The iOS WordPress App Editor
The new iOS WordPress app editor is so much better than before. I am not sure when this happened. It is a vast improvement on the older version that I looked at before, much simpler and a reasonable...
View ArticleTalking Big WordPress
Last week I attended the WordPress Big Media & Enterprise Meetup in London. I was asked down to talk about Glow Blogs. Given this was a meet up of pretty serious WordPress developers I was...
View Article#GlowBlogs get your Jetpack on
I’ve not had much time to blog about the Blogs Update Phase 2.2 – WordPress 4.1.2 in Glow Blogs, but I spent a wee bit of time on a new blog showing the features the Blogs gain from jetpack....
View ArticleCall and Response
In Reply To I made discussions on WordPress on blogs.ubc.caIn Reply To I made discussions on WordPress on blogs.ubc.caIn I made discussions on WordPress! Christina describe how she organised some...
View ArticleRSS is an Answer
Last evening I noticed on twitter: We’re live with the #TWP15 google hangout #WordPress support clinic. https://t.co/54NSLs7Izj and https://t.co/AYVtFEVPKY — Rich (@richardtape) June 18, 2015 And...
View ArticleGlow Blogs 558 days in
This is a pretty random time to look back, but I was browsing through some old posts here looking for a link and came across this from 22nd December 2013, before I was started my secondment to the...
View ArticleWordPress as a semantic web platform?
For the work we’ve been doing on semantic description of courses we needed a platform for creating and editing instance data flexibly and easily. We looked at callimachus and Semantic MediaWiki; in the...
View ArticleWordPress to Medium
I’ve read a lot of interesting things on Medium over the last couple of years. It seemed to start as an online space to write longer-than tweet posts, and evolved. I’ve never written more than a few...
View ArticleThis Medium is not a Message
This is a just another test of the plugin to post from WordPress to medium. Nothing to read here. Here is more about The medium is the message – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And here is a bit of...
View ArticleGlow Blogs: 150,000+ WordPress sites for weans
The talk will give a view of how blogging with WordPress fits well with Scottish education’s ‘Curriculum for excellence’. Some loose linkage of Community, Connections & Openness in software and...
View ArticleWhere did my admin screen go?
This post is just a quick note to log a problem and its solution. It only took a wee bit of googling but might help me or someone else at a later date. It only applies to self hosted WordPress blogs....
View ArticleWordPress for Weans at #wcedn
On Saturday I was talking about Glow Blogs at WordCamp Edinburgh 2015. Here are my slides as pdf and shared on iCloud (I’ve never used iCloud in this way). The slides are pretty minimal. There should...
View ArticleWordPress News
There is a lot of it about, a lot of find out about. short term I don’t think this will have any effect on Glow Blogs, long term who know. Here are some things I’ve been reading. Welcome to the New...
View ArticleLet it Snow on #GlowBlogs
If you have a Glow Blog and have activated the Jetpack plugin, you can get snow on your page by visiting the General section of the Settings on your dashboard.
View ArticleWordPress 4.4 embed other WordPress Posts
#Autumn #autumnleaves I’ve not really checked out the new features of WordPress 4.4 in any depth but this new feature looks interesting. Just pasting a url to another WordPress blog post into the...
View Article2015 in Titles
In past years I often written reviews of the years blogging, this year I am a little lazier this is a wordle for the titles of the 90 posts I made here this year. A list after the jump: 2015 in Titles...
View ArticleWordPress.com.app
I am posting this with the WordPress.com desktop app on my mac. The app has been out for a while but I’ve just got round to testing it. I’ve done nothing to set this up other than log on with my...
View ArticleFighting Linkrot
I quite often read above my understanding age, which is why Hapgood is in my RSS feeds. The other day I read: Connected Copies where I read this: the future of the web involves moving away from the...
View ArticleTinkering with WordPress Features
Since I changed themes here I’ve been using featured images a lot more on posts. 1 There are a couple of things that bother me about WordPress featured images, the fact they do not show up in an RSS...
View ArticleiOS Workflows for WordPress 1
Posting to WordPresss is pretty simple on the go. Recent versions of WordPress have a fairly good performance on Mobile Safari. the WordPress app performs a little better the body field is less ‘jumpy’...
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