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 […]
Year: 2019
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 […]
Canvas-ish WordPress Template
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 […]
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 […]