Category Archives: widgets

FeedWordPress Widget: If you blog it, it is no dream

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Reverend

Less than a week after blogging my wish for a widget that would allow people to add links to their sites (no matter where they are hosted, they just need a valid feed), which in turn would be automatically entered … Continue reading →

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FeedWordPress: A Widget Wish

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Reverend

The whole syndication-oriented architecture (feed-frenzied learning) many have been playing with using WordPress Multi-User has been moving along pretty well for us at UMW. With the help of just a couple of plugins we have been able to generate a … Continue reading →

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Tale of the FeedWordPress Tape

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Reverend

Image courtesy of Looking for Fish tacos at ELI 2006, aka CogDog. Well, I have finally gotten a free minute to get this all down, and get it down I will in hopes that I can drum up some help … Continue reading →

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WPMu Sitewide Comment Tracking

Posted on August 24, 2008 by Reverend

I have been mentioning DSader a lot lately on this blog, and that’s mainly because I have been deep into WordPress Multi-User mode for a couple of weeks now. And between the upgrade to 2.6 and the general overhaul of … Continue reading →

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New digs for UMW Blogs, or the anatomy of a redesign

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Reverend

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 … Continue reading →

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A List of Plugins Used on the Bava

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Reverend

I have been meaning to use David Benini’s Plugins List plugin (I love plugins about plugins–the meta-plugin!) which simply allows you to include a list of all the plugins you are using on your site. Simple, yet potentially very useful … Continue reading →

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Self-Service Feed Aggregation with WPMu

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Reverend

This post will detail how to create an aggregator site wherein people can simply add their feeds to a site and have their content automatically re-published. This example is specifically for WordPress and/or WordPress Multi-User. It depends upon three plugins, … 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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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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