Over the past few days, a conversation has been bouncing back and forth on the wp-edu listserv discussing a Google Spreadsheet that was started by Jay Collier of The Compass. The spreadsheet is an attempt to catalog all of the higher ed institutions in the world that are using WordPress, and get a little bit […]
Some Recommended WordPress Plugins
June 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Last year, Eric Juden, Jesse Lavery and I hosted an open discussion at HighEdWeb on using WordPress as a content management system. As part of that presentation, the three of us prepared a Google spreadsheet listing some of our favorite plugins. Keep in mind that this spreadsheet is currently almost a year old, but much […]
Quick Tip: Caching and Site Maps
June 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Earlier this week, I discovered that some of the XML site maps being generated by various WordPress installations were sending 404 headers, making them basically useless to Google. After some digging, I found that the culprit was my implementation of W3 Total Cache on those sites. Basically, I had W3 Total Cache configured in the […]
Quick Tip: Finding Shortcode Usage In Your Site
May 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We’ve all had those days when we’ve decided that we needed to remove an old plugin, but we need to figure out where that plugin might be in use before we can figure out how to solve the issues that were supposed to be solved by that old plugin. In a lot of cases, this […]
Parsing RSS With WordPress
May 10, 2013 by 3 Comments
While fewer and fewer people may be subscribing to RSS feeds (I don’t know if the data actually bear that out yet or not), they are still extremely useful tools in the Web development arsenal. Parsing and using them within a PHP application can be a bit of headache for some, though. Thankfully, WordPress includes […]
New Multisite Plugin Beta: Plugin Activation Status
May 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Tonight, I sat down and modified an old script I’d written, turning it into a real WordPress plugin. The plugin is tentatively known as “Plugin Activation Status”, and it’s developed specifically for multisite and multi-network installations of WordPress. What It Does This plugin first retrieves a full list of all of the plugins that are […]
How Nginx & WordPress Are Configured at UMW
May 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
At the University of Mary Washington, we are using a unique implementation of WordPress in more ways than one. On top of the fact that we are running a “multi-network” install of WordPress — allowing us to set up multiple multisite instances in a single installation — we are also running WordPress on a LAMP stack, then […]
Welcome to WPHighEd
May 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I am very happy to announce the all-new website WPHighEd. I’m hoping that the site will gradually grow into a community of people using WordPress at higher education institutions. Right now, there’s not much to look at, but hopefully that will change in the near future. Until then, here are a few notes: