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This site is maintained by the blog.torontomu.ca support team, and is meant to be a testing ground for various solutions in WordPress. While this site is mostly used as an internal resource for the team, we thought it would be helpful to make it available to the public so you can benefit from some of our tests!

The focus for this blog:

• Try different settings in the various blocks that come with WordPress
• Find solutions for including different kinds of content (media, layouts, etc.)
• Show the uses for some of the plugins that we have added to blog.torontomu.ca.

Some recent posts…

• NextGEN Gallery TestingAugust 1, 2023
• (no title)March 24, 2023
• Embedding VideoMarch 24, 2023
• Can we watermark images?January 25, 2022
  Image block Using the standard image block, I don’t see a real way to add a watermark. You can tint … Continue reading “Can we watermark images?”
• Images and alt textApril 30, 2021
  In this post, I will look at adding alt text when uploading images, as well as adding them after they … Continue reading “Images and alt text”
• Youtube unavailable – can’t embedApril 12, 2021
  Most of the time, if you get a message that a Youtube video can’t be embedded, it’s because the content … Continue reading “Youtube unavailable – can’t embed”
• Video blockDecember 10, 2020
  This is a demonstration of the “video” block in WordPress. It serves a number of purposes, including displaying video uploaded … Continue reading “Video block”
• Youtube videoDecember 1, 2020
  We try a few different ways of embedding Youtube videos, with varying degrees of success.
• Testing commentsDecember 1, 2020
  This post is mostly here so I can test commenting.