Category: WordPress
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Quickly publish student writing with WordPress and iPadio (no-edit podcasts)
Helping people of any age become writers and authors is a BIG deal. In this post, I’ll explain how I used a WordPress blog last night and a free account with iPadio to publish the text of a student-created story as well as an audio recording of the student reading her story orally. It took…
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Hyperlinked sliding image banner in WordPress
I need to update the WordPress theme Karen Montgomery and I are using on our Powerful Ingredients 4 Blended Learning site, to make it easier / clearer for visitors to get information about our “Digital Magic Tricks Workshop” for educators and register directly for the June 21-22 workshop we’re planning to offer in Oklahoma City…
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Help needed with WordPress Header Links CSS
I have a technical WordPress question I’m hoping someone can help me solve. I want to add an additional link in my WordPress theme header to a “Dynamic Duo” page Kevin Honeycutt has created for us to share, in cross-promoting each other as professional development speakers / workshop leaders / keynoters. You can see the…
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WordPress OKC Feb 2010 User’s Group Notes
These are my notes from our February 22nd OKC WordPress User’s Group meeting. About 14 of us are here tonight. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Chris Jean from iThemes.com is here again! jcriley.com – afhmarketing.com – mainly search engine marketing Tonight we are going to talk about several WordPress plug-ins First hearing…
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New WordPress design thanks to Lightword
I’ve been dissatisfied with my WordPress blog theme for many months, but the time and potential headaches involved in making a change to this design have held me back from trying something new. This evening, because I needed to install the Contact Form 7 plug-in to use on a new “Speaking” page I created, I…
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WordPress for iPhone 2.2 Even Better
The ability to mobile-blog with a smartphone is a powerful capability for Storychasers. (Including Geo-Storychasers!) I have been using the free WordPress for iPhone app for several months now, and am pleased to learn the latest 2.2 version not only supports comment moderation but also comment editing AND replies. Mobile blogging tools keep getting better!
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Getting started video tutorials with WordPress
I’ve set up three different websites with WordPress in the past year for local nonprofits, and I need to help the leaders of each organization begin using their sites to post updated information. I’m utilizing screencast tutorials from WordPress.tv in this post to create training materials for these individuals as they start using WordPress. I’m…
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OKC WordPress Group 25 Jan 2010
These are my notes from our Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group tonight. The new OC network intrusion detection system prevented everyone at the meeting except one person from accessing the Internet as a guest-user. Ugh! Very painful. We survived not having Internet access, however, thanks to prepared slides and pre-loaded browser tabs by presenters. MY…
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WordPress Plugins for Database Maintenance and Plugin Listing
Thanks to the list of recommended WordPress plug-ins from Studiopress, I discovered Lester Chan’s WP Database Manager plugin and WP-PluginsUsed plugin today. These are both free and can add valuable functionality to self-hosted WordPress blogs. WP Database Manager provides a web-based interface for mySQL backups, repairs, and optimizations. “Removing overhead” from your WordPress mySQL blog…