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The Technology of Smarthistory
(A long and technical post follows. If you don’t care to read it, if you’re of the TL;DR school, then go, right now, to Smarthistory.org and take a look at what kind of a beautiful OER can be made with WordPress.) As anyone who knows me knows, I’m a big supporter (and helper, I guess) […]
video player buttons disappearing in wordpress in all browsers
This one falls into the “reminding myself how to do the workaround” category, but maybe it will be helpful to someone else, too. The WordPress media player has some nice buttons for play, volume, full-screen, and so on. But no matter what I did, I could not see those buttons in any browser. They were […]
Protecting Uploaded Files in WordPress
After a long day of struggling with various .htaccess solutions (none of which I could get to work at all in WordPress multisite), I had the wonderful idea to ask for help from the wp-edu listserv and within minutes, Daniel Bachhuber responded with a perfect solution. But maybe I should have started with the problem. (Let’s […]
A Hackable Hole in BuddyPress
Mainly documenting this just so I will have it somewhere I can find it easily, but maybe it will help others, too. On the Macaulay Eportfolio system we do not restrict account creation by email domain (since we want our students to use whatever email address they want). Instead we use a shared codeword which […]
More of the Greatness of the WordPress Community
I had a great time at this year’s WordCamp NYC, hanging out with the other CUNY WordPress folks, and talking WordPress in education to a (larger than expected) and very interested crowd. We tried to pitch for broad appeal, and I think we hit it, and not have too much inside baseball (not too much) […]
For the Better Review of Proposals of All Kinds
This is a fairly technical solution to a fairly limited use-challenge. But it’s not a scenario that is completely unheard of. It’s something that we’ve faced here on multiple occasions, so I decided to finally take a swing at a somewhat user-friendly and somewhat elegant solution. Here’s the challenge. There are lots of instances–applications for […]
Including Comments on WordPress Author Pages
This is a little (hell, VERY) technical–but it might be useful to some, and it seems like my most technical posts get the most attention somehow! 🙂 When running a WordPress site with multiple authors (a class site is a perfect example), sometimes you want to see all the posts by one author gathered together. […]
Macaulay Eportfolio Documentation
I’ve been getting some inquiries, and it’s been a while since I last described our eportfolio setup, so I thought I might put it all in a post instead of copying and pasting into various emails. Server We host our eportfolios on an external server. It’s a dedicated server, all ours–but it’s the same server […]
WordCamp NYC 2010
It’s that time of year again, and I’m proud to be joining my fellow WordPressHeads at Baruch this weekend!
Another Alkivia Chameleon Problem fixed
Some might say it’s not entirely worth it, but Alkivia Chameleon is a very nice and very popular theme, so I wanted it to work! Unfortunately (as others have complained), since the latest update (was it the WordPress update? or the Chameleon update? I’m not sure), sites using this theme no longer have any posts […]
