=== Dell Edu-Connect === Contributors: clintonb11 Tags: education Requires at least: 3.0 Tested up to: 3.3 Stable tag: 0.1.2 Education Connect is a widget/plugin that helps connect education blogs around the World. == Description == Education Connect is a widget/plugin that helps connect education blogs around the World. The widget is a content aggregator for educational blog articles. The aggregator takes content from the highest quality EDU blogs and presents the titles and a brief summary within the widget. The widget has a special crawler that goes to a pre-set list of education blogs that are selected based on content quality. It then takes the title of the latest articles written by that blog and populates the widget sitting on the installer's website. Articles within the widget are then ranked based on a variety of social media factors to present only the best freshest articles. The goal of the EDU connect widget it to help users and publishers to discover new content and readers. Our hope is to help educators discover new educational technology along with connect with other educators to share best practices. == Installation == 1. Upload the `edu-connect` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress 1. Add the Edu-Connect widget to your sidebar through the `Appearance->Sidebar` menu == Frequently Asked Questions == = Which blogs are included? = We have hand-picked a selection of industry leading blogs to populate the widget. = Can I exclude certain blogs? = Yes, in the WordPress admin panel, click on Dell Services and you can choose to not include any of the blogs on our list. = Will this affect my website's loading time? = No, we use asyncronous javascript to load the article list from our servers, so your page loads as snappy as ever. == Changelog == = 0.1.2 = * Moved additional settings into the admin panel. * Added new blogs = 0.1.1 = * Small bug fixes = 0.1.0 = * First version