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 CommentsShannon Hauser put together a nice tutorial for creating a rotating header for your WordPress blog.
A Useful Plugin: ShowID for Post/Page/Category/Tag/Comment plugin
Published by February 6th, 2010 in Uncategorized, WordPress, plugins and wpmu. 6 CommentsI find myself in every recent version of WP (and WPMu) searching for the ID numbers for various pages, posts, categories, and/or tags on a number of occasions. I’m not sure when this feature got dropped from the core, but I do remember it was at one time part of the edit post/edit page [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Image credit: Ryancr’s “Sharing”
This semester has been a whirlwind, and while it has been great in many respects regarding the work we are doing at DTLT—more faculty and students than ever experimenting with UMW Blogs, some larger recognition, as well as a more expansive network of peers from a variety of institutions around the world—I [...]
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 [...]
FAQ for Universities Interested in WPMu
Published by October 14th, 2009 in WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 26 CommentsThis morning I had a fun conversation with David Grogan, Ilene Chen, Stephen McDonald, and Hannah Reeves from the academic technology group at Tufts University. They had some questions about running a large scale WPMu installation at Tufts University, and below are some of their questions followed by my working answers. Figured I’d republish it [...]
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