WordPress Externships system Working version now at https://insidelaw.gsu.edu/externships/ Admin page “Externships” on dashboard, allows “Bulk Actions” of “Edit” to set (but not reset[a]!?!) categories, type and semesters. Bulk edit can also place selected Externships into “Draft” status to hide from listings Two complete systems – the “default” posts listings and the “shortcode-implemented” “selector” Opportunities listing. Default system:… Read more »
Posts Categorized: How to
Manually add new users
How to manually add new Campus ID users to InsideLaw and LawMedia. Separate instructions are used to add existing users to sub-sites. Users without Campus IDs are to be discouraged on InsideLaw as this presents security risks to the FERPA-protected data therein. Other CoL WordPress instances are less likely to have FERPA data, so a… Read more »
Custom content and taxonomy
Custom post types (such as “externship”) are created by CCTM Custom taxa are created with the WCK – Custom Fields and Custom Post Types Creator[1] A few hard-learned points: for publish/edit/delete capabilities, on the CCTM “Advanced” tab, set only the “Capability Type” as a singular noun name and do not check “Map Meta Cap” or… Read more »
show_content at scheduled times
Schedule to show_content shortcode NOTE: BUG – causes a 502 Bad Gateway error (PHP SIGSEGV – core dumped) error is embedded within an Events Manager Pro page. Allows a section of a page to be shown on the web site only during a specified time period. Note that entire posts can be scheduled to appear with… Read more »
login_jump
login_jump[2] is used to redirect to laws.gsu.edu and log in the WordPress user into Contentor/agora Usage: [login_jump url=”http://laws.gsu.edu/agora/index/My_WebCourses”] The script adds the WordPress username and a “token” hash code that is good for 1 minute (technically it is good for 3 minutes in case the two server’s clocks are off by up to a minute.)… Read more »
Gallery shortcode
The [gallery] shortcode allows you to embed thumbnail images and captions that link to other pages. See also “The WordPress Gallery” The easiest way to implement a gallery is to insert the shortcode, [gallery] into the page, and then save the page. The WYSIWYG editor will then show a box with “No items found” Clicking… Read more »
Course Catalog Tie-in
Details gleaned from Cory’s plugin at: https://github.com/gsuAE-Doc/gsu-wordpress/pull/54/files Test page: http://corydwatson.com/work/aysps/gsu-wordpress/testing-plugin/ Pulls JSON data from: http://catalog.gsu.edu/law20142015/api/course/law_5001 List of all courses in catalog at: http://catalog.gsu.edu/law20142015/api/course/ Test script: <?php $cnt = json_decode(file_get_contents(‘http://catalog.gsu.edu/law20142015/api/course/’), true); foreach ($cnt as $elem => $val) { echo $val[’subject’] . ‘ ‘ . $val[’course_number’] . ‘ – ‘ . $val[’title’] …. Read more »
Intranet communications
For setting up a communication system on Insidelaw, I cannot find the type of communications plugin that I am envisioning. It’s really simple, so I can’t understand why it doesn’t exist. There are some “private messaging” plugins, but none are quite right. Simply put, users would be able to submit a post where they designate which… Read more »
Admits sub-site
The “Admits” site was set up to allow password-protected information for admitted students who may not have actually accepted and may not yet have a Campus ID. It uses the simple Password Protected plugin that implements a single password for the whole site (also allows admins and other logged-in users in with their password!) The password… Read more »