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
There’s something to be said for making your own tech tools; you certainly know quickly if something goes awry (though you cannot complain much about the tool provider). Something I made first almost 10 years ago is the flickr cc attribution helper. If you take on the task some think too arduous to give credit […]
Can you believe it? This is another SPLOT blog post. Why? I’m trying to keep up with myself. The SPLOTbox has turned into a WordPress theme that can be used for sites where uses contribute items framed around video, audio, and now, image content. The Built In Variety Pack Not turkey, but media… The media […]
BBFWLLT is a family joke/story. When my Mom asked what I wanted for a gift (singular), my little kid brain produced a clever strategy to get more out of the deal. I would ask for a “Big Box Full of a Whole Lotta Little Toys.” This feels like the perfect metaphor for the latest version […]
Building collections of resources is among the oldest things to build on the web (and definitely before that). Heck, I made a “Bag of URLs” for this that ran for like 10 years. My first week on the job in 1992 as a green horned instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges I heard first […]
Never think you are sooooo on top of your code game… Within hours of posting of the features in the updated DS106 Bank theme, including using WordPress accounts for organizing content and sharing the link to a demo site, BAM! SPAM! Not so shiny. So in the theme options allowing WordPress accounts to be used, […]
I’ve been deep in the code tunnels rebuilding and adding to maybe my most complex WordPress theme, the one that let’s anyone build something like the original DS106 Assignment Bank. My blog machine spits out a long list of posts on this effort, and indicates it goes back to August 2013, so while it pre-dates […]
I have a button in my truck that no longer works. I have the full knowledge of how to use it, have done so often, but really have no clue what really goes on under the hood when I click it. That goes for interface buttons too. And that’s design, no matter how complex things […]
But then again, no one else remembered… does that make it right? I had a good enough clue this week when Tom Woodward tweeted: That ancient tweet? Well something pivotal for me happened October 28, 2014: Five years later, I am playing with the hated acronym. If you want the scoop, see the quasi-official origin […]
This is kind of a big deal for SPLOTs… but then again I thought the plugin version was, and that made nary a ripple. Maybe I need to write an open textbook (SNAP!). A brand new version of the TRU Writer SPLOT WordPress Theme is now available sitting tapping its thumbs waiting for you. It’s […]
Maybe the guitar (aka blog post) was not close enough to an amplifier (it fell with a silent thud). I broke some new ground in web making (for me) using a REST API to make a lightweight, customizable HTML site “navigator” for a full WordPress site. Despite a maybe not so clever visual metaphor, perhaps […]
