UMW Blogs has got a brand new bag, with no small assistance from Andy “EDU” Rush nation who turned me on to the beautiful theme PrimePress (Andy’s the go to theme guy without question), along with Serena Epstein an Jerry Slezak who provided the gorgeous header images featuring the UMW campus. The redesign took a [...]
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This can be filed under obscure hacks. For those of you out there who are using the MistyLook theme for MediaWiki and haven’t been able to get the editing toolbar to show up in the later versions of MediaWiki, then this hack is for you.
I found this fix thanks to Hal’s comment on Jason Pearce’s [...]
The Era of a One-Click WordPress
Published by November 1st, 2007 in WordPress and plugins. 4 CommentsWe have been talking for a while about how easy the installation of WordPress (and many other apps) is made by the one-click magic of script installers like Fantastico. However, this didn’t solve the problem of uploading themes and plugins to your server (via FTP or CPanel) to augment its functionality. That’s why, if you [...]
I responded to a comment by Sue Mayberry -who was asking for more details about creating a bliki (a WordPress MediaWiki mashup)- offering a kind of quick overview of some of the steps with links to the specific posts and details here.
While writing the response to Sue, I began thinking about another possibility with [...]
That’s right, the Wordpress MediaWiki mashup is gaining some momentum. Just check out the Blogfolio del Dr. Mario NúñezMario, a self-proclaimed “Blogfesor” at the Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez in beautiful Puerto Rico. I love it!!! The other thing I love is that I got most of the credit when Andy Rush did most [...]
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a visual text editor for MediaWiki!
Published by July 18th, 2007
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Update: Not exactly a full-featured visual text editor
Just found this little hack for MediaWiki that adds a more comprehensive visual text editor to the coolest wiki application going. How long have we been waiting for this? What’s more is that the features are pretty comprehensive. All you wiki purists be damned, [...]
A cry for help! Can we build a bliki plugin to integrate WordPress and MediaWiki?
Published by June 8th, 2007 in WordPress. 12 CommentsOver a month ago we started playing with the idea of bringing MediaWiki pages into WordPress post. The logic being you can combine the presentation possibilities and RSS feed generation of WordPress with the ease of formatting, editing and collaborative sharing of MediaWiki. The term Bliki is one of the ways folks have [...]
MediaWiki/WordPress User Integration: One step closer to a bling bling bliki!
Published by June 1st, 2007 in WordPress. 2 CommentsUpdate: I tested this extension with WPMU to no avail. Looks like it works only with single WP installs 2.1 or higher with MediaWiki installs that are PHP 4 based (I got it to work with version 1.6.8).
Alan Levine off-handedly tweeted and del.icio.us‘d a little extension for MediaWiki that he found @ Hery-Dev). What [...]
Tales from the Teaching Crypt: Discipline and Punish
Published by May 24th, 2007 in WordPress. 10 CommentsOK, so last night’s class was so inspiring (a.k.a. sick) that I thought I would blog about it right quick. I have been leaving traces of some of the resources I have been finding on YouTube, and alluding to some ideas about categories, tagging, and WordPress -but last night demonstrated a couple of amazing [...]
Open, Connected, and Social
Published by April 21st, 2007 in WordPress and wordpress multi-user. 1 CommentD’Arcy Norman has already announced the (MAC) Learning Environments presentation that will take place this Wednesday, April 25, 1:00pm EST (10:00am Pacific, 11:00am Mountain, etc…). D’Arcy, Brian Lamb, and Alan Levine will be re-visiting some of the generative ideas from their 2004 presentation “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” (you can see the archived wiki here) [...]
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