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Missed the 200,000th visit….
2014/08/01
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But for the best of reasons, I was blogging, thinking how education will be improved 
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My thank-you for over 100,000 views…
2013/03/22
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… is a little Online Tool to handle GUIDs. I missed the 100,000th visit coming through the front door 
, but the tool was also posted a short while ago.
LRC Calendars setup, documentation and training
2012/06/29
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I have written dozens of posts on the MS-Exchange/Outlook/OWA/Ninermail calendaring system that I set up for room reservation, equipment circulation, and staff timetabling in the LRC, the most recent 50 of which you also can view here – which should display like below in Firefox feed display. If you use Internet Explorer which has a nicer RSS feed display, you get to a list of articles where you cannot only browse, but search within the search results:
Categories: e-infrastructure, Screenshots
2007, 2010, 2011, blogging, calendaring, live@edu, meeting-requests, meta, ms-exchange, outlook, outlook-live, resources, scheduling
Is there a better way to do complex and/or multi-category searches against a WordPress.com blog but to rely on MS-Internet Explorer feed display?
2012/04/20
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- I am looking for posts on my blog that fall under the categories “English” (ESL teaching) and (“listening” OR “speaking-4-skills” – never mind the “-4-skills”, another oddity – you can change the slug of posts, but can you change the slug of categories and tags also?).
- https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/category/study-program-is-any/all-languages/english/feed or shorter https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/?category_name=english, opened with MS-Internet Explorer’s feed display allows me to access the result of the 2 AND searches with 2 additional clicks
- :
- OR search works: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/?category_name=listening,speaking-4-skills
- AND search works, so I could provide 2 separate links:
- But I cannot find the syntax that would give me both AND and OR against categories, for the following return nothing (what is the operator precedence of “+” and “,”)
Categories: blog
meta, ms-internet-explorer, rss, searching
How to search this blog: Combining searching for tags and categories with feed display in Internet Explorer
2011/12/14
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- By adapting this mask in the address-bar: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/YOUR-1ST-TAG+YOUR-2ND-TAG+…+YOUR-NTH-TAG/feed/?category_name=YOUR-1ST-CATEGORY+YOUR-2ND-CATEGORY+…+YOUR-NTH-CATEGORY
- you can combine into an AND-Search
- a tag-search (e.g. for the posts tagged as “FAQs”. You can find other tags from the tag-cloud in the right column of the blog; note that it is not complete, but only the most frequent tags are displayed there. Tags are a metadata collection that can flexibly grow on demand)
- a category_search (e.g. for “audience-is-teachers”. You can find other tags from the category-hierarchy in the right column of the blog; note that this hierarchy is complete, all categories tags are displayed here, top categories alphabetically, sub-categories alphabetically under their respective parent. Categories are a more controlled metadata collection)
- and the display of only the “feed”
- which makes for a quicker overview of large search result sets than the complete articles that a search without “ /feed” would return)
- and allows for subscribing to (or saving stored) searches
- Internet Explorer’sfeed display is
- compact
- provides a (1) cumulative overview of all tags and categories (the “ tag cloud for search results” that is missing on WordPress.com ) within the search results which is easy to browse and drill into, for searches within search results (click to “filter by category” and tag: Internet Explorer subsumes both tags and categories of WordPress.com’s blogs under the term “category”).
- (2) evidence of an AND-search across tags and categories (e.g. find only FAQs that are for meant for teachers: 15 matches for the former, 15 matches for the latter, 15 matches overall)
- Result:
- Limitations
- To browse categories by view (syntax /category/[CATEGORYNAME]), you would have to travel the full path of the category hierarchy. Using “&category_name=” seems easier, especially since the view does not allow for searching within the entire category sub-branch. Each node stands by itself.
- Remember that this is not full-text, but metadata (“human curated”) search technology. The quality of the search results hinges on the quality of the metadata originally added to the blog posts by the author (“To err is human”, or “Garbage in, garbage out”).
- Worse: There is no provision for collaborative tagging on WordPress.com.
- more hints:
- “/feed” works only before ?query-string-syntax, but only after /view-syntax, like in the following examples around “Arabic”.
- you do NOT need to give the whole branch of categories when using the view-syntax (and also not only for the 1st and 2nd level): https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/?category_name=arabic works, but so does https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/category/arabic/feed and also https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/category/study-program-is-any/all-languages/arabic/feed.
Categories: audience-is-any, blog, documentation, e-learning
meta, metadata, searching
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FAQs for LRC student staff or for students or for teachers. To search our FAQs, in the browser addressbar, add after "https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/?tag=faqs+/" "+TAG1" (from tag cloud below) OR "https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/tag=faqs
&category_name=" "CAT1" (from category hierarchy below). OR search both categories and tags, and multiple TAGs/CATs (connect with "," for OR-search, with "+" for AND-search), like so: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/?tag=TAG1+TAG2+...TAGn&category_name=CAT1
+CAT2+...CATn"
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