NOTE: 3/10/2015 – Found that the University has re-configured their server to deny access to the cached notification page: “Forbidden – You don’t have permission to access /wp-content/cache/rave-alert/index.html on this server.” Disabled the cron job – no time for such games. {ead} Notices that are displayed on gsu.edu are retrieved (once every 2 minutes), cached, and… Read more »
Posts Categorized: WordPress/InsideLaw
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 »
Accordion
Accordion short codes (updated 3/28/14)[1] Use: [accordion][item title=”title1″] tab content [/item][item title=”title2″] another content tab [/item][/accordion] In the editor drop-down selector, “Accordion group” and “Accordion item” are under category “layout” “Accordion group” puts in the [accordion][/accordion] tags “Accordion item” puts in the [item title=”title1″] tab content [/item] content You can embed more than one group per page,… Read more »
Other miscellaneous sites
Perhaps merge into our WordPress instances? http://gsulawfaculty.com/ http://gsulawtech.wordpress.com/ – to insidelaw (?/technology?) http://gsulawalumni.wordpress.com/ – merge to law? and combine http://lawalum.gsu.edu/ – basically nothing but Class Actions http://theblackacretimes.com/ to lawlibrary.gsu.edu? http://investoradvocacyclinic.wordpress.com/ http://gsuip.org/ – now redirects to law Bleckley Inn of Court http://law.gsu.edu/FutureOfLegalEducationConference/ (oops, broken as of 2/25/15) – Cunningham (?move to his sites.gsu.edu site?) Phase 2 (?) http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/podcast/ – needs “keepers” selected and… 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 »
list_all_shortcodes
Simple shortcode to list all defined shortcodes [list_all_shortcodes] This must be embedded in a page on the site that you want the short codes from! For example, see all the shortcodes on the main InsideLaw site The first column is the short code that goes into the page, the second column is internal techo-babble -… Read more »
embed_menu
Places a navigation menu anywhere on a page. You can specify a menu by it’s name or ID number: [embed_menu] [embed_menu menu=”my_menu”] [embed_menu menu=13] ID number can be seen by going to “Appearance” -> “Menus” -> “Select a menu to edit:” and check the /” dummy=”menu=## in the address [embed_menu] without specifying which one shows… Read more »
Groups File Access
Groups File Access WordPress Plugin www.itthinx.com SEE: http://www.itthinx.com/documentation/groups-file-access/ Groups File Access WordPress plugin Copyright (c) www.itthinx.com LICENSE RESTRICTIONS This plugin is provided subject to the license granted. Unauthorized use and distribution is prohibited. See COPYRIGHT.txt and LICENSE.txt. This plugin relies on code that is NOT licensed under the GNU General Public License. Files licensed under… Read more »