Yesterday morning I went to visit a faculty member—Andy Smith in Historic Preservation—who has been using Google sites for a project she is working on called Fred Buildings. It is actually one of the nicer sites I’ve seen built with Google Sites, and her question for me was about mapping a domain onto Google sites. [...]
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Domain Mapping on Google Sites and UMW Blogs
Published by February 23rd, 2010 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsThe flowers of H.D.’s HERmione and Gynopod
Published by February 13th, 2010 in UMW Blogs. 2 CommentsMara Scanlon’s “Women in Modernism” (aka as “Gynomod,” or more recently “the womb”) course blog is on fire, and having had first-hand experience of her teaching for all of last semester, it is really no surprise. She is able to bring her energy and passion for poetry—and literature more generally—into every facet of her teaching, [...]
Deleting old MySQL tables across blogs and databases in WPMu
Published by January 25th, 2010 in UMW Blogs, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsOK, so this will probably be the final installment of my “pimp your WPMu databases” series Part one was moving from WPMuDEV’s Multi-DB package to SharDB; part two dealt with optimizing tables across a number of databases in MySQL, and the final installation will share some SQL code, once again thanks to Gowtham, [...]
Changing the Oil on a Multi-Database WPMu Install
Published by January 24th, 2010 in UMW Blogs, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 5 CommentsAnd to build on my last post about Moving from Multi-DB to SharDB on WPMu, here is a rundown on some of the work done to further optimize the multiple-databases for our WPMu at UMW Blogs.
First off, we have a plugin install called WordPress MU Sitewide Tag Pages that basically republishes every public post [...]
Moving from Multi-DB to SharDB on WPMu
Published by January 24th, 2010 in UMW Blogs, WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsIn the early morning hours yesterday we moved UMW Blogs from multi-db (which is a multi-database setup provided through WPMuDev Premium at a cost) to the ever so free SharDB multi-db setup, and I’m happy to say it worked. We’ve had some “unscheduled downtime” recently at UMW Blogs, and between the ever-growing traffic and a [...]
Well, it’s a proud time for the folks at UMW’s DTLT these days, we’ve been a tight group, and I think our personal dynamics have as much to do with our success as the fact that we all share these common goals: experiment, iterate and open up. And I have to say it is very [...]
UMW Blogs Traffic Stats—do they mean anything?
Published by November 21st, 2009 in UMW Blogs and Uncategorized. 8 CommentsI have been playing around with Google Analytics for UMW Blogs, and I took a snapshot of the traffic thus far this semester. Since August, 24th until today, UMW Blogs has had half a million page views by 211,000 visitors, 135,000 of which were unique. What’s more, we’ve had traffic from just about every [...]
Twitter on Campus
Published by November 6th, 2009 in UMW Blogs, WordPress, twitter and wordpress multi-user. 5 CommentsNorth Carolina State University has really made an impressive case for using Twitter more extensively on campus. A wide range of departments, organizations, and clubs at NCSU are using Twitter to get announcements, events, and relevant links out to the campus community, and they created a slick aggregation space that brings all of this together [...]
The Future of WPMu
Published by October 10th, 2009 in UMW Blogs, WordPress, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 7 CommentsThere has been a lot of discussion about the future of WPMu with the coming merge of WPMu and WP, and I understand there are concerns and issues all around. I’m not in the business of selling WPMu, so my concerns aren’t so much caught up with the preservation of the WPMu name, but they [...]
Then there is BuddyPress on UMW Blogs
Published by September 30th, 2009 in BuddyPress, UMW Blogs, WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 4 Comments…and oh what a beautiful thing it is. We made no special announcement, and we have kept the profile data to a bare minimum, and Martha just pulled the whole thing together with the awesome new theme (and who’s work shows no fear!). And I have to say I love the visual integration with BuddyPress, [...]
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