Origin Story The request came in on Monday for a WordPress theme that looked like the Canvas LMS. That’s not a very dramatic origin but it’s what I’ve got. You can check out the current iteration of the theme here or get it on github here. What does Canvas look like? I’m really just imitating […]
Month: April 2019
Learn Dash Gradebook Customization
Origin Story We had a group get in touch with us who were fairly far down the road using LearnDash for a project. I recalled seeing it in the past but had never used it myself. There were a couple things they wanted it to do that they were having trouble with and so they […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-04-21
The Racial Bias Built Into Photography – The New York TimesIt took complaints from corporate furniture and chocolate manufacturers in the 1960s and 1970s for Kodak to start to fix color photography’s bias. ant-media/Ant-Media-Server: Ant Media Server supports RTMP, RTSP, WebRTC and Adaptive Bitrate. It can also record videos in MP4, HLS and FLVAnt Media […]
Gravity Forms Notification to Google Spreadsheet
The idea that data can flow to different places for different purposes is one of the key concepts I want people to believe in. Different technologies and different interfaces have different affordances depending on what you’re trying to do. In this case, we’ve built some online training for students. As part of that training they […]
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Gravity Forms to Graph Interaction
I’ve long wanted to build more interactive digital content after being inspired by Brett Victor’s explorable explanations. I’m now finally coming to the place where my ability to build things is starting to match my desire to create them. This particular piece of interactive content was inspired by the NYT’s You Draw It Obama article. […]
H4 Widget Headers – Incorrect Nesting Fix
Nothing fancy here but I’m documenting it for the benefit of beginners or people who don’t do this at all. It seems most of the widgets in WordPress automatically give you h4 headers when you add them to the sidebar. That seems to go against the idea of nested and orderly headers that WCAG accessibility […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-04-14
Marn Grook – WikipediaHowever, to observers the game appeared to lack a team objective, having no real rules, or scoring. A winner could only be declared if one of the sides agreed that the other side had played better. Individual players who consistently exhibited outstanding skills, such as leaping high over others to catch the […]
Accessibility Bandage
We’re trying to solve some accessibility issues in sites that already exist. It’s not much fun but some of the solutions might be useful to others. The goal is also to do it pretty fast as many of these sites aren’t really our responsibility but we’re trying to help people out who are on WordPress. […]
Multisite Post Forker – The Jolly Brancher
I happened to see John Johnston’s tweet earlier today. Essentially the goal was to write a plugin in WordPress multisite that would let the user fork a post/page into their own site where they could then continue to edit etc. @cogdog possible splot/plugin idea https://t.co/pL0HnuIO2L — john johnston (@johnjohnston) April 19, 2019 I had been […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-04-07
Facebook includes weird messages inside Oculus Touch controllers – Business InsiderFacebook said it accidentally hid bizarre and “inappropriate” messages inside “tens of thousands” of virtual-reality controllers, including “Big Brother is Watching” and “The Masons Were Here.” […]