Adding The Sudent Blogs

I used to have students blog using one Wordpress install. I would then create student accounts on the site so they could add blog posts to it. This year, with a move to a new school, I thought I would try to change the way I did things. I signed up all the students with an edublogs accounts. This was a bit tough at first I had all sorts of problems with password resets but lately all has been working quite well. What I wanted was to aggregate my student blogs onto one site this “mother site” would be a place where I could post different activities for the students to take part in.

There are two Wordpress plugins that can help this all work, FeedWordPress and WP-o-Matic, both can do what I wanted. I ended up using WP-o-Matic. After installing this plugin and activating it I changed some of the default options in the Options Menu so the Feed Date and the Post title links to source were selected.

I noticed that when I clicked on the post category, in my case Our Class Posts, that I would only get part of the feed. To make sure I got all of the feed I changed the the_excerpt to the_content in the archive page template. This would allow me to see the full feed.

So now the content is automatically created based on the rss feeds coming from each student site. The only thing left to do is adding all of the student RSS feeds.