A Two Dog Theme Demo
Most of the time it’s intentional, but I do not always plan to use a dog metaphor. It just happens. In setting up the trubox multisite as a place for You Show participants to start their blogs, I came up […]
Wordpress
Web development in Wordpress including tips and technical explanations.
On Multisiting
These are some notes from my experience here at TRU running two different WordPress sites that are enabled as multisite, or more properly, networks of sites. Among the reasons for doing this include wanting to have a platform to offer […]
You Show Daily, The Grid View
Just noting some small details to add to the You Show Daily site, where we are trying a series of daily creative challenges related to the purposes of the open seminar. Now a nice grid showing all of the responses […]
Using TRU Writer for a Portfolio for Published Work
In a bit of a self test, I am using the TRU Writer SPLOT tool to build a collection of papers I have published: This is a little different from the other versions we have set up (in addition to […]
Inside the RSS Magic Box
Wow, I thought I had written this up somewhere, but because Ken asked, and he is doing cool stuff with his Connected Course… Can anyone share the code for the Magic Box #CCourses http://t.co/lv3QFzS45M @cogdog @mburtis @timmmmyboy ? — Ken […]
One Click Featuring in WordPress Sites
In consulting You Show participants on their site organization, I am trying to help them see there are more opportunities for the front page than the long river of reverse chronological ordered posts. Many themes (like the Virtue Theme on […]
I Hear There is a Noisy SPLOT in Town…
In prep for Tuesday’s You Show workshop session on audio I worked feverishly about 4 hours Monday night and 3 hours Tuesday morning to create the newest SPLOT tool, the Sound Pool. This is a place to share audio clips, […]
Highs and Lows of Technical Problem Solving
There is little like the satisfaction, no that is to tame a word, the exhilaration of solving a problem that you had never addressed before, or thought you could not figure out. That is no great revelation. In the realm […]
Shaping the Blogfolio
Although I have never worked with clay, I am reaching for the pottery metaphor here. This site, this series of reflections, these bits which may assemble as a portfolio, I work continuously, shaping, reshaping, letting it slump to the floor, […]
Randomizing the SPLOT
The theme I set up for the SPLOT site is a landing page style one called Onsie (free one page responsive theme from Graph Paper Press). There is not much to it, a large welcome page, an image gallery for […]
On Theme Shopping
“What’s the best theme for my WordPress site?” Is there a equivalent to the “Best Camera is the one in your hand” assertion? Probably not. In our work on The You Show open seminar and providing sites for TRU staff […]
Reversing Course Again, Doing it Dudley Right
In a post on my approach to building The Daily site am not thinking I was wrong about being wrong… does that make me right? And in a process of working on projects, does, does being right even matter? To […]