Tag Archives: WordPress

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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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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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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Building with Howard: Creating an Open Source Learning Environment Pt 3

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Reverend

This is part 3 of a series Howard Rheingold and I have been working on to demonstrate out the open how to create a learning environment using open source tools like WordPress, MediaWiki, and more. go here for all the … Continue reading →

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Building with Howard: Creating an Open Source Learning Environment Pt 2

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Reverend

This is part two of a series Howard Rheingold and I are working on wherein we’re openly building the framework for his Social Media Issues course using a variety of open source tools, plugins, themes, extensions, etc. This is really … Continue reading →

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