out the polls to a survey structure.  Creating a poll in WordPress is typically one question and then the desired answers.

To embed a calendar that you want, do the following:

1)      Use “Google Calendar Embedded Helper” and log in to your Google account.

2)      Fill in all the information on the left side of the page and select “update HTML”.  Note: Height should be 200 and width should be 200 (you can change to different pixels depending on your experience with coding). A Code should be in the textbox that you will copy( highlight and press CTRL “C”)

3)      Go back to your WordPress sidebar and paste the code in:

4)      The other fields are automatically updated. You can use these you do not paste the code in yourself and manually insert the information.

5)      The Calendar will be displayed in the sidebar of your pages.

• Confirm with your professor that a grade has been entered for you;
• Make sure the email entered by the professor is same as your community site email;

How to verify your email

• Ask the professor which email he used to enter the grades into the community site. Most likely it is something like this ” tu######@temple.edu”;
• Check your email registered on the community site go to the top menu bar where it says My Account > Settings> General
• Chances are the email you are registered with on the community site is different;
• If the emails are different change your email on the site, to the one used by the professor, because all professors will be using the same email address.