Author: Vision Nest Media
Sometimes you just have grab the title or the body of one or more WordPress posts into another one. Instead of just copy pasting the content it had to be live; i.e. changing the original post had to change the one where it was pulled into. This is what I had to do yesterday. I could have built a custom...
Have you ever wished you could copy just the names of the files in a certain folder to a file? I did, but never bothered to check how this can be done. It is this simple: Select the files in the folder whose names you want to copy. Tip #1: you can use CTRL-A to select all of them Tip...
I signed up for the 2013 San Francisco Wordcamp (an annual conference on WordPresss) months ago and finally its day arrived. It arrived a bit early for me as I woke up at 3 AM, due to jet-lag. Nevertheless I am proud to say that I not just attended but also paid attention to seven sessions. For my notes and/or their...
Check out the new website for Main Stage West, a theater in Sebastopol CA, where “Good things come in small packages…” This is the website we worked on as part of the WIMPgives event I mentioned couple of weeks ago. The team included Nate Bauer, who designed the site, using some of the ideas and preferences of Keith Baker, MSW’s Managing Artistic...
I will be spending a day this weekend on building a website for a local non-profit organization. The event was organized by a local group called, Web & Interactive Media Professionals, or WIMP for short. I am not yet a member of the group, but I follow and sometimes contribute to their discussions on Facebook. Here is the official description of...
A full time, Drupal and WordPress related position in the Johnson County Library (Kansas) opened up: Web Content Developer The Web Content Developer has primary responsibility for writing, creating, re-packaging and managing content for the Library’s website; coordinating social networking and related on-line community collaborations; and analyzing library and community information needs to plan for short and long-term site development....
I signed up for Drupal Camp Stanford University 2013, to be held April 5-6, 2013, but probably will not make it. I did in 2011 and didn’t in 2012. Here are some of the sessions that I suspect I would benefit from if I could be there this year. Beginner level: Elegant Content Sharing: R.I.P. Feeds, Hello Large-Scale Content Syndication! I have been using Feeds...
There will be two “Drupal in Libraries” sessions at the European Library Automation Group‘s annual conference, held in Ghent, Belgium Between May 28 and 31, 2013. The official description reads: The first session is about introductions: we would like to see 3-4 15 minutes presentations (focusing on available library-centric Drupal modules), and some 5 minutes “lighting talks” (focusing implementations –...
Alachua County Library District has a posting for a digital services manager for a content-rich Drupal website. The eBranch Manager supervises two digital services librarians. Team is responsible for website user experience and content, ILS user experience, patron support for eBooks and other digital services, staff training and programs. This position is responsible for the administration and efficient daily operation...
From the preface of “Search Quality Rating Guidelines” that Google just released: Google relies on raters, working in countries and languages around the world, to help us measure the quality of our search results, ranking, and search experience. These raters perform a variety of different kinds of “rating tasks” designed to give us information about the quality of different kinds of results...
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