Posted in course sites, , feedwordpress, sitewide tags, syndicated framework, wpmued, UMW Blogs, wordpress multi-user, wpmu development, wpmu, RSS, plugins, Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2008 Comments Off
OK, I’m officially in full blown UMW Blogs blogging mode, I will most likely prove insufferable for the next month or so, and that’s just the way it is, suckas!
Steve Harris Stalinism Blog (Oh what a header)
Today I actually gave my first advanced training session on WordPress to a group of five faculty. And […]
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Posted in plugins, feeds, RSS, wpmu, wordpress multi-user, Wordpress on Dec 6th, 2007 Comments Off
Cole Camplese has had some excellent posts recently thinking about the ability of RSS feeds to connect a campus publishing community. I have been doing a lot of experimentation in this area over the last year or so, and his posts here and here are really useful examinations of what might be possible as […]
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A site that I have been working on with professor Marie McAllister in the English, Linguistics, and Speech department here at UMW has me extremely excited these days. And I decided to blog it early so that my co-workers don’t have to suffer through me talking about it ad nauseum. The site is […]
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Posted in plugins, wpmu, wordpress multi-user, Wordpress on Dec 4th, 2007 Comments Off
So what plugins are we using at UMW Blogs? Well, there is a two-part answer to this question, which site wide plugins (mu-plugins) are we using and which user-activated plugins have we made available. Below you will find a list of each that we are using along with a brief description of the plugin and […]
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Posted in Hack, hacks, Plugin, simple forums, UMW Blogs, plugins, Wordpress, wordpress multi-user, wpmu, wordpress mutli-user, umwblogs on Nov 18th, 2007 Comments Off
Once again, I must thank Dr. Mike for pointing me to the Simple Forums plugin at Yellow Swordfish. This is an amazing plugin that basically allows you to include a pretty powerful forum right into a blog on WPMu. You can see it in action on the Yellow Swordfish site here, or take a […]
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Well, I hate to quote our fearless leader out of turn, but unlike him I really was successful!
I had blogged earlier this semester about the potential possibilities available to UMW if we were to pursue mapping multiple domains to one WordPress Multi-User installation–one install, one upgrade, one point of failure–the last one is a quote […]
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Posted in tags, archive, search, tagging, UMW Blogs, plugins, wpmu, wordpress mutli-user, instructional technology, Hacking a Virtual Learning Space, wordpress multi-user on Nov 4th, 2007 Comments Off
Sitewide tags was one of the elements of UMW Blogs I spent a bit of time working on this past Summer. In fact, one particular workaround allows you to have a sitewide tag cloud as well as sitewide searching of blog posts, and a dynamic archive of posts–all without any hacks to the core files […]
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Just found this simple and quite useful plugin called Change Blog URL by Kt that allows you to change the URL of your WPMu blog with one click. I tested it out on UMW Blogs and it works flawlessly with version 1.25a.
This plugin allows blog user to change their blog URL from existing […]
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Posted in plugins, wordpress mutli-user, wpmu, Wordpress on Sep 22nd, 2007 Comments Off
I have been experimenting with yet a few more possibilities on our WordPress Multi-User installation at UMW Blogs. One of which I am particularly excited about, so I’ll start there.
WPMu Comment Tracking and Display
This plugin (available on WPMUDEV.org) is pretty awesome from what I can make of it thus far. What it […]
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While doing a quick sweep for WordPress Multi-User plugins on WPMuDev.org I came across two plugins that make me all the more certain that WordPress is without question the premiere open-source online publishing platform freely available to everyone.
“More Privacy Options” Plugin
The first, and maybe the most impressive plugin yet (at least for […]
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