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
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 […]
One of the nifty things about WordPress, as if they need naming, is the ability to embed media into posts simply by putting a URL on a blank line and pressing return. No futzing with copying and pasting HTML. Just the link to the page that houses a YouTube video, a SoundCloud audio, a flickr […]
Now we get to the most exciting part to blog of the JIBC project I have been working on. In this series I went from map metaphors, dabbling with a Leaflet.js interface to the WordPress site building. Now we go where no blog has gone be… well this is not true at all. I’ve been […]
This is the third of n in a series of posts covering the development of a web site project for JIBC. Previously I wrote about the metaphor of and prototyping of a map metaphor. Now it’s how it was not exactly realized in the WordPress site created. But let’s start with the end, meet CorrLeader, […]
If you create content in any system, you likely have ways of organizing them into, say WordPress Categories. This is nothing new under the sun. But the typical organization is rather tree like, creating links to drill down, then out. There is an alternative interface, you have likely seen it. I’m not sure what the […]
It might seem counter intuitive to remove from the WordPress dashboard the menu items that allow a user to create posts. Or crazy. But follow my weaving here. This all started when Dave Cormier picked up my call to try a SPLOT. Well, I actually whinged Dave wasted little time! But in no time quick […]
I’m staring at it right now. No big deal. I log in to my blog, and boom! Black menu bar left, lots of links. Menu top, more links. Boxes of information. It’s all familiar. If you’ve been there before. The WordPress Dashboard. But what happens for the very very very first time you log into […]
My data suggests the world is definitely post-SPLOT, it’s fallen to the bowels of the hype curve? I am almost ready to offer bribes to what I thought was a major accomplishment, blogged here a month ago. But the SPLOTs go on in development right here. I have as of this morning a working prototype […]
Can you believe this is yet another blog post about SPLOTs? Has anyone stuck a fork in them yet? Not me. I’m considering a rather major change which ultimately make them less complex to set up. This is all about the need for them to use a secret authoring account that the user never sees. […]
