Category Archives: plugins

Embedding iFrames on WPMu

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Reverend

While text encoding is proving hellacious for me with WPMu, embedding iframes has never been easier (keep in mind there are risks involved, so think before you drink!). I found a pretty cool plugin for WPMu (there is also one … Continue reading →

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Flickr Photo Gallery

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Reverend

I have been meaning to write about just how easy it was to include the eight Flickr images I used for the In Jim’s Chair post. Tan Tan Noodles’ Flickr Photo Gallery plugin for WordPress (and WPMu) is often associated … Continue reading →

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WPMu as eduglu?

Posted on March 9, 2008 by Reverend

I find myself experiencing a kind of joyful obsolescence at the moment while reading the recent stream of posts from Andre Malan’s blog. I’m nothing short of blown away, and if you are at all interested in WPMu as an … Continue reading →

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Thank you sir, may I have another RSS feed!

Posted on March 8, 2008 by Reverend

I think the sir in this title should really be Andre Malan who recently created the Add to BDP RSS, his first plugin for WordPress. It provides functionality I have dreamed of for over a year now. In short, it … Continue reading →

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Porting bavatuesdays to a mapped domain on WPMu

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Reverend

I have spent the last few days porting a stand alone WordPress blog with over 800 blog posts, 75 videos, countless images, and PHP executed in several posts (not to mention the over 35 plugins) to a mapped domain on … Continue reading →

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Some more cool plugins for WordPress

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Reverend

I have gotten wind of a couple of cool plugins for WordPress that might be worthy of sharing. WP AJax Edit Comments The first I found by way of Alex King’s del.icio.us link to this post, which features five must … Continue reading →

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Proud Spammer of Open University Courses

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Reverend

There has been a bit of excitement about the possibilities for pushing the uses of RSS towards a mythical eduglu as of late. Brian posted about it here and got some great feedback, soon after D’Arcy Norman and Bill Fitzgerald … Continue reading →

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WordPress as CMS

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Reverend

Ok, so in addition to the Moosecamp session “WordPress Anonymous” on Friday (depending on interest) and the “Don’t Call it a Blog, call it an Educational Publishing Platform” on Saturday, Lloyd Budd recently facebooked me asking if I would “lead” … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to WPMu 1.3.3

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Reverend

Given that the most recent upgrade for WordPress Multi-User is a critical one, I decided to do the right thing this morning. I figured it might be useful for others to know that my personal version of WPMu (which has … Continue reading →

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Prologue Theme Major Hit (or is it Punch-Out?)

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Reverend

A strange thing happened to me today. I was playing around with the new Prologue theme for WordPress that acts in many ways like Twitter. I had already tested it on WordPress.com here, but I wanted to see if the … Continue reading →

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