WordPress vs edublogs
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I have used my wordpress account for over a year and decided to start a new one for the new school year. I decided to use edublogs.org because it appears they have more options as far as themes go. Many of the themes there are from wordpress. Why is it these themes are not as user friendly as wordpress themes? For example, it does not give me an option in my profile for edublog to add a picture but I can do this here. Another thing..if I am logged in and on my home page, I can see buttons for “My Account”, “Dashboard” and “New Post” but I do not get these on edublog. Why is this?
Wordpress appears better, perhaps because I am used to it, but edublog’s themes are better. It appears that edublog uses quite a bit from wordpress…why not have some themes that edublog has? -
I’m afraid this is the wrong site to ask for a comparative analysis; we’re WP.com specific. Edublogs is run on WordPress software, but is a separate multiuser install, another universe as it were (as I understand it). That’s why your WP password won’t work there although it works here.
As for themes, they’re a lower priority for staff to install. For one thing, they all have to be adapted for our software here, and for another they don’t actually relate to the content of the blog except in a framing or cosmetic sense, so they’re not considered as critical as software and security updates, or new widgets. If you find a particular theme you’d really like, you can always suggest it to staff via your Feedback button (works M-F).
One possible reason they don’t allow pix in profiles is that edublogs are specifically geared for the post-secondary environment, and in that context they may feel it best to be less personal. God knows, the Rachel Marsden experience has taught SFU a lesson!
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I bet James Farmer would love to provide avatars in user profiles on his wpmu install as well as other WPMU hosts, but this feature is driven by one of Automattic’s proprietary closed pieces of .com code which he simply just doesn’t have an access to.
not sure why he doesn’t have a Matt Read’s ‘WP Admin Bar’ plugin installed, perhaps due to WP[MU] existing architecure it can be a real PITA either modify an each theme already installed, or use a dubious hack to have adminbar displayed with each theme in use without editing it’s template manually.
these are purely technical limitations of WP platform; politically correct BS (like SFU harassment controversy) ain’t a reason.
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That’s surprising to me: I’ve specifically heard edublogs referred to for those with privacy/internet weirdness concerns.
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PR stuff, I guess. I can’t see any edublogs’ difference from wp.com regarding privacy matters technically as it’s basically the same WPMU.
admittedly, I like the short edublogs’ Privacy statement more than Automattic’s one, esp. in the part of ‘Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information’ (like: “A. discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information … and *affiliated organizations* …”, and: “A. discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information .., or when A. *believes in good faith* that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Automattic, *third parties or the public at large*.”) but this legalese is, probably, quite a common place for web-services like that.
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Oh, absolutely it’s not the software; it’s the guidelines and practices there. Social engineering, not software engineering. Still, those things make the single biggest difference to someone’s experience. It’s far more effective to teach people to be aware of their privacy than it is to block hacks…most stalkers, for instance, aren’t skilled hackers.
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It seems edublogs is for teachers and students and that may be reflected in the privacy policy they have developed.
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