Posted in Development, comments, akismet, spam, spam karma 2, , Plugin, wpmu, wpmu development, community, UMW Blogs, wpmued, Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2008 Comments Off
After reading this post by D’Arcy about how easy and free it is to get Akismet up and running for WordPress Multi-User, I finally decided to take the plunge and replace the developmentally languishing Spam Karma 2 with Akismet–I’ll miss you SK2! The setup was easy, and putting the link in the footer (which guarantees […]
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Posted in sitewide tags, feedwordpress, , andre malan, bdp rss, mara scanlon, eduglu, class blog, wpmued, tags, wordpress multi-user, wpmu development, umwblogs, wpmu, widgets, UMW Blogs, RSS, Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
Image courtesy of Looking for Fish tacos at ELI 2006, aka CogDog.
Well, I have finally gotten a free minute to get this all down, and get it down I will in hopes that I can drum up some help and support in working through a couple of the issues we’re having with FeedWordPress. So, […]
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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 UMW Blogs on Aug 20th, 2008 Comments Off
UMW Blogs Redesigned
UMW Blogs is featuringitself this time, for it has put on a new theme for the new academic year. Wearing the elegant theme PrimePress by Ravi Varma, thanks to the unfailing eye for great looking sites of Andy “Edu”Rush. Moreover, the custom images of Mary Washington were taken and freely shared by our […]
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Posted in UMW Blogs on Mar 30th, 2008 Comments Off
Did you know you can embed Flickr Slideshow on your UMW Blog? Below is an example, along with a quick how-to:
It is a three step process assuming you already have a set on Flickr you want to embed.
1) Copy the full URL of the photo set on Flickr and then paste it into the […]
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Posted in themes, UMW Blogs, aesthetics, UMW Blogs News on Mar 30th, 2008 Comments Off
Andy Rush keeps the themed hits coming, in addition to the 7 New Themes for UMW Blogs we just released for UMW Blogs, there are two more new themes you can demo below. And while these themes are certainly attractive, as of yet do not have the option for a customized header image. Rest […]
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Posted in UMW Blogs, YouTube, UMW Blogs News on Jan 17th, 2008 Comments Off
Check out the following two video tutorials by Andy Rush dealing with the finer elements of UMW Blogs.
How to change your password
How to use the Flickr Albums Plugin
Original post by reverend
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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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…R-S-S-I-N-G.
I happened upon Middlesell early this morning (this site is an independent homepage for UMW students established by the inimitable Bobby Durette) only to discover that posts from around UMW Blogs are being fed into this space. How fascinating!
Now it really shouldn’t come as a surprise to me, for Bobby is a remarkable guy […]
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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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