Category Archives: UMW Blogs

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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Why We Need to Integrate UMW Blogs with Active Directory

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Reverend

For years now we’ve prided ourselves on keeping UMW Blogs outside of the single-sign-on environment using the rationale that it provides just one more layer of separation from the fears surrounding privacy, FERPA, and security. Admittedly part of this stance … 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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Domain Mapping on Google Sites and UMW Blogs

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Reverend

Yesterday morning I went to visit a faculty member—Andy Smith in Historic Preservation—who has been using Google sites for a project she is working on called Fred Buildings. It is actually one of the nicer sites I’ve seen built with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Deleting old MySQL tables across blogs and databases in WPMu

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Reverend

OK, so this will probably be the final installment of my “pimp your WPMu databases” series Part one was moving from WPMuDEV’s Multi-DB package to SharDB; part two dealt with optimizing tables across a number of databases in MySQL, and the final installation will share some SQL code, once again thanks to Gowtham, [...] Continue reading →

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Changing the Oil on a Multi-Database WPMu Install

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Reverend

And to build on my last post about Moving from Multi-DB to SharDB on WPMu, here is a rundown on some of the work done to further optimize the multiple-databases for our WPMu at UMW Blogs.
First off, we have a plugin install called WordPress MU Sitewide Tag Pages that basically republishes every public post [...] Continue reading →

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Moving from Multi-DB to SharDB on WPMu