The NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) is hosting an all day conference on April 6th that is entirely dedicated to WordPress in Higher Ed brilliantly titled “WordPress University.” The conference features a range of speakers dealing with everything from WordPress for libraries, college web sites, academic networks, and teaching and learning spaces. It’s a pretty [...]
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WordPress University
Published by March 13th, 2010 in WordCampEd, WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 8 CommentsDomain Mapping on Google Sites and UMW Blogs
Published by February 23rd, 2010 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsYesterday 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. [...]
BuddyPress Groups as Courses at the College of Wooster
Published by February 13th, 2010 in BuddyPress, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsI was looking at the posts on WPMu Development for Education earlier this morning, and I came across this post from The College of Wooster’s (or should I saw WOOT!ster’s) WPMu/BuddyPress install Voices. The post was about new themes added to their system, something I am always interested in, but it also gave me the [...]
Momentum for WP as LMS building
Published by February 1st, 2010 in WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 CommentsImage credit: bionicteaching’s “Edupunking your CMS”
Maybe it’s just cause I live in a particular bubble on the internet, but over the past six months or a year there has been what seems to me like some serious momentum towards thinking through WordPress (and/or WPMu) as a serious alternative to Learning Management Systems. And posts [...]
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 [...]
A WordPress Plugin App Store: Commodify and die!
Published by November 13th, 2009 in WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 27 CommentsWell, James Farmer and company are at it again, and the latest business venture is a WordPress Plugin App store a la iPhone apps. Another pay to play solution that is asserts that “the future of WordPress is premium plugins.” This development, like most of Farmer’s moves over the last year or so with wp.mu, [...]
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 [...]
Create your own LibGuides with WordPress
Published by November 6th, 2009 in WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 12 CommentsThe librarians here at UMW’s Stafford Campus have been experimenting with UMW Blogs to create their own version of LibGuides. Jami Bryan and Paul Boger came to me almost a year ago and showed me LibGuides (a subscription CMS for libraries using Web2.0 features) and its various features—you can see it in action at DePauw [...]
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