Do you ever found a link to a good
teaching and learning material but often lost the link in a period of time?
This is a quite familiar situation that
a computer user experienced when using the internet browser. There are several
ways to keep track of the link such as saving the link as a bookmark or
favourite in the internet browser or save it in a Notepad application.
However, all options mentioned above is
an offline process, means you do not necessarily need an internet connection to
do so. Therefore in this post, we would like to recommend one of the way to
store and keep links online so that you do not need to worry if you suddenly
need to reformat your computer without losing the links. The recommendation is
to use WordPress.com.
About
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open-source
content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a
plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than
23.3% of the top 10 million websites as of January 2015. WordPress is the most
popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.
WordPress started in 2003 with a single
bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users
than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the
largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and
seen by tens of millions of people every day.
What
You Can Use WordPress For
WordPress started as just a blogging
system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so
much more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and themes, WordPress is
limited only by your imagination.
Storing
Links in WordPress.com
Some users sync their browser with their
email accounts so that all links bookmarked in their internet browser are
stored in the cloud storage. These links are stored privately and are not
available to be viewed publicly.
However, some users rather contribute to
the society by sharing links of good website with the public so that everyone
can enjoy the work piece of others together among themselves. An example is our
lecturer's blog, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.
In her blog, she shared all materials
and links that are related to teaching and learning process. These materials
are useful for other educators in looking for teaching materials and aids
without spending too much time browsing the web. It is similar to a situation
where the administrator of the website is actually put other work on
ease by helping them look for materials faster than the usual.
Features
of WordPress.com
There are several basic features of
WordPress that enables its user to store the links online and publicly.
1. Pages
on the header
Just like any other websites, WordPress
enables its user to create a page that will appear as a tab button below the
header image of the blog. Page is similar to other regular posts but it is
created as a pinned post where it is always there on the top and easily
accessible by the website’s guests.
2. Video
embedding
WordPress also allows video to be
embedded and viewed through the blog without being redirected to the video’s
website such as YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and others.
3. Links
in post
Links the user wished to store publicly
can be lists in a post and posted online so that the user can search for it
whenever necessary. It is advisable to put a tag on the post so that it is
systematic and easier to find without scrolling through other posts.
4. Links
in widgets
If posting links in a post is seemed
difficult, the user can also store the link in the widget that usually locate
at the right-side of the blog. This is a better and easier way to store a link,
but it can only store the link without a little description about the link.
Whereas through a post, the user can modify the content with adding extra
information so that the guests could understand easily.
So there it is, the tips on on how to store links online, publicly.
Hope it helps. Cheers.
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