We had a network activated plugin throwing a notification across all our site dashboards. We did not wish for this to happen any longer. So this was added to a network activated plugin. The first part enqueues a css script for the dashboard. The CSS makes the message hidden. The css targets a particular element […]
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Digital Histology & the Long Haul
Normally we finish our projects in anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks. Digital Histology has been the exception to that rule. I can see a reference to the site going back to Nov. of 2016! That doesn’t mean we’ve worked on this site continuously for years. The gaps have been frequent and […]
KSES and Voice Thread’s Embed Code
Voice Thread’s embed code should like what you see below. For non-super admins who have iframe embed rights we were getting this instead (once the post had updated and been cleansed by our friend kses). It still mostly worked but we needed to tweak things to let in those additional variables (allowusermedia allowfullscreen allow). You […]
Gravity Forms User Registration After the Fact
Gravity Forms lets you set up user registration via an additional plugin but it require some setup. It’s not hard to run into a scenario where you though people were getting registered but they were not. Not a big deal if it’s a handful of people but not pleasant if it’s more than that. I […]
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Motherblog Plugin Error
Ran into an interesting bug today on the Motherblog plugin. Despite being in use for a number of years this is the first time we’ve run into this particular issue. It seemed that if a student was using their blog for two different courses and the two courses used identical subcategories for assignments the subcategories […]
Gravity Forms Registration – Add User to Multiple Sites
You’ve got a scenario where someone is signing up to multisite via Gravity Forms’ user registration plugin. The following function will automatically add them to as many additional sites as you’d like. […]
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Show Posts in Same Category on Gravity Forms Post Creation
The goal here is to have someone create some content in a particular category (using Gravity Forms) and then end up seeing content from other people that is in that same category. There are lots of ways to do this but this in a simple and dynamic way. It has the added benefit of requiring […]
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Gravity Forms + Mermaid JS = Decision Flowcharts
I was building something in JSPlumb the other day1 and it prompted Tim to ask if we could build flowcharts based on survey responses so that respondents could see their choices in context. I thought we could and it led to this simple example2 that I think will have lots of interesting and broad applications […]
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ePortfolios: Competing Concepts
I talked to some VCU people about ePortofolios1. It’s a conversation I’ve had any number of times over the years. I think that experience is leading to a better understanding of what’s going on structurally and the space we have to navigate competing interests. I’m also in a better position to show how certain technologies […]
For Want of an API . . .
We wanted to be able to know whether people signing up for Ram Pages were faculty or not but didn’t want to add fields for them to fill out. VCU has an online phonebook with faculty emails in it but there didn’t appear to be a way to hook into an API. But you can […]