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Comment spam is a fact of life if you have a blog. One way to combat it is to make commenters add a code that is unreadable to spambots. You’ll notice a few new plugins added to help you in this - Spam Karma, Bad Behavior and Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam. If you use […]

Things are looking good after the recent move to our new server.  We’ve negotiated an Akismet key with the great guys over at Wordpress; Akismet is a superb spamtrapper.  Activate the plugin, and use this key to restrict the comment spam you’re getting:
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Those using ethink in schools should advise their students to apply it too.  […]

eThink is in the process of moving home to a new server.  We’re trying to make it as painless as possible for you - you shouldn’t notice the difference - but there might just be some hiccups.  Please bear with us for a few days and don’t post anything vital until you see the OK […]

New themes have been added to the collection Check out your presentation pages.For working straight out of the box, themes are a bit hit and miss. Wordpress themes ought to just work but sometimes need tweaking for Wordpress Multiuser (which is what you are looking at). Thankfully, there are now a number […]

After we discovered a problem with uploading m4a files, we have now installed a plugin to allow you to change the filename extensions you want to allow. The syntax is a bit different but fear not - here are a few of the ones you are likely to want to add:
m4a […]

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We’ve said it for ages, wiki is a great tool for developing collaborative projects in the same way that blogging helps to build a personal voice and conversation on the web. We’re very excited therefore about working with Wikispaces, and over the summer we ar working towards offering a free Wikispaces […]

After a recent update, eThink now recognises the .m4a extension for enhanced podcasts and will create rss enclosures for these files.  These play in the Quicktime viewer or in iTunes.

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