How to Backup Your WordPress Website (and Multisite) Using Snapshot – WPMU DEV http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/backup-with-snapshot/
How to Display Code on Your WordPress Website the Proper Way
How to Display Code on Your WordPress Website the Proper Way http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/displaying-code/ via @wpmudev
FBI Warns of ISIL Defacement Attacks on WordPress Sites
The FBI issued a public service announcement today [April 7, 2015], warning concerning WordPress website attacks being carried out by individuals sympathetic to the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL) a.k.a. Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS). The perpetrators of these attacks are defacing sites across various platforms such as news organizations, businesses, government sites, and religious institutions.
via FBI Warns of ISIL Defacement Attacks on WordPress Sites.
Everyone running WordPress out there needs to make sure they’re patched up and security is tight on your WP sites. CALI’s Classcaster and other WordPress sites are up to date and secure.
Presentation: Attacking WordPress
Attacking WordPress http://www-personal.umich.edu/~markmont/awp/
Good presentation on the nuts and bolts of breaking into a WordPress site and taking control of the server. Uses only open source tools. A must read for anyone that needs to secure a web server.
Boston University School of Law Offers Students $250 to Blog
The Communications Office is looking for J.D. students with strong writing skills to blog about their experiences for In their own words: BU Law Student Blogs. These online journals give prospective students a better idea of day-to-day life at the School. Your posts may also be read by prospective employers, alumni, faculty, the media, and anyone who visits the site, so this is an opportunity to showcase your writing as well as your approach to law school and the legal profession in general.
via BU Law | News | Earn $250/semester as a BU Law student blogger.
This is a great idea that gives a voice to law students and provides the rest of us with some insight into what drives law students these days. This is a program that other law schools should copy. A network of school sponsored student written blogs where students write about their law school experiences would be wonderful.
If you’re at a law school and you don’t have access to a local blogging system, you could do this sort of thing on CALI Classcaster.
Dewald On Blending the First-Year Contracts Classroom At Utah
We wanted the students to watch the videos prior to class. Instead of spending 30 minutes lecturing about the Restatements and then discussing them, the students came to class prepared to do the discussion. This reduced the time necessary in class and also facilitated a deeper discussion. The time savings was used throughout the semester for more in-class group work. In class time was constructed assuming the students had watched the videos.
via Law School Ed Tech – Blending the First-Year Legal Classroom.
This is a great article and information is carries should serve as an example to law schools on how things should be done. Aaron provides great detail on the background in setting up the contracts course, how the videos were created, and the results from surveying the students who took the course.
CUNY’s Open Source “Commons in a Box” A Big Win For Open Source in Academia
With a $107,500 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, CUNY has announced that it will now begin work on the “Commons in a Box” project, assembling its software into a single installation package. This means that other colleges and universities will be able to easily create their own academic platforms. News of the project came with the announcement that the Modern Language Association will take part in its development and will use the platform to create an MLA Commons for its members.
The project has been built using open-source tools, including WordPress (which enables multisite blogs), BuddyPress (a WordPress plugin that turns the blog into a social network), and MediaWiki (the Wikimedia Foundation’s wiki software). As a proponent of open-source technologies in education, that makes the Commons in a Box project a win in my book. It isn’t simply that the project will put the tools to create their own academic networks into the hands of schools; it’s that the Academic Commons development team has been sharing its coding back with the open source community, with WordPress plugins for example that have been downloaded over 100,000 times.
Inside Higher Ed: “Commons in a Box” & the Importance of Open Academic Networks
CUNY’s project joins a number of other major university projects including Open.Michigan, ELMS @ Penn State, and Open Scholar @ Harvard that are using open source software and licensing to develop sophisticated collaborative learning and research spaces. Given the collaborative nature of legal practice, law schools should be at the forefront of these sorts of projects.
Build a serious WordPress server for high traffic website | David Euler on coding and design
http://www.beyondlinux.com/2011/11/10/build-serious-wordpress-site/
When building WordPress for high traffic website, we maintain and restart the web server frequently for better SEO and better user experience; but we don’t want to interrupt user’s visiting.
When we get familiar with SEO, the link/site structure may change and need to update nginx configuration which need restart of nginx. When nginx new version released for fixing a dangerous security issue, we need upgrade nginx.
So we need at least 2 nginx instance for load balance, and another nginx as proxy server. Let’s build the 3 nginx instance on a single server with the same nginx installation(or use 2 nginx installation if need upgrading nginx ). Two of the instance serves WordPress with the same WordPress installation and the same database.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About WordPress, In 15 Infographics
http://wplift.com/15-entertaining-informative-wordpress-infographics
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians develop and communicate concepts using a single symbol to process information.
Found at Weblogtools Collection
WordPress 3.0 Released, Includes Merge of MU Features Into WordPress Core
WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your dashboard). Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation.
WordPress › Blog » WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”.
So, now the big question is how it changes WordPressMU. As those of you who follow along at home know, I’ve been busy of late with moving CALI’s Classcaster podcasting and blogging network over to WordPressMU. I think I will ewait a bit for the reviews come in on how the upgrade from MU to WP3 goes before I jump off that cliff. I’ve included a lot of plugins in Classcaster, so how all of them react to WP3 is going to be an issue.
Most likely I’ll take a stab at upgrading this blog first, after CALIcon, and then think about Classcaster. Of course any additional change to Classcaster will need to be done by mid-July so it is all ready for the Fall 2010 semester.