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WordPress as CMS

Posted on February 12, 2008 by

Ok, so in addition to the Moosecamp session “WordPress Anonymous” on Friday (depending on interest) and the “Don’t Call it a Blog, call it an Educational Publishing Platform” on Saturday, Lloyd Budd recently facebooked me asking if I would “lead” … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to WPMu 1.3.3

Posted on February 11, 2008 by

Given that the most recent upgrade for WordPress Multi-User is a critical one, I decided to do the right thing this morning. I figured it might be useful for others to know that my personal version of WPMu (which has … Continue reading →

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Prologue Theme Major Hit (or is it Punch-Out?)

Posted on February 3, 2008 by

A strange thing happened to me today. I was playing around with the new Prologue theme for WordPress that acts in many ways like Twitter. I had already tested it on WordPress.com here, but I wanted to see if the … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs Upgraded to WPMu 1.3

Posted on December 30, 2007 by

Well, it took long enough, but UMW Blogs is now running WordPress Multi-User version 1.3. We had to be a bit more careful with this upgrade because we are now supporting close to 800 blogs, so I actually took a … Continue reading →

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Eighteenth-Century Audio: A WordPress Social Site?

Posted on December 6, 2007 by

A site that I have been working on with professor Marie McAllister in the English, Linguistics, and Speech department here at UMW has me extremely excited these days. And I decided to blog it early so that my co-workers don’t … Continue reading →

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Gladly Eating Some Drupal Crow

Posted on November 24, 2007 by

Bill Fitzgerald has posted about a most impressive aggregator he put together with Drupal in about six hours. He documents the modules he used, and his creation slices and dices the content from various feeds in some really impressive ways. … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs & Middlesell Sittin’ In a Tree…

Posted on November 22, 2007 by

…R-S-S-I-N-G. I happened upon Middlesell early this morning (this site is an independent homepage for UMW students established by the inimitable Bobby Durette) only to discover that posts from around UMW Blogs are being fed into this space. How fascinating! … Continue reading →

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Simple Forums Plugin for WPMu

Posted on November 18, 2007 by

Once again, I must thank Dr. Mike for pointing me to the Simple Forums plugin at Yellow Swordfish. This is an amazing plugin that basically allows you to include a pretty powerful forum right into a blog on WPMu. You … Continue reading →

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Multiple Domains on WPMu: Mission Accomplished!

Posted on November 18, 2007 by

Well, I hate to quote our fearless leader out of turn, but unlike him I really was successful! I had blogged earlier this semester about the potential possibilities available to UMW if we were to pursue mapping multiple domains to … Continue reading →

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WPMu: Sitewide Tags, Search, and Archive

Posted on November 4, 2007 by

Sitewide tags was one of the elements of UMW Blogs I spent a bit of time working on this past Summer. In fact, one particular workaround allows you to have a sitewide tag cloud as well as sitewide searching of … Continue reading →

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