So….so so so so so so, it’s time for a little walk down WPMu history lane. Last year at this time I was desperately scrambling for a way to have sitewide tags for UMW Blogs. I found the solution in Dr. Mike’s hack shared on the WordPress forums here, but it was kind of a [...]
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WPMu Sitewide Tags, Feeds, & Archives! Oh, My!
Published July 23rd, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, plugins, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsI have upgraded bavatuesdays (and six other domains I tend on one WPMu install) to the beta release of WPMu 2.6 in anticipation of upgrading UMW Blogs come August 1st. In fact, the next few weeks are going to be an all out WPMu push. I will be working on updating all our [...]
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Reading Capital, Part 3: Forums vs. Discourse
Published July 11th, 2008 in Reading Capital and prologue. 0 CommentsWorld Forum 1 image courtesy of Dunechaser.
This part of the Reading Capital discussion framework looks at the Reading Capital Forums (powered by bbPress) and a feature called Discourse which is the theme Prologue for WordPress blogs that offers a similar functionality as Twitter without the 140 character limitation. Despite what the title of this [...]
Tags for this article: discourse , discussion , feeds , forums , prologue , Reading Capital , rss , twitter , wpmu , wpmued
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Reading Capital, Part 2: Blogs, Feeds, and Aggregation
Published July 10th, 2008 in Reading Capital. 1 CommentMarx and Engels lego photo used courtesy of Dunechaser
So I’m finally returning to creating a discussion framework for the Reading Capital site. I will detail my thinking for the design of the site below (and in at least two subsequent posts), and I invite any and all recommendations and criticisms. It’s a model that is [...]
Tags for this article: aggregation , blogging , discussion , Reading Capital , rss , site design , wpmu , wpmued
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All Kinds of Domain Mapping with WPMu
Published June 11th, 2008 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 2 CommentsSo the last two days have been a lot of fun, I have been mapping all the domains I currently have to one WordPress Multi-User installation, and I’m glad to say it has worked like a charm (you can find my previous discussions of the process here and here). I had problems at first [...]
Tags for this article: domains , hacks , mapped domains , wordpress multi-user , wpmu , wpmued
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The Design of Openness
Published June 7th, 2008 in Uncategorized, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 2 CommentsPhoto thanks to Bern@t’s Flickr stream.
Cole Camplese recently had a provocative post about open design that has me thinking about a few things that might frame some of the ideas that I think are key to imagining a loosely joined, open, and mashable community for teaching and learning.
I am thinking more about how openness should [...]
Tags for this article: aesthetics , apiary , beehives , design , drupal , openness , wordpress multi-user , wpmu , wpmued
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Today I got to thinking about something while talking about building a community site: where is my community right now? Well, Twitter, and at this very moment I can see all kinds of cool things happening. I’m currently following two of my favorite people, Shannon Hauser and Brian Lamb, exchange ideas about music. [...]
Tags for this article: course sites , design , instructional technology , plugins , prologue , rss , themes , twitter , wordpress mutli-user , wpmu , wpmued
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Finally, Course Aggregation Made Easy
Published May 16th, 2008 in insructional technology, plugins, tags, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 Commentsphoto credit: Tambako the Jaguar
Well, it took us over a year, and with several iterations along the way, but I think UMW Blogs will now be able to provide dead simple aggregation of posts from numerous, distributed blogs with very little work, but a little bit of money for the plugin extension ($50 to [...]
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