WordPress Plugins & Random Thoughts

https://twitter.com/veletsianos/status/773990513443676160 Sparked by a tweet, this is reposted from a conversation here (thanks to Alan) but I figured that much writing ought to also be a blog post. flickr photo shared by Internet Archive Book Images with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) And a pre-warning, I may have overdone this . . . . As […]

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HTTPS Insecure Content Fixer Plugin

If you’ve got a site running on HTTPS and you try to throw in some HTTP content, the browser gets nervous. If you’ve recently made a shift to HTTPS you might notice content that was successfully embedded disappearing. If you look in the browser (right click>inspect element in Chrome), you’ll see an error like the […]

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Cleansing the Dashboard

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Pre-Intervention Post-Intervention I’ve often had requests to make the admin dashboard in WordPress simpler for students (although it’s just as likely applicable to faculty or humans in general). The example in the Juxtapose box above (slide it!)1 The result above is an example based on one such request. The goal was to take the initial […]

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Custom Fitted WordPress

flickr photo shared by Internet Archive Book Images with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) I’ve been doing a whole lot of WordPress customization lately for really widely varying purposes/people. It has been a lot of fun and it’s an option that I’m not sure has been conveyed well to our faculty. Many times, faculty are […]

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