Category Archives: umwblogs

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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Twitter on Campus

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Reverend

North Carolina State University has really made an impressive case for using Twitter more extensively on campus.  A wide range of departments, organizations, and clubs at NCSU are using Twitter to get announcements, events, and relevant links out to the campus community, and they created a slick aggregation space that brings all of this together [...] Continue reading →

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Then there is BuddyPress on UMW Blogs

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Reverend

…and oh what a beautiful thing it is.  We made no special announcement, and we have kept the profile data to a bare minimum, and Martha just pulled the whole thing together with the awesome new theme (and who’s work shows no fear!). And I have to say I love the visual integration with BuddyPress, [...] Continue reading →

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Train wreck

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Reverend

For all of you out there who deeply question the “system” model, and the idea of hosting this stuff for an institution and making it work on a larger scale. Today I agree with you,  for we’ve had nothing but consistent downtime with UMW Blogs for the last four or five day, and while I [...] Continue reading →

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