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Watched: Jolly Brancher Demo
Watched Jolly Brancher Demo from youtube.com Following from this conversation Tom Woodward whipped up a plugin to clone posts on a WordPress Multi-site blog to one of your own. I think this could be a...
View ArticleSetting up my own WordPress site – what was I thinking?
I said I'd share some recommendations for plugins and themes for a friend who is setting up his own blog (there was *definitely* no alcohol or coercion involved in this decision making, just to be...
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PressED Conference 2019 – Better late than never!
This post is now six weeks overdue but I’m adding it here for the sake of completeness if nothing else! The second PressED Conference, run by the apparently inexhaustible Pat Lockley and Natalie...
View ArticlePressEDConf19: Supporting Digital Skills with SPLOTs!
This PressED Conference talk by @lornacampbell and @emcandre explored how @EdinburghUni’s Wikimedian in Residence and Academic Blogging Service have used WordPress SPLOTs to develop sustainable open...
View ArticleSome thoughts on extending the LTI Plugin for WordPress
I'm making some sort of half-baked effort to clear some posts out of my drafts folder. I'm resigned to the understanding that many will never see the light of day - their time has now passed - but this...
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HeyPressto! a WordPress and ClassicPress conference on Twitter
Pat Lockley (of Pgogy Webstuff) and I are organizing the 2020 Hey Pressto! conference on WordPress and ClassicPress, which will run on 24 September 2020. HeyPressto happens only on Twitter —...
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Liked a tweet by WordPress.com
Liked a tweet by wordpressdotcom Today we’re announcing an all-new P2 beta as a standalone product, powered by http://WordPress.com. We’re excited to have you try it out:...
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wwwd – John's World Wide Wall Display 2020-09-25 10:05:14
Starting to winnow through yesterday’s #HeyPresstoConf20 tweets, already found some useful and interesting stuff.
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HeyPressto, a conference on Twitter
Pat Lockley (of the pedagogical and technical outfitters Pgogy Webstuff) and I did a thing last week: HeyPressto, a WordPress and ClassicPress conference which happened only on Twitter. That’s right,...
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An Advent Calendar in #GlowBlogs
I’ve been asked about this sort of thing a few times now and not had an answer. It came to me on Friday, but I couldn’t test it at lunchtime as we had no internet in school. I’ve played around with the...
View ArticleWordPress logon redirect
I’ve had to search for this one several times so putting it here so that it might make it stick or be easier to find. Sometimes working with my pupils I want to send them to a blog, have them logged on...
View ArticleH5P interactive content in Glow Blogs
Well I am quite excited. There is a new plugin in Glow Blogs, H5P. This is quite different from anything else in blogs. H5P is a system for creating interactive HTML5 content. It can work inside...
View ArticleGlow Blogs Embedding
Spending some time today updating the GlowBlogs embedding content examples, microbit & scratch projects, pdfs and a ton more.
View ArticleLinks for Glow Blogs
A couple of links for the future of Glow Blogs & one that is useful now (go Gutenburg). Block theme generator – Full Site Editing Submit the form to create a .zip file with your own WordPress...
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Listened: 246 – Building your own social network with the Friends plugin
Listened 246 – Building your own social network with the Friends plugin by Nathan Wrigley from wpbuilds.com So you love Facebook and you hate Facebook, you love Twitter and you hate Twitter. You love…...
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A Term on my Class Blog
I’ve now been running blogs with & for my classes since 2005. I still find them a really useful tool for teaching and learning. The focus and content has changed continually over the years. Back in...
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