Author Archives: D'Arcy Norman
Demo from the Faculty of Social Work
This is a quick blog post.
Experimenting with BuddyPress
One of the biggest developments in the WordPress software field this year is the release of the first version of BuddyPress – a social network layer to run on top of WordPress MultiUser (the software that runs UCalgaryBlogs.ca). The most … Continue reading
testing paste-from-word
This is some text that I’m writing in MS Word 2003 on Windows. I intend to copy it, then paste it into WordPress in Internet Explorer on Windows. Shudder. How did it do? Some formatted text. Some … Continue reading
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george siemens Originally uploaded by D’Arcy Norman I’m really just testing the xmlrpc posting mechanism to see if it works on this server…
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magazeen theme?
I’m experimenting with some magazine-like themes. They are just regular themes, in that you don’t really have to do anything differently, but if you do things like adding images to your posts, and providing excerpts, they start to display the content a little more nicely. Like magazines, even. Very slick stuff.
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Wiki I’m testing out the WordPress-Wiki plugin, which allows people to set up blog posts and pages to act as wikis to be editable by all Authors and Contributors of a site, without having to mess around with roles and … Continue reading
testing google docs forms as SRS
an attempt to embed a google form in a blog post, to solicit feedback via the web.
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UCalgaryBlogs.ca feedback survey
I’m trying out a new Survey plugin, which will let you run surveys as part of your WordPress site here at UCalgaryBlogs.ca – and thought it might be a good excuse to try to solicit some early feedback on the … Continue reading