Tag Archives: plugins

Student Coded Projects for DTLT

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Reverend

This semester students in Karen Anewalt’s Software Engineering course (CPSC 430) will be working with DTLT to create a series of WordPress plugins/themes for UMW Blogs and Domain of One’s Own. This is pretty awesome because we could always use … 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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Cookies for Comments: another Spam Solution for UMW Blogs

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Reverend

Given I still haven’t got the error for TypePad AntiSpam fixed on UMW Blogs, but after a recommendation from the WordPress forum legend @andre_r I installed the spam fighting plugin Cookies for Comments, and so far I am blown away … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs Upgraded to WordPress 3.2.1

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Reverend

Image credit: darek.zon’s “Blue Sky” Yesterday UMW Blogs was upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (3.2.1), and it was surprisingly seamless. Why surprising? Well, we hadn’t updated since December 2010 and we had more that 69 plugins and themes … Continue reading →

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YouTube Favorites, and some thoughts about aggregation

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Reverend

It’s been a long while since I played with WordPress plugins on the bava. But tonight I was thinking that if CogDog is right, and just about everything we share through various networks can be thought of as blogging, than … Continue reading →

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Testing Wiki Append plugin

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Reverend

I have previously had problems getting the WIki Append plugin to work on this blog, but I think that is no longer the case. Am I right? If it works, the following article is a multi-media project students in Mara … Continue reading →

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Some Plugin Bugs in WP 3.0 on UMW Blogs

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Reverend

Sitewide Comment Tracking Revisited: I’ve had to deactivate a personal favorite plugin “Sitewide Comment Tracking Revisited” (my-comments.php) by dsader. A plugin that allowed you to track all your comments across the install from the comments field. Deleted it from the … 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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A Useful Plugin: ShowID for Post/Page/Category/Tag/Comment plugin

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Reverend

I find myself in every recent version of WP (and WPMu) searching for the ID numbers for various pages, posts, categories, and/or tags on a number of occasions. I’m not sure when this feature got dropped from the core, but … Continue reading →

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