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
Psss, there are ways to do online conferences that do not require The Zoom. It sounds unlikely, but I have been part of two Twitter based WordPress in education conferences cooked up by Pat Lockley, PressEd versions I’ve been a part of in 2018, in 2019, and in 2020. So when Pat messaged about looking […]
It’s about time. Thank you, WordPress version 5.5. A subtle new feature appeared, I only glanced after running the update on one of my sites. Those themes you install directly from WordPress have long been easy to update, it’s done in one click (and now can be set to autoupdate). But for themes you upload […]
I’m allowed to brag a bit, right? Word came via email that a WordPress site I built last year for BC Corrections (hosted by and working with folks the Justice Institute of British Columbia) won a bronze prize from the Horizon Interactive Awards. I wrote several posts about the making of the BC Corrections Leadership […]
I can hear a dated 1960s beat from the back of my brain… something to rev up the blog again. Yet different lyrics? The SPLOT goes on, the SPLOT goes on I keep pushing updates to the repos. La de da de de, la de da de da MOOCs was once the rage, uh huh […]
Over the last 8 months I’ve been tinkering on a WordPress site made for my wife Cori’s high school program. It’s a place for students most at risk of not graduating across three local schools to write, reflect, connect. It’s a web site but there’s much more to it. If you think Central Canada is […]
There’s some textbook theory of design as a thing where some entity identifies a need, some objectives, stuff is scoped, and handed in a neat handy packet to a developer. I had that happen. Sort of. Once. That’s not even a fun process; the ideas I like most and work from are unanticipated, and often […]
I’ve known of some problems with one of my WordPress themes for a while but pushed it aside. WP-Dimension is one of my favorite “Calling Card” WordPress themes. maybe if it was the first one I welded from the HTML5Up original template. A lot of folks use it (including mine at the Best Domain I […]
Maybe it’s not much news to have a media uploader used in a WordPress site… but what if I said you can do that on a site without needing an account or a trip to the ugly dashboard? That’s been a big round of improvements over the last 3 months, a revamp of the TRU […]
Ever since I did some fiddling to make the SPLOTbox WordPress theme be a way to collaboratively create podcasts, I’ve had another dream tapping away. I could hear it. Tap. Tap. Tap. I wondered if it was possible to put a thing right in the page to record audio and have it save to the […]
There’s alway room for another Three Letter Acronym. So did I un-intentionally build an LXP? Tannis Morgan first suggested so in twitter and even more in a recent blog post. But wait a minute- whatsa LXP? As a TLA it sounds buzzword-ish. But because I know and respect Tannis, when she first blogged why these […]
