Category Archives: plugins

Building a Small Academic Org Site with WordPress

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Reverend

A long while ago I worked with UMW History professor Allyson Poska to migrate the Society of the Study of Early Modern Women‘s  (SSEMW) website to WordPress. It was fairly straight forward given it was a small academic organization without too many pages … Continue reading →

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Wiki Embed: Telling the True Crime Story

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Reverend

In my last post I talked about how excited I am that students are building a resource using the true crime wiki as part of the course Paul Bond and I are teaching this semester. I wanted to use this … Continue reading →

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When Plugins Go Rogue

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Reverend

I logged into UMW Blogs yesterday only to find this garrish header advertisement in my dashboard panel: What the hell is this? Advertisement? On UMW Blogs! THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! And so forth. I posted on Twitter to get see … Continue reading →

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Cookies for Comments: another Spam Solution for UMW Blogs

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Reverend

Given I still haven’t got the error for TypePad AntiSpam fixed on UMW Blogs, but after a recommendation from the WordPress forum legend @andre_r I installed the spam fighting plugin Cookies for Comments, and so far I am blown away … Continue reading →

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YouTube Favorites, and some thoughts about aggregation

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Reverend

It’s been a long while since I played with WordPress plugins on the bava. But tonight I was thinking that if CogDog is right, and just about everything we share through various networks can be thought of as blogging, than … Continue reading →

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Testing Wiki Append plugin

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Reverend

I have previously had problems getting the WIki Append plugin to work on this blog, but I think that is no longer the case. Am I right? If it works, the following article is a multi-media project students in Mara … Continue reading →

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Playing with WPTouch

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Reverend

So, I am a little late to the mobile revolution (and frankly I still think it’s ridiculously over-hyped for education), but I finally got an iPod Touch through work in order to test out the interface of WordPress on a … Continue reading →

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A Useful Plugin: ShowID for Post/Page/Category/Tag/Comment plugin

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Reverend

I 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 … Continue reading →

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An Obituary for a Plugin: Saying goodbye to an old friend

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Reverend

Update (2/25/10): Actually BDPRSS still works and we are still using it on UMW Blogs. My bad. It’s kind of funny, but I’m starting to realize that I have been so embedded within the UMW Blogs experience for the last … Continue reading →

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NextGen Gallery

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Reverend

[singlepic id=3 w=200  mode=web20 float=right]I have been envying Lafayette College’s NextGen Gallery goodness in their WPMu Pilot, and after finally setting aside some time I installed the plugin and played with it (you can find it  here).  It worked pretty … Continue reading →

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