I made a little shortcode plugin for making it fairly easy to embed YouTube video snippets. The plugin supports both a start and end time or either a start or end time. It also now allows you to embed multiple videos on a single page. The plugin works like below. Times are in seconds. [yt_video […]
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RVArts.org Version II
Lots of remakes going on lately. That’s good in that it means people still want to work with me (now our group) after doing it once and secondly they’re seeing things to change and improve which is how things get better. The harder part to figure out is that in you never really finish anything […]
ANTH101 v 3.ish
“You cannot think your way into a new way of living. You have to live your way into a new way of thinking.” – Mike Wesch You can’t beat that quote as a way to frame a course and it’s nice to consider how digital content supports that kind of perspective on learning/living. It’s also […]
Defend Net Neutrality Plugin
Headless(-ish) WordPress Example
This is a bit of an odd one but possibly odd enough to be interesting. The Scenario We can’t run WordPress on the University servers but we’ve got a bunch of people who have content on WordPress and like that editing experience. They also want VCU domains which are much harder to get for off-site […]
Remove H1 Option from WordPress TinyMCE Editor
In terms of basic accessibility guidelines each page should have only one H1 element. In WordPress that’s usually built into the template and is usually the title of the post or page. I was thinking about that last night and wondered if we should just remove it as an option from the TinyMCE editor in […]
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Conditional Content Display in Gravity Forms Templates
I don’t know when the conditional shortcode was added or if it has always existed and I was just unaware . . . but the ability to use a shortcode wrapper to show/not show portions of content in blog posts created via Gravity Forms is all kinds of handy. As a quick example, the following […]
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WordPress Plugin Health Dashboard (Early POC)
In trying to get a better handle on how we’re going to manage our plugins in the future, I found the API for the WordPress.org plugins data. Not like they were hiding it but I’d not seen it before.Consider me Columbus– absent the genocide, slavery, and other terrible things. Replacing *slug* in the following URL […]
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Javascript for Added Accessibility
Imagine you’ve got a legacy WordPress site built using one of those drag/drop themes. Now complicate it by having a chunk of content created by a non-standard javascript-based slider plugin. Continue to imagine you have a very, very short window of time to bring it up to WCAG2.0 accessibility standards.1 Child themes aren’t a viable […]
Add New Mime Type to WordPress Multisite
In WordPress multisite there is a set of allowed file extensions that can be found at Settings>Network Settings in the “Upload File Types” field. You can add to this list but what isn’t necessarily apparent is that if the extension isn’t already part of the list here1 then you can add extensions all day and […]