IT Staff
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Working on a landing page for promotion campaigns for the Entrepreneurial Journalism program.
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Upgraded BuddyPress to v1.2.6
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Removed the Publish2 widget from the sidebar because it was negatively affecting page load.
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Still working on the massive slew of site migrations from blogs.journalism.cuny.edu
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Putting together BuddyPress usage statistics. I suspect a lot of usage when it was rolled out but then adoption dropped off.
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Implemented Clicky analytics and my mind is already buzzing with ideas on how it can improve the site. For instance, what if the website changed the information dynamically based on the referring address? A user coming from Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMachine website might want to be suggested a link to Jeff’s work and activity on the J-School website. Or, if we know a user is coming from the Graduate Center website, they’ll likely be most interested in the Admissions or Continuing Education content.
The suggestions could also be automatically generated from websites users have specified as links in their profiles.
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Resolved issue with oversized comment avatars by commenting out a line in the TwentyTen theme. Larger issue is that the gravatar images produced by BuddyPress are larger than most themes expect (128×128 vs 40×40)
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Posted a question on WordPress StackExchange about profiling memory usage http://db.ly/th
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Wrote and installed a plugin called Unfiltered HTML as a quick and dirty solution to enable users to embed YouTube and other videos http://db.ly/tc In the near future, I’d like to ensure this is the appropriate way to do this and doesn’t open up too many security concerns.
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Preparing to migrate the last round of websites to the new server so I can move on to something new.
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What I learned today: make sure max connections to your database server is set appropriately to the size of your server. 5000 is way better than 200 if you’re trying to offer a social application.
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Initiating NY City News Service content import. Depending on my luck today, this could either be painless or a complete mess.
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Installed and configured the BuddyPress Group Email Subscription plugin http://db.ly/so which allows you to subscribe to digests of group activity.
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Finished migrating ISnapNY to new server and DNS is propagating.
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