Origin Story Let’s say someone wanted people to write down very personal, very sensitive thoughts about privilege, bias etc. They’ve turned down Google Docs as an option because they heard that people can see that. They want this even if you’ve said that writing down secrets at all is not a good idea and that […]
Month: May 2019
Building an ACF-Based Grade Book Plugin in 30 Minutes or Less
Origin Story Kathy asked me if I had any grade book plugins that they could use with a faculty development course. The goal was to show faculty where they were in the course. I knew I did not wish to use Learn Dash for any number of reasons– grade book module costs extra, grade book […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-05-19
This Dude Is Selling a Virus-Infested Laptop For $1.2 MillionAll together, the six pieces of malware — ILOVEYOU, MyDoom, SoBig, WannaCry, DarkTequila, and BlackEnergy — have caused $95 billion dollars in damages worldwide, attacking millions of users and targeting banks, government institutions, and average people. bio rendernice tool/icon libraries for constructing biology related images A […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-05-12
Welcome to Our Baby’s Personal Brand Reveal Party – McSweeney’s Internet TendencyThere’s just no telling what type of media will end up being the best way for our gift from heaven to spread their message of positivity, love, and corporate synergy. Academe’s Extinction Event: Failure, Whiskey, and Professional Collapse at the MLA – The Chronicle […]
Hider – Remove Elements via URL Parameters Plugin
Origin Story About a week ago I posted about a theme that was designed to integrate into the LMS via iframe embeds. The goal was to strip out extra things like headers and sidebars that were confusing or unwanted. You’d still have a normal WordPress site at your regular URL but would be able to […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-05-05
Herbert Axelrod, a Hustler Who Built an Empire on a Fish Tale – The New York TimesHe could recognize more than 7,000 kinds of fish by sight. He once landed at the Trinidad airport, approached a pool near the runway and, as onlookers gasped, netted a new species. “He was once censured by a professor,” […]
WordPress for LMS iFrame Infiltration
Origin Story Over the years I’ve seen a number of people embedding WordPress within the LMS using iframes. There are lots of reasons to do this but it’s not something that WordPress is really meant to do. You end up with an odd feeling as it’s a website within a website and many things feel […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2019-04-28
The Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom on Twitter: “Shorter: Voiced pauses are an important part of communication and group identity! If you hate the ones in your group, you’re probably not really in that group.” / TwitterShorter: Voiced pauses are an important part of communication and group identity! If you hate the ones in your group, […]
Duplicate Featured Image Remover
Origin Story In a number of scenarios we’ve used plugins to use the first image in the post as the featured image. That’s nice in that if people forget or are unaware of the featured image it’ll happen automatically and that fits in nicely with how various themes use featured images in various layouts. Where […]
Adding an Editor Button for Easy Footnotes
Origin Story I saw Alan’s post this morning about footnotes in SPLOTs. He mentioned adding buttons to the WYSIWYG editor to help use Easy Footnotes . . . more easily . . . because, like me, he often forgets the shortcode structures. I figured I’d better get it made fast before Gutenberg renders all my […]