We’ve been on a roll the past month releasing many new plugins available to our Pro and Campus users. If you haven’t clicked on the ‘Plugins’ link in your blog’s dashboard lately, you might want to take a quick look.
The newest addition will allow you to bring in RSS feeds from any blog or

If you have a blog on Edublogs.org, you probably have seen information about Edublogs Campus. We get many questions each day asking us to give a bit more information on Campus, and I’d like to take this opportunity to point out a few of the main reasons why you should consider it for your

Tags are an excellent way to organize blog posts and helps blog visitors browse posts based on a specific topic.
Tag clouds are a useful way of showing which tags are more popular than others on a blog.  The larger the size of the word in the tag cloud the more posts that have been

Exciting news!
We are working on a new directory at Edublogs which will allow you to easily sort through and find blogs based on type or location.
To help us get started, we would love anyone that would like their blog to be included in the directory when we launch to complete the form below:

In case you missed it, yesterday our own Sue Waters published A Twitteraholic’s Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter. If you haven’t jumped into the whole Twitter experience yet, you might be surprised at how many educators are using Twitter to collaborate and learn from each other.
Each day, on Edublogs and beyond, thousands of

Message boards, or forums, are commonplace on many websites around the web. Many people turn them when planning a vacation, for advice, or to get help (like on our Edublogs support forums).
Forums are increasingly popular in the classroom as well as a way to organize and foster collaboration among students.
Edublogs Pro and Campus users

Our third new plugin released this week is an easy way to integrate Facebook with your blog.

The Facebook Like plugin gives you the ability to quickly add a ‘like’ button at the beginning or end of posts or pages.
To give it a try, don’t be afraid to click on “like” at the bottom of this

As promised, we are releasing THREE new plugins this week!  
The first is an easy way of accepting payments or donations right inside your blog.
The second, which has been a highly requested feature, gives you the ability to place a calendar on any post or page in your blog.
This plugin can be used as an

This week we are unveiling THREE new plugins available to Pro and Campus users!  These will seriously increase the functionality and versatility of Edublogs.
To start off with, we have …

… a PayPal plugin which makes it easy for teachers and educators to accept payments and donations!
Imagine being able to allow parents or students the ability to

Did you know that two of our newest premium themes can make your blog look like it is right out of Twitter or Facebook?  We bet students are going to love these!
The Retweet Theme
The Retweet theme is highly customizable, complete with multiple background images and the ability to choose from any color scheme imaginable.

Other features

Many of the new themes now available to Pro and Campus users have unique features that we think you will be excited about. P2, the theme, is no exception!

Designed for discussion and collaboration, P2 combines the instant update ability of Facebook walls, the quick posting nature of Twitter, and the tagging and post features

While we have more than 5,000 followers on Twitter, we really haven’t wandered into the pages of Facebook before – that is until now!
Our new Facebook page is an excellent way to keep up with the latest news and educational uses of Edublogs.
We are keeping track of all new “likes” between now and Tuesday the

As part of the extensive theme updates we recently launched, every single theme can now take advantage of threaded comments.
Here is an example of what threaded comments are and what you can do with them:

Complete the following steps to activate threaded comments on your blog:
1. Disable the threaded comments plugin if you currently have it

As of today, we have over a dozen excellent and popular plugins available to Pro and Campus blogs!
After listening to feedback from recent user surveys, and in line with our commitment to providing the most useful and powerful educational blogging experience in the world, we are working on adding even more plugins in the near

With the recent addition of 33 new themes available for your blog, you might be interested in our latest help video, “Changing Your Blog Theme”.  This video is also great to show to students or teachers just starting out with Edublogs.   Enjoy!

P.S. In case you are curious about how I embedded this video right

Have you been looking for a way to manage and update your blog when you are away from your computer?
We’ve compiled this list of FREE mobile apps that are compatible with all Edublogs Pro and Campus accounts.
In addition, any Pro user can add mobile blogging capabilities on up to 50 student blogs by following these

You may have noticed recently that there are a lot more options when it comes to themes to use on Edublogs.
We now have a whopping 137 themes to choose from, including 33 new snazzy themes available to Pro users.
And alongside that, we’ve added new features to almost every single theme – including threaded comments, extra