Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: open source

  • Embed a MP3 Audio File in a WordPress.com Blog Post

    WordPress.com is a good, free blogging platform, but it can be trickier than Posterous to get rich media (like audio and video files) embedded in posts. Unlike Posterous, which lets users directly email audio and video files to a site where they are automatically converted to an “embedded form,” with WordPress.com you need to post…

  • Creating a Customized URL Shortener with YOURLS

    This evening I took some time to create a custom URL shortener, using the open source tool yourls. I’ve seen Tony Vincent use custom URLs in his tweets and at conferences for several years. Tony has setup the domain and website tonyv.me for his custom URLs. I setup wfryer.me. I won’t exhaustively detail all the…

  • WordPress CSS Help Needed

    If you work with CSS and WordPress, I’m hoping you can provide me with some quick advice for a minor page template change I need to make. On the K-12 Online Conference website, we’re currently using the WordPress theme “Permanent 3.0” by NewWpThemes.com. By default I have the site pages set to use three columns,…

  • A Case Study: How NOT to Set Up a WordPress Site

    I spent four or five hours today helping a local non-profit group in Oklahoma City get access restored to their WordPress website. The site was hacked by a group apparently from Turkey. They were not able to login to the administrative “dashboard” of their WordPress site. Instead of a login screen, the following message in…

  • Configure WordPress to auto-correct HTML nested tag errors

    Today enroute to Lubbock for our first “Celebrate Texas Voices” digital storytelling workshop offered by Storychasers, I helped Don Wilson fix a strange error he’d been having on his WordPress blog. After making a new post several weeks ago, the sidebar on his Twenty Ten WordPress theme started showing up at the bottom of the…

  • Feedburner Feed and Yahoo Pipe Updated (no longer frozen on Feb 18th post)

    A few weeks ago I noticed the Feedburner feed for my blog was not updating. Since changes to my WordPress blog can take awhile, and are “not to be taken lightly” since a mess-up can render my blog inaccessible, I delayed an investigation of the problems creating this situation at the time. Recently my mom…

  • Cloudy is a Good Thing!: Enhancing Instruction with Tools from the Cloud #heartlandconf11

    These are my notes from Kent Brooks‘ presentation, “Cloudy is a Good Thing!: Enhancing Instruction with Tools from the Cloud” at the 2011 Heartland eLearning Conference on March 8th. Follow him on Twitter: @kentbrooks. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Kent’s website is kentbrooks.ning.com. Kent is the Chief Information Officer at Western Oklahoma…

  • #wordpress user group 28 Feb 2011 Notes

    These are my notes from our OKC WordPress User’s Group meeting on 28 Feb 2011. I’ll edit this later and add links to referenced plugins and other sites. I Ustreamed this session and have linked/embeded the recorded Ustream archive below. WordPress User’s Group 28 Feb 2011 Video streaming by Ustream Lynn Dye extremevirtualsupport.com Resources for…

  • OKC #wordpress Users Group Meetup Notes: Jan 2011 #okcwp

    These are my notes from the 31 January 2011 WordPress OKC User’s Group Meetup. WordPress is an open source content management system utilized by thousands of websites worldwide, including “Moving at the Speed of Creativity.” MY REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We are meeting at iThemes tonight, which is an Edmond-based company specializing in WordPress…

  • Blackboard Users: Consider the Parable of The Tailor

    Do you use Blackboard/WebCT at your school or institution? Are you compelled to use it? Have administrators attempted to tempt you, openly threatened you, or strongly encouraged you to use it? If any of the above scenarios are true, I encourage you to consider the Parable of The Tailor, shared by Clay Burrell. photo credit:…