I recently asked some of my colleagues to share their thoughts on how WordPress and Drupal compare. Among the responses, I did hear a few Drupal users point out that they thought Drupal was more secure than WordPress, or that it wasn’t possible for WordPress to handle large, complex websites (I would think that many […]
Thanks for a Great First Year!
December 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I want to take a moment, before we move into 2014, to thank all of you for a great first year. It’s been quite a lot of fun putting together the posts that we’ve put together this year, and it’s been great knowing that people were benefiting from the information found here. In the coming […]
Chris Wiegman Joins iThemes
December 4, 2013 by 1 Comment
One of the members of our community has joined forces with one of the better-known providers of premium WordPress plugins. Chris Wiegman worked for quite a while at Southern Illinois University, where he initially began to dig into WordPress, then went on to work for a short time at St. Edward’s University before moving out of […]
October Stats: The UMW Website
December 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
It’s been a little over three months since we began running event tracking on the UMW website, and we’re starting to get a little better picture of how people are using the site. Baseline Information The stats included in this article are pulled from the Analytics reports for the entire UMW website during the month […]
Quick Tip: Checking for Filters and Actions
November 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Within WordPress, every once in a while you’ll need to see if a specific callback has been added to a specific action or filter. For instance, in my case, I needed to temporarily remove the callback that inserted the “Sharing” buttons via JetPack on some content I was re-purposing. In order to do that, I […]
2014 Conferences To Watch
November 8, 2013 by 1 Comment
The 2013 conference year is almost over (as is the 2013 calendar year, obviously). For me, my conference activity for the year concluded with edUI 2013, which was, yet again, an amazing experience. At this time, I’d like to take a look forward to next year to point out some of the great conferences that […]
September Stats: The UMW Website
October 31, 2013 by 2 Comments
Now that we’ve been running Event Tracking on the UMW website for more than two months, we can start to look at some of the patterns that are beginning to emerge. Granted, it’s still a relatively small sample size, and we can’t really begin to draw any major conclusions yet, but we can at least […]
HighEdWeb 2013 Wrap-Up
October 30, 2013 by 3 Comments
Ok, so I know I probably should have posted this about 2 weeks ago, but things have been pretty hectic around here. HighEdWeb 2013 happened earlier this month in Buffalo, NY, and, as always, it was an amazing experience. We got to be involved in an AMA (ask me anything) with Steve Wozniak, and we […]
WordPress 3.7 is Here! Are You Ready?
October 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This evening, WordPress 3.7 was officially released. The biggest change in this latest version of WordPress is the auto-update functionality. Once you upgrade to WordPress 3.7, you won’t have to worry about manually updating the site again until the next major version is released; you read that right, WordPress will automatically update itself any time […]
Quick Tip: Genesis Easter Egg
September 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This has already been somewhat documented throughout the Web, but for those that don’t know about it, Genesis includes an “easter egg” (it’s documented as such in the code) that allows you to turn any static page into a post archive. To do so, edit the “Custom Fields” for the page. Add a new custom […]