Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Posts about web applications such as Moodle, Drupal and WordPress.
I recently had to update a Google Mini to use a new stylesheet (built using XSLT) to reflect the college’s new web design. We have two front ends using the same stylesheet, and I applied it to both … but only one displayed it. The other was stuck with the older style sheet and no … Read more
Since the upgrade to WordPress 3.0 things have been running fairly smoothly, but I been seeing sporadic problems with some themes no longer displaying theme options for web site administrators. The three themes in question are Mandigo, Tarski and Viala and in all cases, the superadmins for the WordPress network are able to access these … Read more
Lafayette hosted Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V during the first week of January, and I have to say, I think it went pretty well. We got a lot of stuff done, including putting the finishing touches on two new tools for Moodle: Assignment ZIP (which allows you to download all of the files associated with an … Read more
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V is fast approaching, and it looks like we’re going to have quite a few attendees despite the January time frame and constricting travel budgets. With about two weeks to go until Hack/Doc Fest, we have 23 people registered for Hack/Doc Fest – 17 will be attending in person, 6 will be … Read more
Here are my higher education/web development “Follow Friday” Twitter picks for 12/4/09: @moodle official twitter account for the open source learning management system. @BryanAlexander Higher ed tech guru who groks the intersections of technology, teaching and learning. @jimgroom The best person to follow if you want to keep up with WordPress MU in higher ed.
The first Moodle Hack/Doc Fest was held at Lafayette College in January 2008. Two years later it returns to Lafayette for another three days of coding, documentation, and testing January 5-7, 2010. On the agenda: debugging and testing Moodle 1.9.7, experimenting with the Moodle 2.0 beta (if it’s available), and fixing bugs with Scheduler, Chat … Read more
Keeping up with the latest bugs and improvements with WordPress – or heck, any large-scale project – can be a challenge. To that end, I subscribe WordPress Trac and WordPress-MU Trac, the official bug trackers for the WordPress project. They feature a steady stream of bug reports, user problems and feature requests, and they’re a … Read more
CollegeWebEditor.com has a nice profile on Swarthmore College’s use of WordPress to power it’s online magazine, the Swarthmore College Bulletin. The magazine’s based on the Branford Magazine premium theme for WordPress, which just serves to remind me that we need to dig deeper into the premium theme options out there.
Bates College is using WordPress to power their new home page. College Web Editor has a nice write-up on the relaunch, including an interview with the project leader. They talk about what plugins Bates is using (NextGen Gallery, Super-Cache, WP Table Reloaded) as well as how the site integrates with the college’s social media sites … Read more