A little over a month ago, we added Google Analytics Event tracking to many spots on the UMW website, including just about every link on the home page. After more than a month of traffic, it’s time to start sharing our findings. Baseline Information The stats included in this article are pulled from the Analytics […]
September WPHighEd Meetup
September 8, 2013 by 3 Comments
It’s time to begin thinking about our next virtual meetup. At this time, we are planning for Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 at 2 p.m. EDT. Once again, the meetup will be facilitated through Google+ Hangouts “On Air”, which means that anyone should be able to participate in the meetup and invite others to the meetup; […]
WPHighEd August Meetup
August 22, 2013 by 1 Comment
As I mentioned last week, we’re planning to host our first official virtual meetup using Google Hangouts. I think I finally figured out how to pre-schedule a Google Hangout On-Air, which means that you should be able to easily join the hangout and that it will be recorded and stored on YouTube for future reference. […]
Let’s Hang Out
August 14, 2013 by 3 Comments
As I mentioned in the initial welcome post, one of the any things I’d like to do with this site is to use it to help facilitate virtual meetups about WordPress in higher ed. While we’re not necessarily ready to put a regular schedule in concrete, we are happy to announce that we will be […]
Genesis 2.0 – User Beware
August 9, 2013 by 6 Comments
Those of you that are using Genesis as your parent theme or framework may have noticed that there’s a new version available. Genesis 2.0 is a major overhaul to the old theme, including a fairly new structure, new hooks and actions, and completely new styles. However, if you’re using a custom theme built on top […]
Quick Tip: Assigning Admins Within Multisite
August 5, 2013 by 1 Comment
Anyone with a large multisite installation has probably been there before; when you set up a new site, you set yourself as the main administrator just to get through the setup process, but then you want to hand it off to someone else. You go to Settings -> General in the administration area and put […]
Quick Tip: Getting Feeds With More Than One Tag
August 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In most normal circumstances, when you want to pull a feed from your WordPress site, you’re simply looking to pull one of the following: The main feed (all posts) – http://www.example.edu/feed/ A specific category – http://www.example.edu/category/your-category/feed/ A specific tag – http://www.example.edu/tag/your-tag/feed/ A specific term in a custom taxonomy – http://www.example.edu/your-taxonomy/your-term/feed/
Tracking Events With Google Analytics
July 31, 2013 by 1 Comment
Recently, we have been having a lot of discussions about the usefulness of various areas of our website and site template. As part of that discussion, we naturally decided that we needed to gather some data before we could make any kinds of decisions. There were a handful of things we wanted to track throughout […]
WordPress, Accessibility and Higher Ed
July 5, 2013 by 1 Comment
Accessibility is a hot-button issue in higher ed. In many cases, the Web team is passionate about ensuring equal access for everyone, but no one knows quite how to go about it, and the administration isn’t willing to provide the necessary financial resources to make it a priority. At that point, the question becomes “What […]
Some Cool JetPack Tools To Play With
July 1, 2013 by 6 Comments
One of the greatest plugins you can find for WordPress is JetPack. Basically, the ultimate goal of JetPack is to eventually implement all of the cool features that WordPress.com has that you don’t normally get in a WP.org site. There are a few things to know about JetPack before diving in, though. JetPack and Multisite […]