Tag Archives: WordPress

A WordPress Plugin App Store: Commodify and die!

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Reverend

Well, James Farmer and company are at it again, and the latest business venture is a WordPress Plugin App store a la iPhone apps. Another pay to play solution that is asserts that “the future of WordPress is premium plugins.” … Continue reading →

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Create your own LibGuides with WordPress

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Reverend

The librarians here at UMW’s Stafford Campus have been experimenting with UMW Blogs to create their own version of LibGuides. Jami Bryan and Paul Boger came to me almost a year ago and showed me LibGuides (a subscription CMS for … Continue reading →

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A Bava Bumrush of WordCamp NYC

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Reverend

I’m pretty excited for the upcoming WordCamp in NYC, not only is it a wonderful excuse to go back home, but it is also shaping up to be one of the biggest WordPress shindigs ever. Moreover, it’s being hosted at … Continue reading →

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WPMu Development for Education

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Reverend

Hats off to Andre Malan for getting the dev.wpmued aggregation site together in no time at all—did it take him a single night of kicking ass while Brian Lamb was fast asleep? The idea behind the site, which you can … Continue reading →

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An Obituary for a Plugin: Saying goodbye to an old friend

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Reverend

Update (2/25/10): Actually BDPRSS still works and we are still using it on UMW Blogs. My bad. It’s kind of funny, but I’m starting to realize that I have been so embedded within the UMW Blogs experience for the last … Continue reading →

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WPMu as OCW Platform….a solution?

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Reverend

David Wiley just blogged about using WPMu as an OCW solution, and one of the issues he is running into is directory structure. What he wants is each department to have its own parent blog, and then child blogs within … Continue reading →

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Archiving ain’t easy: bringing old one-off WP sites into WPMu

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Reverend

Every Summer we try and both update and archive some of the old projects we have on the various Bluehost accounts we have done over the last 3 or 4 years. It is a painstaking process, and when you have … Continue reading →

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I Bleed CUNY Blood

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Reverend

Well, this past Friday was a real blast for me on many levels. First, I returned CUNY which was my old stomping ground for over 10 years, a place where I met some amazing people (many of whom are still … Continue reading →

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Approximating the Syndication Bus with WordPress.com

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Reverend

Michael Willits (do you have a blog I can link to yet, and why aren’t you blogging this?) sent me an email last week about some of the very cool work Danielle Stern is doing with her Gender Communication courses … Continue reading →

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Young Gun for Hire: A DTLT Graduate

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Reverend

In less than a week’s time Serena Epstein will be graduating from UMW, and will therefore no longer be working for the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies. And even though we fight like cats and dogs, it pains me … Continue reading →

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