Published by Reverend May 5th, 2008
in plugins.
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 [...]
Well, I hate to quote our fearless leader out of turn, but unlike him I really was successful!
I had blogged earlier this semester about the potential possibilities available to UMW if we were to pursue mapping multiple domains to one WordPress Multi-User installation–one install, one upgrade, one point of failure–the last one is a quote [...]
Published by Reverend November 5th, 2007
in WordPress, YouTube and plugins.
I recently posted about the OneClick Installer plugin for WordPress and how easy it makes installing themes or plugins right from your browser. This plugin will be extremely useful for the folks in the Teaching & Learning Technology Fellowship we are currently conducting with six faculty here at UMW. They all have their own [...]
Published by Reverend October 15th, 2007
in WordPress.
This one’s a little late, and fortunately I didn’t have to do much work to bring the following resource to you. Keeping in line with a philosophy that Scott, D’Arcy, and Brian were promoting at Open Ed 2007, why create new content when much of it is already out there?
In the spirit of [...]
Published by Reverend October 5th, 2007
in widgets.
For anyone interested in the dynamic homepage of UMW Blogs, this post may be of some interest…
Part of what I started thinking about when working on UMW Blogs this Summer was how to capture some of the activity going on throughout the various blogs on the front page or the “motherblog” -to steal a saying [...]
Recently I have been corresponding with Mario A. Núñez Molina, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, who has been also working on integrating a WPMu blogging solution (RUM Edublogs) for the College of Arts and Sciences. He is also blogging the process, so it looks like I have yet [...]
Published by Reverend February 12th, 2007
in WordPress and wordpress multi-user.
In my previous post I failed to detail how I hacked WPMU in order to include BDP RSS & Optimal in a static page and embed YouTube videos in posts. Sorry for this oversight, below you will find the play-by-play (soon to be ported over to bavawiki).
Integrating BDP RSS & Optimal into a WP [...]
Published by Reverend January 5th, 2007
in WordPress.
The semester is coming, so here’s a little something to keep you going…
Including a Custom Header Image in K2:
To include a custom header in K2 you have two options. You can use the custom header tool in the tabs Presentation –> Custom Header or you can modify the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Modifying [...]
Published by Reverend September 23rd, 2006
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Update: be sure to check out bloghelper’s tutorial on the same subject which offers more in-depth details and a few more alternatives.
For many the WordPress application has become synonymous with blogging. And while I am certainly guilty of this conflation, I have recently been exploring how this program can be used as a [...]
Published by Reverend September 19th, 2006
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For a while now I have longingly watched Darcy Norman include Flickr sets in his blog posts. My urge to finally scratch this itch was further prompted by the fact that I recently bucked-up and became a proud Flickr Pro account holder. So last night I was thinking, “Hey, maybe I could find [...]
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