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This Week in the OpenLab: August 20th Edition
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Well, there’s no doubt that it’s back to school time, and we want to remind you first that there are OpenLab workshops this week and next. The soonest of which are this Wednesday, the 22nd. … Continue reading this post
Connecting Existing Sites to New Projects
Before late August 2012, users could create sites that weren’t connected to a project. In the process of improving the overall organization of the OpenLab, and to keep all the wonderful work everyone is doing here visible to everyone (when the creator chooses, that is), that had to change: at this point all sites must be connected to a project.… Continue reading this post
This Week in the OpenLab: August 6th Edition
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Our own Charlie Edwards often refers to the OpenLab team as worker bees, and this month we very much are–the whole OL group, our developers and…well, everyone…are busily working away still on our major August update. … Continue reading this post
This Week in the OpenLab: July 31st Edition
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Big changes are coming, and we’re working away behind the scenes to bring you a new update on the OpenLab. Keep your eye out over the next few weeks!
Featured Site, and a REQUEST!… Continue reading this post
This Week in the OpenLab: July 24th Edition
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This week we’ve continued our Twitter Tools tutorial (say that five times fast), and concentrated on the various options settings, and you can find it here. As a reminder for those of you who might have missed last week’s installment, Twitter Tools is a way of integrating Twitter and your OpenLab site (or any WordPress site), so that your posts can be tweeted automatically as soon as you publish them. … Continue reading this post
Twitter Tools: Pt. 2 (Options)
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Twitter Tools is a way of integrating Twitter and your OpenLab site (or any WordPress site), so that your posts can be tweeted automatically as soon as you publish them. It also gives you a great deal of flexibility: you can set it to exclude certain categories, and our present installation comes with url shortening and a hashtag creator (if you don’t know what those are or why you’d need them, you’ll want first to brush up on ‘What’s Twitter?’ … Continue reading this post
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This Week In The OpenLab: July 17th Edition
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This week we thought we’d dedicate ourselves to figuring out one of our new plug-in suites, called Twitter Tools, and that led us to thinking about the wonders of twitter, etc. So this an all Twitter This Week in The OpenLab…
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First, A Brief Aside…
Of course, the bulk of our time was spent 1) looking for that hilarious picture above, 2) wasting a lot of time on twitter and, then, 3) figuring out how to use the plug-in so we could explain it here. … Continue reading this post
Twitter Tools: Part 1 (Set-Up)
Twitter Tools is a way of integrating Twitter and your OpenLab site (or any WordPress site), so that your posts can be tweeted automatically as soon as you publish them. It also gives you a great deal of flexibility: you can set it to exclude certain categories, and our present installation comes with url shortening and a hashtag creator (if you don’t know what those are or why you’d need them, you’ll want first to brush up on ‘What’s Twitter?’ … Continue reading this post
