Author Archives: Reverend

A Few Notes on Updating UMW Blogs to WordPress 3.5

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Reverend

The upgrade process for WordPress has been so seamless the last three or four versions that I didn’t realize how spoiled I’ve been until I finally had an issue (and even that was quite simple to resolve). Between automatic updates … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Late to the Party: Migrating an outdated WPMu to WordPress Multisite

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Reverend

The migration process from WPMu (roughly version 2.9.2) to WordPress Multisite (version 3.4.1) has been well documented already. Two sources I found useful for a straightforward tutorial for doing the migration—which I imagine everyone who is anyone has already done … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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From the Archive: ELS Blogs

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Reverend

This time 5 years ago we were closing down ELS Blogs, UMW’s first multi-user WordPress experiment (well actually the second if you count Lyceum), to make way for the campus-wide blogging platform that would be known as UMW Blogs. Five … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs, a.k.a. Old Faithful

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Reverend

Me and UMW Blogs are going on 5 years this Summer, she’s is the baddest of the bad and meanest and leanest of the mean and lean. She’s a veritable titan of her kind, she’s an educational publishing platform of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Traffic on UMW Blogs and a few notes

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Reverend

Yesterday was the last day of the Fall semester so I took a quick screenshot of traffic on UMW Blogs in Google Analytics over the last four months, which looks like this:
Which made me think, how does this compare to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Back to school at UMW (Blogs)

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Reverend

We just finished our first week at UMW—-it was an uncharacteristically late start for us. We are usually in week two or three by now, but I am not complaining because the extra spell before game time was nice. That … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 7, 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 → 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 hang … Continue reading → 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 Post page … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Upgrading from WPMu to WP 3.0: Keep your config!