http://sites.lafayette.edu The blog for personal, club and organization web sites at Lafayette College Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:53:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/11/11/its-coffee-break-for-114/ We've discovered a bug in WordPress in which pages that only have a number for a name (e.g., 2009) can't be accessed. Instead of going to the page in question (e.g., http://sites.lafayette.edu/asite/classes/2009) the parent page loads (e.g., http://sites.lafayette.edu/asite/classes). The problem is that WordPress will not allow page slugs to contain ... http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/10/29/bug-with-numbers-only-page-slugs/ 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 ... http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/10/29/its-coffee-break-podcast-returns/ 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 ... http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/10/28/plugins-update-for-10282009/ 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 ... http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/10/26/wordpress-speed-boost-implemented/ 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. http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/10/14/plugin-update-for-10132009/ 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. ... http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/08/19/site-update-for-819/ 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. http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/07/27/off-campus-access-to-admin-dashboard-fixed/ 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" ... http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/07/27/plugins-upgdate-for-july-22/ 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 ... http://sites.lafayette.edu/blog/2009/07/27/welcome-to-sites/