Monthly Archives: November 2008

Cloning the UMW Blogs Empire

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Reverend

This Thursday I’ll be heading down to Longwood University to do a workshop on Web 2.0, blogging, and the like. Liz Kocevar-Weidinger of the Greenwood library at Longwood saw a few of us from UMW present last year on the work we’ve doing, and she invited us down. I caught up with her at the [...] Continue reading →

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FeedWordPress Widget: If you blog it, it is no dream

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Reverend

Less than a week after blogging my wish for a widget that would allow people to add links to their sites (no matter where they are hosted, they just need a valid feed), which in turn would be automatically entered into FeedWordPress and make the population of an aggregation site simple…it has arrived in the [...] Continue reading →

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FeedWordPress: A Widget Wish

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Reverend

The whole syndication-oriented architecture (feed-frenzied learning) many have been playing with using WordPress Multi-User has been moving along pretty well for us at UMW. With the help of just a couple of plugins we have been able to generate a single feed for tags and/or categories throughout UMW Blogs (using the Sitewide Tags Pages plugin [...] Continue reading →

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Installing WPMu on cheap, external webhosting

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Reverend

James farmer has posted a great tutorial over at WPMu.org that takes you through the steps of setting up a WordPress Multi-User installation on a cheap, external webhosting service. He focuses on one webhosting service in particular for the demonstration, but most use CPanel and his instructions work pretty much across the board. That [...] Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs loves Akismet

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Reverend

After reading this post by D’Arcy about how easy and free it is to get Akismet up and running for WordPress Multi-User, I finally decided to take the plunge and replace the developmentally languishing Spam Karma 2 with Akismet–I’ll miss you SK2! The setup was easy, and putting the link in the footer (which guarantees [...] Continue reading →

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