About six weeks ago, I was contacted by University Communications to see if I wanted to be included in their ZotZine magazine. They do a monthly feature on people at UCI and like to include favorite lists as a fun way of getting to know others on campus. They asked me...
Year: 2011 Posts
Introducing Faculty Websites
We launched the Beta version of Faculty Websites in May. Over the past few months we've been slowly growing, mostly by word of mouth. As of today, we have 52 Faculty Websites. Not all of them are publicly listed as the faculty members decide when they are ready to...
Blogs to Sites
In August 2009, OIT introduced a blogging service to UCI using WordPress. Over the past two years the service has grown as people have discovered how easy it is to create a blog or a simple website using WordPress. In the past two years, both WordPress and how people...
Faculty Websites (BETA)
In May, OIT introduced a new service for UCI faculty. Faculty Websites makes it easy to create a simple site using WordPress. We are in a Beta phase this summer as we fine tune the system to make sure it is meeting our faculty’s needs. Continue Reading Faculty Websites (BETA)
WordPress MultiSite and WPMU DEV
I am heading up a project to use WordPress multi-site as a Content Management System (CMS) for faculty websites on campus. We have been running WordPress for our Blogs@UCI system since 2009 with great success. The reason we are doing a different installation for...
Displaying WordPress RSS Feeds on Another Web Site
Recently, I had the task of trying to get a WordPress created RSS feed onto the home page of another web site. We have a Safe Computing web site that I maintain. On the home page, I list the recent Security Updates sent out by our security team via a mailing list....
New Site
We had an old Unix web server that hosted web sites for our staff. It had been limping along and finally gave up the ghost. Since all the services were available elsewhere, they decided to let it die. I had a small personal site hosted there, but all content was...
WordPress as a CMS
WordPress is evolving beyond merely a blogging platform. By using Pages along with Posts, you can effectively create a small website with relative ease. Changing the default configuration of WordPress to show a static home page is possible with a few simple changes....