Category Archives: WordPress

Editing aliases.conf (a.k.a. mapping new domains)

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Reverend

Thanks to the great Zach Davis of Cast Iron Coding fame—dear friend, code guru, and the guy who invented the internet for me—I have a step-by-step guide for editing the aliases.conf file in order to enable domains pointed at UMW … Continue reading →

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Lafayette College on WordPress

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Reverend

Ken Knewquist just announced that the Lafayette College redesigned website recently launched as a WordPress multi-site. And I have to say, that did it exactly right. It was created and designed by Viget Labs, which has a kinda markety innocuous … Continue reading →

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Best tutorial for adding Custom Menus to WP Themes

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Reverend

I’ve been slowly trying to update as many themes as possible in UMW Blogs for the custom menus feature, and a Google search can be hit or miss in terms of howtos. In my experience thus far this tutorial is … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs Upgraded to WP 3.0 (a play-by-play)

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Reverend

I’m glad (and relieved) to finally say UMW Blogs has been upgraded to the WP 3.0 merged core files without a hitch. Whew! This was a burner for me, a bit more fear and trembling going into this one than … Continue reading →

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Get a job hippie! Part Duex: WordPress Developer Wanted

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Reverend

Remember this? Image credit: Hippies de Valdivia (Chile) by leo.prie.to After the last time I did a post like this I ended up regretting it, that position was never filled, and I had to ultimately eat some blog crow—and I … Continue reading →

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Into the mud, Scum Web! Or, picking through the ruins that was WPMu

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Reverend

Image credit: Thomas Hawk’s No Dark Sarcasm in the classroom I’m not sure when I got derailed from the Summer of Love, it was all going so well. And then the bastards, scum bags, and profit-driven web denizens seemed to … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0, you had me at Custom Menus

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Reverend

So while playing around with WordPress 3.0, beta 2 tonight, I tried out the new Custom Menu feature within the Appearance section, and I have to say I’ve been waiting a long time for this kind  of functionality. Finally you … 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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WordPress University

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Reverend

The NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) is hosting an all day conference on April 6th that is entirely dedicated to WordPress in Higher Ed brilliantly titled “WordPress University.” The conference features a range of speakers dealing with everything from WordPress … Continue reading →

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Rotating Header in WordPress

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Reverend

Shannon Hauser put together a nice tutorial for creating a rotating header for your WordPress blog.

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