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Meet MacBookMaestro.com – A Free Digital Badge Powered Learning Site
This past week I shared three workshops for teachers in Yukon Public Schools on “MacBook Basics” and intermediate Mac OS X skills. All 500+ K-12 teachers in the district received new MacBook Air...
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iPad Blogging with Posterous
The easiest way to blog on an iPad, which I have used to date, is to: – Type notes in Notes (free, comes on the iPad) – Email your notes to post@posterous.com That’s it! It is possible to configure...
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Embedding Flash Audio on WordPress.com with an iPad
WordPress.com is a free, flexible blogging service but has some drawbacks. One of those limitations is the inability to directly include EMBED code in posts. To “protect” authors and blog visitors from...
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Embed a MP3 Audio File in a WordPress.com Blog Post
WordPress.com is a good, free blogging platform, but it can be trickier than Posterous to get rich media (like audio and video files) embedded in posts. Unlike Posterous, which lets users directly...
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Encouraging Pre-Service Educators to Share Work Publicly Online
(cross-posted from PlayingWithMedia.com) In her recent review of my eBook, “Playing with Media, simple ideas for powerful sharing,” Barbara Brown wrote the following paragraph which inspired me to...
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Change the Tagline of Your WordPress.com Website
This weekend I’ve seen two different WordPress.com sites with the default tagline, “Just another WordPress.com weblog.” This is the default tagline which WordPress.com uses for every new site when it’s...
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Utility to Find and Replace Broken WordPress Links
In this post I’ll share some lessons learned finding and replacing a large number of broken links (over 13,000) in the mySQL database of a WordPress installation. After trying several different methods...
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Add Kindle MOBI eBook to WordPress Online Store
The past few evenings I’ve been adding all my eBooks (9 at this point) to a new online store I’ve created on PlayingWithMedia.com, using WordPress and iThemes Exchange. The reason my total number of...
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Comparing WordPress Page Caching Options
If you have a WordPress site that attracts a lot of visitors, it’s critical to install and use a caching plugin. If you don’t and your server has a “spike” of lots of visitors in a short amount of time...
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A Day of WordPress Website Updates
ContentsEyes Right BlogLearning Signs BlogRachelFryer.comPlayingWithMedia.comI know it’s vacation time when I can spend almost an entire day on the couch updating WordPress websites. That may not sound...
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Comparing Differences in Website Statistics Between CloudFlare and Google...
I’m continuing to work with my web host (Site5) to figure out why my VPS (virtual private server) which hosts all my WordPress websites has been crashing pretty regularly. This has been happening the...
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Optimize Your Website by Enabling GZIP Compression
Put your geek hat on for this post. My challenges continue with my web hosting account and my need to optimize it for a large number of connections / lots of traffic so it does not crash when I share a...
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WordPress OKC Meetup Notes: March 30, 2015
ContentsOKC WordPress Users GroupThese are my notes from the Oklahoma City WordPress Meetup on March 30, 2015. I’m so excited to be able to attend this month because our monthly session meeting was...
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Podcasting Options with WordPress
Next Monday night, on July 27th at 7 pm, I’m going to share a short presentation at the monthly OKC area WordPress User’s Group meeting. This is a free meetup at Oklahoma Christian University the last...
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Classroom Blogging Options (August 2015)
ContentsOverall Factors to ConsiderBlogger.comKidBlogWriteAbout.comEduBlogs.orgEasyBlog.orgWordPress.comConclusionsEvery classroom needs a moderated, online space where students can share their ideas...
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WordPress OKC Meetup Tips (August 2015)
Tonight was our monthly Oklahoma City WordPress Meetup, and although I was almost an hour late (due to family carpooling duties) I still learned about a variety of new WordPress plugins I hadn’t...
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Managing WordPress Installations in CPANEL (Monday Sept 28th)
If you are a WordPress user or interested in WordPress, come to the FREE OKC WordPress Users Group on Monday, September 28th at Oklahoma Christian University (OC) in Edmond. The meetup starts at 7 pm....
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Learning about Schoolwide WordPress Blogs with Andrea Hernandez
This week at the 2015 Miami Device Conference I met Andrea Hernandez (@edtechworkshop), an educator at the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School in Jacksonville, Florida. Andrea is at forefront of using...
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Podcast 440: WordPress Security & 2 Factor Authentication
This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Dr. Wesley Fryer on February 29, 2016, titled, “WordPress Security & 2 Factor Authentication” at the WordPressOKC meetup at Oklahoma Christian...
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Experimenting with WordPress on the Google Cloud with Bitnami
Hold on to your hats, because this post is going to extend my personal “geek quotient” a bit and may for you as well. As you read, keep in mind I’m a teacher and school technology director, not a full...
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WordPress OKC February 2017 Learning Points
This evening I had an opportunity to attend a monthly WordPress OKC Meetup (@okcwpug) for the first time in many months, and as always I learned a bunch of new things. I archived my Tweets from the...
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Daily Blogging and an Ode to RSS
One of my favorite Twitter lists which I follow regularly in Flipboard is “Gigaom Vets.” The list includes people who previously worked for GigaOm magazine, which has been rebooted but unexpectedly...
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16 Years of Web Hosting Changes with WordPress and Other Web Platforms: The...
ContentsChoose Your Web Host CarefullyRegister Domains and Host Podcasts Separately from HostingConsider Sitesucker Static Versions of Archived WordPress SitesBeware of Wordfence File and Data...
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Lessons Learned with Website eBook eCommerce Continue (August 2018)
About 4 years ago, inspired by a local writer’s conference, I created a WordPress-powered website to independently sell digital copies of my books as well as offer a subscription-based video library of...
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