I’m a big fan of Events Calendar Pro. It makes all sorts of date related things in WordPress very pleasant. The free plugin also does a great job. I did run into a bit of an issue this afternoon as I tried to take events I created in one site and get them into another. […]
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Troubleshooting WordPress
This is an attempt to explain a pattern of troubleshooting WordPress through a specific event and perhaps reinforce the need for me to be humble in all interactions with people. So even if you never have this problem this might be useful. Symptoms An admin for one of our sites using FeedWordPress and suddenly can’t […]
echo wp_oembed_get fix
Pure click-bait gold, baby!1 You know I’m focused on those high-traffic titles. And now on to the show . . . I’m doing a site for the esteemed Jon Becker’s school law class. The goal is to take tweets that exemplify really bad legal choices by public school administrators. They even have a hashtag – […]
KSES Allow Twitter Widget Embed
The two little lines above keep the Twitter tag search widget embed code (below) from getting cleansed in the WordPress Editor. Keeping a chunk of these extra-curricular allowed elements in a plugin allows us to activate them on a per trusted user basis. […]
Archiving Slack Channels
Since we’re making channels in Slack via our project creation, it made sense to archive them when the project was completed. In projects (this particular post type) we have a custom field for the start date of the project and one for the end date of the project. Step one is to check on updates […]
WP API Posts Plugin
This is a little plugin I wrote while working with Jon Becker to build out the Ed Leadership Hub site. Essentially, we wanted students to be able to fill out a quick form and build out a profile page. As is my my wont, I went the Gravity Forms route. They could give a short […]
Event Calendar & Participation
One pretty common need I’m starting to see around community-engaged learning is a way for students/faculty to submit events to a central calendar and then indicate their participation in various events. That comes with various program requirements. People want specific reflection patterns per event and have different ideas around what an event counts for in […]
Outboard Memory – Query Thumbnails & Crop Images CSS Trick
Two little tricks that came up this week . . . Random Posts Must Have Featured Image Set Sometimes you want to query a random set of posts but only return those with featured images . . . you can using ‘meta_key’ => ‘_thumbnail_id’ like so . . . Handy. At least for me. object-fit: […]
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What is Rampages? Part Two
Image from page 776 of “The Ladies’ home journal” (1889) flickr photo by Internet Archive Book Images shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) Continuing on from Part One . . . I have way too many examples. If you read this blog often, you’ve probably seen most of these being born1 but this is […]
What is Rampages.us? Part One
I’m going to be attempting to explain what rampages.us is to a group on Tuesday. I’ve been struggling with a more digestible version of this for some time. While true, saying “Whatever you want it to be,” isn’t what people want to hear. Giving people something more concrete to think through what the site can […]