Tag Archives: wpmu

Adding TinyMCE to WordPress User Profile Pages

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Reverend

The framework built in WordPress for the literary journal Shenandoah is all but done. I will be blogging the cocneptual approach to the framework and how we did it soon, but first I have to entice the genius Martha Burtis … 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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TypePad AntiSpam on UMW Blogs

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Reverend

Image credit: Dok1’s “Spam” After about 3 years with Akismet on UMW Blogs we switched over to TypePad Antispam so that UMW would no longer be breaking the new licensing for Akismet—under which we would be paying $750 a month … 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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Editing aliases.conf (a.k.a. mapping new domains)

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Reverend

Thanks to the great Zach Davis of Cast Iron Coding fame—dear friend, code guru, and the guy who invented the internet for me—I have a step-by-step guide for editing the aliases.conf file in order to enable domains pointed at UMW … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs Upgraded to WP 3.0 (a play-by-play)

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Reverend

I’m glad (and relieved) to finally say UMW Blogs has been upgraded to the WP 3.0 merged core files without a hitch. Whew! This was a burner for me, a bit more fear and trembling going into this one than … Continue reading →

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Into the mud, Scum Web! Or, picking through the ruins that was WPMu

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Reverend

Image credit: Thomas Hawk’s No Dark Sarcasm in the classroom I’m not sure when I got derailed from the Summer of Love, it was all going so well. And then the bastards, scum bags, and profit-driven web denizens seemed to … Continue reading →

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Weird Visual Editor Issue on WP 3.0, RC 1

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Reverend

Having an odd issue on bavatuesdays that I can’t reproduce on any other sites in my install (namely jimgroom.net. wpmued.org, etc.). I can’t see the buttons in the visual editor, by default my visual editor icons in the Add New … Continue reading →

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Upgrading from WPMu to WP 3.0: Keep your config!

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Reverend

I just updated to the latest version of WordPress 3.0 (release candidate 1) and one of the things I realized while upgrading my own sites is that you should really keep your WPMu wp-config.php file. I figured that I would … 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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