Weekly Web Harvest for 2018-08-12

We took a tour of the abandoned college campuses of Second LifeColleges were among those that bought the hype of the Linden Lab-developed virtual world. Many universities set up their own private islands to engage students; some even held classes within Second Life. Most of these virtual universities are gone –– it costs almost $300 per month to host your own […]

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Super Cleansing Cut/Paste into Tiny MCE in WordPress

Had someone cut/pasting from Google Docs into WordPress and it was ending up littered with internal style elements and super irritating span classes. I found this post which got me 95% of the way there and just added .removeAttr(‘style’) to get rid of the inline styles. Now I can just re-cut/paste and get a clean […]

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Accessible ACF-Based Tooltip Dictionary

We have a bunch of world language professors prying at the edges of Pressbooks. One of the requests yesterday was to be able to create a mini-dictionary of target language words at the beginning of sections written in that target language. Mousing over the words would show their English equivalent. The intent is to have […]

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Workshop to Event Workflow in WordPress

I have been doing little other than semi-real web development for three weeks across a number of projects. It’s a level of sustained practice/work that I’ve probably never done before. Who knew that kind of focus could actually result in fairly dramatic improvement? One of the projects is the reconstruction of our ALT Lab department […]

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