just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary
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I just had to uninstall the TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter from UCalgaryBlogs.ca – it’s a simple plugin that uses a dictionary lookup to try to detect what it thinks are REALLY obvious spam comment attempts. But it was a bit overzealous. Instead of just modifying the dictionary to remove some valid words (which words are [...]
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I’ve been slowly tweaking the WPMU install that drives ucalgaryblogs.ca – it’s not quite ready for prime time, but it’s darned close.
It’s now got:
multiple blogs per user, and multiple users per blog
subdomain hosting for each blog (i.e., myblog.ucalgaryblogs.ca)
domain mapping – want to use your own custom domain? want myblog.com to point to the blog you’ve [...]
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I currently run two separate blogging services on campus, and think both actually have their place and so continue to maintain and manage both a community blogging service running on Drupal, and a more individual blogging space running on WordPress Multiuser.
weblogs.ucalgary.ca is the Drupal-powered community blogging system. It’s got the organic groups module enabled, with [...]
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I’ve been trying to figure out how to build an effective directory of blogs hosted by a WPMU service. There’s the list-all mu-plugin widget, and it has a handy dandy list_all_wpmu_blogs() method. I’ve created a page template for my theme, and added this code to dump the list of public blogs:
<!– directory stuff goes here [...]
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It’s still not officially released, and I’m still in the early stages of putting together a funding proposal to turn it into a supported service, but if you’re willing to live life on the edge and risk a little beta goodness, UCalgaryBlogs.ca is kinda on the air.
All you need is a valid @ucalgary.ca email address, [...]
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