Category Archives: WordPress

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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WordPress Italian Style

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Reverend

As Antonella and I were walking into Trento’s train station this afternoon reluctantly preparing to say our goodbyes for the next few days, she pointed out that they sell a WordPress magazine at the news stand. I was like, “What?” And she … Continue reading →

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Installing and Customizing a Scalable WordPress Multisite with Linode’s StackScripts

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Reverend

I’ve been on a server admin crash course over the last 8 months or so, and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying myself. I have been fortunate to have the most patient and generous teacher I’ve ever studied under: the great Tim Owens. I truly … Continue reading →

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Archiving with Amber

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Reverend

I was reading John Johnston’s blog this morning (gotta keep up with my European peeps) and his post about fighting linkrot hit home. Every morning I wake up to an email letting me know a few more links on the bava … Continue reading →

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What has WordPress Ever Done for Us?

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Reverend

Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? PFJ Member: Brought peace? Reg: Oh, peace? SHUT UP! While WordPress … Continue reading →

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XML-RPC Blocking using htaccess

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Reverend

Blog posts about WordPress on the bava in conversation with the great D’Arcy Norman? Party like it’s 2008! @jimgroom I’d love to see how you fixed the xmlrpc thing. blog post on htaccess etc…? — D’Arcy Norman (@dlnorman) July 30, … Continue reading →

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Abstractions: Running WordPress Multi-Site using AWS, Docker, and BTSync

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Reverend

Heads up: this is not a technical run through, but more of a conceptual overview. Apologies if you came here looking for a how-to. Hopefully we will have just that in the next few months. But enough about the past, … Continue reading →

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List Remote Comments

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Reverend

I already blogged about Mark Luetke‘s awesome Motherblogs Made Easy plugin, and I promised there was more. Well, here’s more. Martha Burtis already experimented with Mark’s List Remote Comments plugin on the aggregator blog she is working on for Freshman Seminar she … Continue reading →

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Syndication Made Easy for WordPress MultiSite

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Reverend

Nostromo’s boot sequence of “Mother” computer in Alien Tim Owens and I went down to Virginia Commonwealth University’s ALT Lab to catch up with Tom Woodward, Jon Becker, and a recent, most impressive addition Mark Luetke. They have been doing some great … Continue reading →

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Teaching with WordPress

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Reverend

I’m compelled by the Teaching with WordPress open course the folks at UBC are running over the next few weeks. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, something I have spent countless hours talking about on this … Continue reading →

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