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How to retroactively remove comment option from WordPress posts

2013/10/07 Leave a comment
  1. Unchecking “Allow comments” does not affect past posts (you had better find that out early in your blogging career – I did not …)
  2. To disable comments for past posts, you have to uncheck “Allow comments”in each one of them.
  3. To even show “Allow comments” in the post editing interface, do this:  image
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Design options for the departmental WordPress-based website using Widgets and Pages

2013/07/28 Leave a comment
  1. For layout design:
    1. Go to http://[yo r site’s URL here]/wp-admin, e.g. http://lrc.unc.edu/wp-admin, and log in (you need site admin privileges , like I have for the LRC site).
        1. In the left-hand menu, click on “appearance”/ “widgets”
        2. You should see this: image
        3. to design your right sidebar, follow the instructions on top of the widget list (i.e. drag and drop, then unfold the widget in question by clicking on the down arrow to the right image to edit the appearance of the site.
  2. “Pages”(in the left hand menu)
    1. are an afterthought in wordpress which was originally based on dated posts (for a diary-like web logs), but can be useful for not time-sensitive , stable areas/sections of your site.
    2. You can include a bulleted or numbered list which you periodically update manually  (click “edit” on the page)
    3. or, for frequently changing information (like lists of students), you can use a system that may have more initial learning curve, but in the long run makes updating easier
      1. embed an online spreadsheet from Google Apps or SkyDrive
      2. or embed an RSS feed like in the above example (if you have an RSS. provider).
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How to workaround SkyDrive embed codes not working WordPress.com

2013/06/07 3 comments
  1. Problem: I cannot seem to get the new embed code that SkyDrive offers now to work on wordpress.com.
    1. Example:https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=4FA3329905D7E1CE&resid=4FA3329905D7E1CE%2162359&authkey=AHmbh-apEmizw-8
  2. Cause: No idea. Guess somebody did not get the memo? Hope it is not me. Smile
  3. Workaround: 
    1. Old skydrive embed code still works in wordpress (E.g. https://thomasplagwitz.com/tag/lists+resources/), but is a completely different syntax than what skydrive offers for embedding now (insert office code into [] to try it out): 
      1. office width="750" height="1300" src="http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidExcelEmbed?su=10634757809471938&Fi=SD25C841818181C2!126&kip=1&AllowTyping=True&Item=Table2&wdHideGridlines=True&wdDownloadButton=True"
    2. However, you can still convert the current embed into the old one:
    3. by inserting the new parameter values into the old ones:
      1. "cid" becomes "su" and
      2. "resid" becomes "Fi" .
    4. This example  successfully embeds into a WordPress.com code now. (insert office code into [] to try it out):
      1. office width="750" height="1300" src="http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidExcelEmbed?su=4FA3329905D7E1CE&Fi=4FA3329905D7E1CE%2162359&kip=1&AllowTyping=True&Item=Table2&wdHideGridlines=True&wdDownloadButton=True"
  4. No we seem to have been here before, so we shall see how long this workaround lasts.
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How to upload files into WordPress and link them to articles

2013/05/02 Leave a comment
  1. In the WordPress “Dashboard” (the landing page after you login as WordPress Admin), in the left menu, click menu item : “Media” /  “Add New”., and drag&drop (or browse and select them).  
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  3. The upload success is visible immediately:
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  5. In the media library, after uploading media, on the “edit media”, there is an opportunity for adding metadata to files
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  7. How do you link files from an article? Click on button: “Add media”, and drag&drop files. How about previously uploaded  files? Click on button: “Add media”, tab:”media library” (instead of the default tab:”upload files”) , ad find your previously uploaded file in the list.
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How to workaround problems embedding MS-Office web apps into WordPress.com

2013/02/14 Leave a comment
  1. UPDATE: this is becoming part of a series, it seems.
  2. SkyDrive and WordPress integration used to work much better, but not anymore?
  3. SkyDrive offers embed code with unescaped &, but you need to replace by & for  WordPress.com to accept the embed.
  4. SkyDrive offers embedding a range, but WordPress fails to display it (e.g. Item=’Sheet1′!A1%3AE10 – maybe b/o the parenthesis?);  tables do still display (e.g. Item=Table1).
  5. Wait, there is more: one or both of the following prevent display also:  &ActiveCell=’Sheet1′!C3&wdHideHeaders=True
  6. A working example for the record (to be enclosed between []): 
    office width="700" height="443" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" 
src="https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=4FA3329905D7E1CE&resid=4FA3329905D7E1CE%2143384
&authkey=AGmGlsvpKj5r0pU&em=2&Item=Table1&wdHideGridlines=True"
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SkyDrive Embedding

2012/12/18 Leave a comment

Excel: tab:File/ image

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Download WordPress blog post overview into Excel table

2012/03/15 Leave a comment

See what I mean: Downloading and browsing the full content XML is of course more powerful than this.

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How to efficiently find help on this blog

2011/06/10 Leave a comment
  1. Searching
    1. Full-text search: quick, even though dumb (“Computers are only machines…”). It may not return the most relevant results. wordpress-fulltext-search
    2. Human-curated search: The author adds metadata to his posts as he sees fit. The metadata vocabulary is somewhat stable from past experience, but may change (”The author is only a human.”  Smile). You effectively execute a humanly-curated search when clicking in the right column on either
      1. a tag link, e.g. wordpress-tag https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/moodle/
      2. a category link, e.g. wordpress-category
    3. Humanly-curated and Boolean AND search combined: This can be powerful in drilling down to an answer to a specific problem – provided there is one on the blog.
      1. Even though there is no easily clickable interface for this, by building URLs in the web browser address bar address-bar-multi-tag-search, combining tags or categories with the plus-sign, you can execute an AND-search against multiple tags(or categories) on WordPress.com
      2. Example: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/moodle+erepository/ finds posts that the author related to both Moodle and eRepository. This can be especially useful for searching the FAQs: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/faq+[add your problem-technology-tag here, e.g. Audacity]/
  2. Notifications: Subscribe to RSS-feeds to receive timely updates on the topics that matter most to you.  Both
    1. WordPress.com, providing RSS-feeds for all categories and tags (click on a tag or category link and find the wordpress-rss-linkicon, it will link to the RSS feed – Example: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/moodle/feed/) – watch either the webpage or your browser GUI for orange RSS icons you can click on to initiate a subscription  -and also for multiple categories/tags (even though this feature is even better hidden, you need to construct a URL in your browser address bar. Example: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/moodle+erepository/feed/). If you want to go beyond our own metadata, WordPress allows also for subscribing to your own searches via RSS: “To keep up with your favorite search results we offer an RSS feed for all search results. Simply click the Follow this search via RSS link in the side bar of any search results page to subscribe to updates in the search result”, consult the WordPress search documentation.
    2. and MS-Outlook, making RSS-subscriptions look familiar like email (of importance in certain environments), greatly facilitate this.
  3. Text-messaging: Get synchronous human help through the Moodle-Wimba Room link. wimba-room-quicklinks
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