Category Archives: WordPress

notes from Amy’s tech fair session

Interesting – embedding GDocs, esp spreadsheets, as an alternative to building tables.

Combining separate blogs – could that be used for admissions (recruiters w/separate blogs)?

Academic terminology: “jigsaw teaching” – each student takes an aspect of the program & teaches to others? (like a version of Mrs Lauderdale’s way of teaching Great Expectations way back in 10th grade, but not lame.)

Aggregation in combo with categories? Huh. (WordPress is so cool.)

“A leaf on a tree” – relationship of posts to the main page. Love it.

 

testing…

So I’m running into the main problem with Cascade, which is also the main strength: it’s not especially dynamic. Adding a randomly selected item? It only selects that item when the page is published. So not on each load. Which is why people do ridiculous things with JS? (I know from doing ridiculous things with JS.)

We’re getting lots of requests to add blog feeds to people’s Cascade pages. Which is all well & good, there’s even a block type to handle it. Then it came to me: will it update the page when there’s a new blog post? You’d think so, but I honestly have no idea. So I’m adding this post to check a test page that has this blog’s feed as a block.