These posts document experiments in hacking and tweaking Wordpress; I hardly call myself expert, but I do like to tinker under the hood. If there is something I can do for you, bark my way or visit me at http://cogdog.it
Of course the WordPress platform (it’s right under the hood hear) can do much with photos. It’s always been a thing I have loved about the platform is that it lends itself to writing with, surrounded by media, not just rovers of text. But I’ve not opened this WordPress post in my WordPress blog to […]
Coming uo with solutions to WordPress needs often means finding a different tree to bark at. I’m never surprised to discover along the way some dusty niche in the code. For example, in the tale I spin out here, I never knew there was a limit for the number of tags the default tag cloud […]
I’ve been tinkering with some under the hood updates to one of my favorite WordPress Calling Card themes, in fact it was the first one ever, WP-Dimension. I’ve not done much to these themes in a long while (like maybe pre-pre-pre-pre pandemic) but was motivated by a rare but welcome issue submitted to the GitHub […]
You know you have a domain of your own problem when you venture into your cpanel and find sites that you not only do not remember making, you forgot their purpose. In this case I gazed down the spiral of WordPress Theme recursion. What the bleep am I blog muttering about? It’s this subdomain of […]
Profound statement ahead. The web is made of links. Except when they don’t work. This trail all began with a throw away tweet: Yes, I have that old blogger habit of looking through old posts or using them as my (cue the operatic swelling music)… Knowledge Management System. So often, “or mansy days” as the […]
Well it’s more like a day dream that Gojira would rise up with a roar and — this started as a bit of a rant and play at the way Twitter quote / unquote addresses accessibility for tweeted images. I can’t fix twitter. Even Twitter can’t really fix Twitter. But I can do something about […]
The [WordPress] world has enough hate dislike for the Block Editor (ask Tony Hirst). I like it better when a work around works. In my OE Global work I’ve been working on a podcast series, and saw a need to generate audio playlists for different groups of episodes. I remember doing playlists in raw HTML, […]
SPLOTs just won’t go away [from this blog]. I recently celebrated some success in building a new part of the machine, then realizing it’s use case might be narrow. So while no one needs say a third arm, the process of designing it often has unexpected payoffs later. It Came About Because I Messed Up […]
The SPLOTting has not stopped here. I’m happy to have added a whole new avenue for support of services for SPLOTbox I previously thought impossible. You can see it (and try it) in action right now at http://splot.ca/box. As proof of concept, you can add simply via URL, video from Kaltura media servers from BCcampus, […]
I’ve not have much time over last days weeks more to do much SPLOT tinkering (well there is one experimental feature in the works). But I got a burst of positive energy this week from the passing of a green Scooby Doo type van labeled Reclaim Roadshow. Some tweets were spotted about their current online […]
