Category Archives: WordPress

Domain of One’s Own and WordPress Networks

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Reverend

I’ve had a pretty jam-packed semester, and now that it’s almost over I feel the need to capture at least some of it. We ran our third Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative with 23 participants across at least ten … Continue reading →

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Server Admin Tips: SQL Command for Mass Deletion of Moderated Comments in WordPress

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Reverend

Tim Owens and I hung out in a coffee shop for a couple of hours before our afternoon visit with the folks at Georgetown’s CNDLS about UMW Domains (more on that in my next post). We were doing some maintenance … Continue reading →

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Installing WordPress Multisite and Using FeedWordPress

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Reverend

Yesterday I sat down with UBC Philosophy faculty and ds106 rockstar Christina Hendricks to record a walk-through of how to install and manage WordPress Multisite using the script-installer Installatron. Additionally, we covered the following: How to manage your multisite account, with a … 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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Aggregating Comments into a Distributed Course Hub Recipe

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Reverend

We been thinking a lot about new methods of syndication at DTLT, but I have to admit we won’t be writing off RSS just yet. I do hope that one day we can synch comments between in psots seamlessly between … Continue reading →

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Importing and Archiving Tumblr Images on WordPress

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Reverend

I’ve been in web host archiving hell as of late. There is close to nine years of internet kipple on my hosting account and it is starting to fill me with a terrible sense of dread.  I’ve been deleting old … Continue reading →

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Tumblr2WordPress: Syndicating Your Tumblr to WordPress

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Reverend

I was experimenting with backing-up Tumblr to a WordPress blog and I found the following script that puts all your Tumblr posts into an RSS file than you can then import. Tumblr2WordPress: Export Your Tumblr to WordPress: This tool will … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs: It Won’t Stop Growing!

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Reverend

File this under arbitrary stats about UMW Blogs. The traffic on UMW Blogs has been really high out of the gate this semester, so I wanted to see what the first two weeks of traffic for the Spring semester looks … 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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A Few Notes on Updating UMW Blogs to WordPress 3.5

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Reverend

The upgrade process for WordPress has been so seamless the last three or four versions that I didn’t realize how spoiled I’ve been until I finally had an issue (and even that was quite simple to resolve).  Between automatic updates … Continue reading →

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