Jared Stein – Education, Technology, Culture, and the Internet

Everyone who uses WordPress probably knows about the “Blogroll”, or list of links that can be shared as a widget on your site. In education, this feature is great for sharing useful web sites, or collecting students’ blogs. Rather than inserting links one by one, WordPress lets you import an OPML file that contains numerous links (more…)

I’ve re-added the WP-reCaptcha plugin today, now that my spam levels are 50+ a day in spite of anti-spam plugins. It took half an hour to figure out a bug in my theme that caused it to disobey for commenters in the past, and all looks good. I have to hope this isn’t too much annoyance for readers of this blog–I’m betting on the fact that there aren’t a lot to complain about it!

For our pilot run of WordPress MU for Utah Valley University we have installed and configured the WPMU LDAP plug-in to control user registration–basically syncing student/faculty/staff accounts with our Banner student information system. That’s a small tale in itself, but the short of it is Paul Nuffer and I had it working successfully after just a couple of hours. Or so we thought (more…)

Those of you with PHP experience may already know by reputation how easy WordPress is to modify, and I’ve been having a lot of fun customizing themes for the past year. This is a quick and dirty post illustrating how to customize a WP theme to select a Creative Commons license for each post. (more…)