This week one of my eager beaver overachiever students is trying to implement something that I mentioned in class last week; namely, how you can send content directly from Google Reader to WordPress.com. I sent her a link from an article that I found that she’s having trouble implementing my suggestions. Despite the fact that we haven’t covered WordPress in class yet, I’m going to take pity on her [ :-D ] and do a screen cast with complete instructions. Here goes:

http://youtu.be/bfaxNOD9Cro

Code:

Body to WordPress.org:

http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=${url}&t=${title}&s=${body}

Source to WordPress.org:

http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=$url&t=$title&s=$source

Body to WordPress.com:

http://yoursite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=$url&t=$title&s=$body

Source to WordPress.com:

https://toddlohenry.wordpress.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=$url&t=$title&s=$source

A note about icons. The are not necessary but you can use a tool like http://www.favicon.cc/ to create a favicon, upload to your multimedia and use in the icon field like so http://e1evation.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/favicon1.ico