It’s been a bit chaotic over the last few weeks and I haven’t been posting much but I have been making fast videos of things. So I’m going to cram a bunch of those things together here with a bit of text to explain what they are and why they might be interesting. Some of […]
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Clean the WordPress Dashboard & Add Your Own Content
This little plugin is meant for WordPress multisite. When network activated, it closes all the default dashboard widgets and adds your own. It populates your widget with the title and excerpt of any posts on your root blog that are in the category ‘support.’ It’s meant to make it easy for you to add tutorial […]
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Justify Your Year – 1 Page Front and Back
We’re getting a new supervisor in the near future so we were asked to write up a success/challenges<footnote>See how I made them opportunities? ABC baby. ABC. Or ABC if you’d prefer. I’m good with either.</footnote> sheet to give them an idea of what’s working for our various groups and what’s giving us problems. I thought […]
Voting in Gravity Forms
This is one of those unique needs but with base elements that are likely to be useful in other scenarios. It looks at the logical operators in Gravity Forms which require no programming knowledge, looks at using cookies to discourage more than one entry, and finally moves to using the API to display data. That’s […]
Persistent Check Off List
Origin Story We’re doing the Photography is Magic course again this semester. One thing we do the first week is go around and the room and students say a word that has something to do with their major, life etc. We also name some cliche image types from Instagram. We end up with a large […]
Simple Content Restrictor Plugin
Origin Story I had a number of emails from people trying to restrict content in various ways. One person wanted to restrict access because they were editing previously published content. Another person wanted more of a traditional membership-style option with the ability to restrict certain content based on user roles. I looked at some of […]
WPlus WordPress Theme
Origin Story There once was a group who really liked Google Plus. With the demise of the service, they were unhappy. With this request, I wondered if we might just build a very similar experience in WordPress. I think I ended up getting pretty close. The Look The theme is built using our normal pattern […]
Checkboxes exposing more content
The basic idea here is that if you check all the boxes, more stuff will be shown. Right now it’s set to need all 6 but it could be any number. Once again, it’s an ugly demo that we didn’t end up using but I can see this being useful in the future and it’s […]
YouTube Choose Your Own Adventure Interaction
This was a quick demo built to show how we could mix videos hosted on YouTube with viewer choices at the end of those videos that cause other videos to load. There’s a bit of work around what the visuals would be like for a user but nothing aggressive.1 If you play the first video […]
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An Option for dealing with CORS
As we do more things with JSON, I run into CORS access issues. They can be solved in various ways but it’s often a hassle. It often irritates me as I build demos in COde After wanting a simple solution this AM, I made this tiny, insignificant PHP file that I think might be useful […]