VCU: The Long Goodbye (AFAM and ANTH)

Here’s another stuff-I-did-in-the-past post. It may be doing this does a couple things for me. Whenever I’ve entered a new job I have felt like a moron who knows nothing desperately trying to show I know something and am useful without coming off as desperate.1 Trying to make new friends while learning new acronyms and […]

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Strip Google Span Tags When you Cut/Paste into the WordPress Editor

You may note that when you cut/paste from Google Docs into the WordPress editor you get a bunch of span tag and inline CSS garbage. It’s awful . . . so you could paste into the plain text editor . . . but you may also find that you want to keep a bunch of […]

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List Posts/Pages in WordPress Multisite Admin Sites View

Mulsite admin sites panel showing an extra column indicating the number of published posts and pages on the sites.

This is a little something that’ll help you see activity across a multisite. It adds a column to the admin view that shows the posts/pages count for each site. I found this plugin that got me the foundation for adding the column and then was able to just use the switch_blog function to get me […]

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H5P Plugin in WordPress Giving You Crazy Code on Download Attempt?

Crazy looking code that's generated when trying to download the h5p file.

We ran into this yesterday and it led to all kinds of other nonsense that wasn’t the issue. What was happening was that when you tried to Reuse>Download an existing H5P file it wouldn’t download it but would print the nonsense that is in the image above. We ended up going down all kinds of […]

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Recent Work – End of June Edition

Early Engineers website screenshot.

Greetings dear reader. I write to you again out of the desperate hope that writing this cements things I’ve learned better in my own head and maybe gives a person out there something that saves them some time or suffering or maybe just provides a kernel of an idea that they can improve on. That’s […]

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Recent Work – Start of June Edition

View of the faculty page using the shortcode.

My date titles continue to get blurrier. The range of stuff covered gets wider. VCU is moving any course with over 50 students to the online format. We’re supporting that move in a variety of ways. Our little R&D group is trying to answer the non-standard problems, questions, media desires. To some degree we are […]

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