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With the faffing I’ve had to do with the latest Wordpress upgrade it’s brought home to me just how much I don’t need to be wasting time with things that are of marginal utility/value. Granted, creating EduPress was a welcome diversion at the time, but now it’s a bit of an albatross. So here endeth the EduPress project. At the end of the day it was merely a customised version of Wordpress, so it’s easy to replicate given the right tools. Read on to download some things from the EduPress project which may be of value to your blog…

First of all, I created some guides to installing, configuring, creating content, setting advanced options, and podcasting with EduPress which are, of course, transferable to Wordpress installations. They are below for your downloading pleasure:

• Installation & Configuration (595KB PDF)
• Creating Content (276KB PDF)
• Advanced Options (627KB PDF)
• Podcasting (116KB PDF)

EduPress used K2 as a theme and I created a few headers which reflected various subjects which could be easily changed through the random header plugin. I’ve zipped them up and there available for download here:

• K2 Headers (1.6MB)

A fair few plugins were included as standard to make EduPress attractive and useful to educators. Here’s the full list:

• Adhesive - allows easy marking of 'sticky' posts.
• Admin Drop Down Menu - replaces admin menu and submenu with a 2 level horizontal CSS dropdown menu bar.
• Admin Menu - adds a convenient admin menu to the top of your blog (when logged-in).
• Angsuman's Authenticated Wordpress Plugin - this plugin allows you to make your site accessible to logged in users only: in other words to view your site they have to create / have an account in your site and be logged in.
• Audio Player - highly configurable embedded mp3 player.
• Autohyperlink - automatically turns text into hyperlinks.
• Brian's Latest Comments - shows the latest comments that have been made in the sidebar.
• Dunstan's Time Since - tells the time between the entry being posted and the comment being made.
• EditorMonkey - turns the normal text input area into a WYSIWYG editor - also integrates spell checking into the editor interface.
• EmailShroud - allows you to display your email address without it being 'harvested' for spamming purposes.
• Extended Live Archives - provides an easy-to-use way to find past posts.
• External Links - shows whether a link is an 'internal' or an 'external' link (i.e. whether the link is to another website or not).
• Filosofo Old-Style Upload - allows the uploading of any type of file through the EduPress admin interface.
• Lazyest Gallery - easy gallery management plugin.
• PodPress - makes podcasting a straightforward and easy process.
• Random Header - this plugin allows you to add a random header image to your blog.
• Spam Karma 2 - ultimate comment spam killer.
• Tiger Style Administration - changes the look of the admin area for the better.
• Wordpress Database Backup - on-demand backup of your Wordpress/EduPress database.
• Wordpress Mobile Edition - redirects mobile devices to a mobile friendly interface.
• WP-ContactForm - drop-in form for users to contact you - can be implemented on a page or a post.
• WP-Print - adds a link to each post to a printer-friendly version.
• X-Dashboard - allows you to customize your dashboard.

The EduPress site and forum will remain up until 1 September 2006 at which time it will be deleted. If anyone wants to continue the project or just use the name, feel free to contact me. I’ve got the domain name edupress.org if anyone’s interested…

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