Revver WordPress Plugin
This one comes via the Tubetorial site (which has a definite "monitize it" theme). As the video demonstrates, there is now a Revver plugin for WordPress. What are the advantages of Revver over...
View ArticleWhy Does Podbean Look So Familiar?
If you want to get into podcasting, but you’re not willing to go through the steps and work to get a hosted WordPress blog (like we have with Bluehost), I have a recommendation for you. Check out my...
View ArticleHappy WordPress 2.7 Day
It’s nice to see that WordPress 2.7 is available, at least on WordPress.com. Having attended a great WordCampEd conference at George Mason with the UMW crew last month, I feel like I own version 2.7 a...
View ArticleOh, Embed
We are thick in the middle of WordPress here in DTLT, constantly creating new sites for ourselves, and wouldn’t you know, now helping great gobs of faculty with their domains and WordPress installs....
View ArticleYouTube Time
In this 2nd post about WordPress embeds (here’s the 1st one), I wanted to point out a simple trick that is part of the API for the YouTube embeds. You may not notice anything special about the YouTube...
View ArticleoEmbed, Can You Hear Me?
We’ve arrived at the final post (for now) on using WordPress embeds (see part 1 and part 2). This post fills in the gap to something that is obviously missing in our oEmbed examples. We saw the...
View ArticleThanks, Tom Woodward
Photo by Serena Epstein Thanks to Tom Woodward, I am doing some Thanksgiving WordPress blogging. He wrote this awesome, simple, WP plugin that makes an “Easy Button” for writing posts. It get’s placed...
View ArticleYouTube Thumbnails for Featured Images
In my new job, I am getting deep into the inner workings of WordPress again. More about that in a future post (promises, promises). However, I will say that WordPress continues to progress towards a...
View ArticleWordPress and it’s Amazing Openness
Several years ago, I got tagged as the “media guy” while I was working at the University of Mary Washington, which meant I was the resource for all things video and audio in DTLT (UMW’s Teaching and...
View ArticleWordPress and Its Amazing Longevity
I’m realizing now that I could write several posts that start with the title, “WordPress and Its Amazing …” However, this post tells a funny story about broken web links. I use a plugin on many...
View ArticleWorld, Hello.
When I worked at the University of Mary Washington, I always got a kick out of a new semester and hence new websites from a new group of students using WordPress. Whether it was UMWBlogs or a new...
View ArticleOrdering Clarify
Happy Monday morning! Getting in to work today I checked my Feedly (RSS reader – yep, I still use RSS every day) and discovered that Tim Owens at Reclaim Hosting had written a post about using Clarify...
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