This was a 15 minute presentation at Reclaim Open. I botched the timing because I didn’t put in enough timed practice. I would have been better off reading the blog post that generated the presentation and led to the creation of this page for our environmentally-focused Digital Detox. Why work on energy-efficient websites? I wanted […]
Category: Web Development
Brute Forcing Canvas Catalog
Canvas Catalog is a front-end Instructure sells so that institutions can create a storefront for courses held in Canvas. In our case, we’re starting to do some paid non-credit courses. While I had a variety of interactions with Catalog back at VCU, I wasn’t deeply involved and most of our goals were fairly linear. It’s […]
Actually Turning on Heroku Dyno Access
Heroku got rid of the their free access a while back. I have one Node JS app on there that knits together a Slack form and WordPress site. I went to the trouble of upgrading to the bottom tier paid account with Heroku. It’s $5 a month. At that point, I thought I was done. […]
Little Hover Element Tweaks
This is a pattern I’ve done on a couple sites recently that I want to put somewhere handy. Bootstrap stretched-link Often you want a whole div and its components to be clickable as a link. Trying to wrap the whole thing up as a link often doesn’t work well. Making lots of links is messy. […]
Semi-fixed bottom navigation
This is another solution for the social science research site. Each fix seems to spawn a new minor, yet complex, problem. It’s easy to see how some web site costs get out of control. Hopefully this one will be the end of things. In our previous episode, we made a fixed bottom navigation to standardize […]
Gravity Forms to Events Calendar Pro
I did some work making Gravity Forms create Events Calendar events back in 2017. Things have gotten easier with the Gravity Forms Advanced Post Creation plugin. I used this on the Anti-Racism site and forgot to document it. First set up your form so it gets you the data you need. You’ll need something like […]
Changing the Order of Fields on Gravity Forms Mobile View
This is one of those odd needs that maybe no one will ever have but I think it’s worth documenting because you can do it. Seeing possibilities helps change how you think. While this scenario might be unique, you might have a different odd need that’s close enough that this inspires some different thoughts around […]
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Add an RSS Feed to Feed WordPress through Gravity Forms
Jim asked about a way to add feeds to Feed WordPress via Gravity Forms. I remember Martha did it for the OG version of DS106 but I couldn’t find the code. That led to me going through Alan’s Feed WordPress 101 and some nostalgia. Alas. After shaking off my longing for yesteryear, I figured I’d […]
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Omeka REST API Experiment
In the Domain of One’s Own workshop yesterday, Ed Beck‘s work around integrating Omeka and WordPress came up. It led me to check out the Omeka S API. I made a functional example in CodePen and a couple of things came up that might be of interest. First, why do something like this? You have […]
Stacking Images with CSS
I wanted to do a little example for a Gravity Forms workshop series I’m doing with Reclaim Hosting. The goal was to play off the Wonder Twins and their ability to change into various shapes. So I thought it’d be fun to propose a scenario and then have people propose different things for the Twins […]