On this episode of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist discuss Chris Phillips’ essay “I Hear America Reading: Using Digital Audio to Teach American Poetry,” which appeared in the Summer 2009 issue of Teaching American Literature, and they announce Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V, which will be held at Lafayette.
Tech News includes Windows [...]
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ITS Coffee Break for 11/4
ITS Coffee Break Podcast Returns
The ITS Coffee Break podcast is back. After a six-month hiatus the long-running podcast has moved from its old home on Soapbox to Sites.
In Episode #60, hosts Courtney Bentley and Ken Newquist discuss Lafayette’s WordPress MU project, take a look at Bates College’s new WordPress-powered home page, discuss the Google Wave web application, debate the [...]
Plugins Update for 10/28/2009
We’ve updated three WordPress plugins:
Authors
Contact Form 7
Google Analytics
We’ve also added a new FeedBurner plugin that can be used in tandem with Google’s FeedBurner service to track the number of people subscribing to your site’s RSS feed. To use it, just activate the plugin, go to Settings > Feedburner and add the URL of [...]
WordPress Speed Boost Implemented
We’ve made some changes behind the scenes to give WordPress a speed boost. The practical effect of this is that almost everything that makes up a WordPress page (web pages, JavaScript and style sheets) will now download 2 to 3 times faster than they did before. This should help those who’ve reported slowness when working [...]
Plugins Update for 10/13/2009
We’ve updated several plugins on Sites at Lafayette to their latest versions: Authors, Contact 7, Google Analytics, NextGen Gallery, Page Links To, PowerPress and Sidebar Login. If you’re using these plugins, and encounter problems after the upgrade, please call the Helpdesk at 610.330.5501 or submit a help ticket.
Site Update for 8/19
Sites at Lafayette has been updated upgraded to WordPress 2.8.x. This was a security update, and doesn’t include any major new functionality. One side effect of the upgrade is that sites that have an apostrophe in their title (e.g. Joe Smith’s Web Page) now have a backslash in them (e.g. Joe Smith\’s Web Page). You [...]
Off-campus access to admin dashboard fixed
Over the weekend we had a problem with off-campus users being unable to access the WordPress admin dashboard on Sites. That problem’s been fixed, and you should be able to access it now.
Plugins Upgdate for July 22
We’ve recently upgraded a number of plugins on Sites. If you use these plugins, please verify that they’re working as expected. If you encounter problems, please post a comment here or email the site administrator at wordpress@lafayette.edu.
Akismet: This is our anti-spam software; there’s a known issue with the “Akismet Stats” link, but the anti-spam functions [...]
Welcome to Sites!
After a successful pilot of WordPress MU during the Spring 2009 semester, ITS has decided to move WordPress into production with Sites. This installation, located at sites.lafayette.edu, hosts personal, club, and organization home pages. A separate installation, called Depts, is being setup for WordPress-powered departmental web sites.
All traffic to the WordPress pilot site — wordpress.lafayette.edu — [...]
Updating NextGen Gallery after the Sites Move
NextGEN Gallery, which many of our sites use for photo galleries, didn’t make it through the Pilot-to-Sites migration and upgrade unscathed. The new version of NextGEN (1.3.5) played havoc with existing NextGEN settings and also made tweaks to the database.
As a result, if you’re using NextGEN, you’ll need to do a quick upgrade, reset your [...]