WP JSON to Timeline JS

timeline of last 50 posts

As part of some thoughts on building out a series of reflective views for student portfolio blogs, I thought seeing your WordPress posts in the TimelineJS view might be a useful way to look back over your progress. I intend to wrap this into a custom spreadsheet template and/or a plugin1 but figured I’d sketch […]

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WP REST API Custom Fields to Google Maps

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi. (LOC) flickr photo by The Library of Congress shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) 1 I had a site we used […]

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Vue and the WordPress REST API

I’ve continued to play around with using Vue and WordPress’s API. The Vue stuff is entirely new to me but it’s pushing my javascript knowledge. The main reason I’m excited about the WordPress/Vue (or whatever framework) combinations is simply speed. If you have any doubts give the pagination at the bottom of this demo site […]

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Free Speech? Random Scenario Generator

Talking to Dan about his sports law course resulted in this random generator which might be fun for others. It’s still developing but I like the potential for reinforcing some concepts about free speech in a fun way that allows you to repeatedly explore the topic without it getting tedious. I thought this would be […]

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Portfolio Work – Interweaving the Personal API

I know. The title is pure click-bait. That’s part of why this blog is so wildly popular.1 I’ve been building a new portfolio site2 and I think some of this is kind of interesting even if it sounds boring. There are a few different goals in play. One challenge is to create a site that […]

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Display Google Sheets JSON with JQUERY

I’ve been doing my Google JSON display using Angular but I wanted to see what I could do with jQuery. This is based on the post here by Amit (to whom I am grateful for all the great stuff he puts out) with minor updates due to changes in how Google does things. Do make […]

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Grabbing JSON

flickr photo shared by Library Company of Philadelphia with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) What I wanted to do was grab data from the WordPress API and use that to provision chunks of my new portfolio site. The portfolio is hosted on GitHub and GitHub is HTTPS. At the moment my bionicteaching site is not […]

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Discography to WordPress

flickr photo shared by Thomas Hawk under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC ) license This is in response to something Adam Croom wrote two(?) days ago. I thought it’d be an interesting proof of concept and would let me figure out some things with a purpose. I also like to have a few projects going […]

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Insta Snoop

A while back I was messing with getting Instagram data without bothering with their API because I think their most recent API changes are really annoying. I’m also a bit fascinated with the scale of numbers in social media right now. I opted to look at Snoop Dogg’s Instagram followers and plot their change very […]

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Book Review Site via Angular and a Google Form

I had an interesting conversation with a pair of elementary school teachers. It led to me saying I’d put our two older kids on Good Reads in lieu of some less pleasant ways of documenting their reading. It’s not a place I’d necessarily drop a group of 3rd graders. As we spoke, I figured I […]

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