Re: Blog for gathering comments on draft report

Thanks so much for doing this, Monica! I can be an admin, if you like (use jodi.a.schneider@gmail.com ). These are good comment settings.

A clean theme would be the veryplaintext one:
http://www.plaintxt.org/#veryplaintxt

Did we decide on whether digress.it would be a good plugin to use? 

Whoever does post the report -- I'd suggest posting it in small sections, but making sure that the navigation makes sense (i.e. the default shows the first part first, the table of contents shows up in a sidebar).

Perhaps somebody can suggest how to display "recent comments" in a sidebar? This should be a simple change and I know it's common in many blogs.

-Jodi

On 20 Jun 2011, at 13:42, Monica Duke wrote:

> I took an action on Thursday to set up a blog to be used to gather comments on the draft report from the wider community.  The blog is now available at:
> http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/w3clld/
> 
> # If I may suggest 2 next steps:
> 1)We need to agree how we are going to post the report and do it asap - we did not agree this detail on the call. I guess it would be best if 2-3 volunteers (or even just 1?) took care of that.  We can't spend too much time on deciding and doing it so we do not miss the chance to add the url to any emails being sent out to lists to request comments.
> 
> 2) I need to give access to others in the group who can help administer the blog and post to it (as will be agreed in 1).  I suggest that I add one or two more as administrators, and others as editors.  Please send me email addresses and roles as soon as they are agreed, and I will add them.
> 
> # Comments settings - the following are selected (this can of course be changed)
> 
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> Comment author must have a previously approved comment (i.e. comment will be moderated until user has a first one approved)
> 
> # Appearance
> I suspect others will agree that other than for purposes of usability we do not spend much time on cosmetics.  I have done the basic, but I can make other changes in response to suggestions, and once we have one or two other administrators they too will be able to assist with this.
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> Basic Wordpress features, plug-ins, settings etc are available.
> 
> Monica