As the ALC Network expands into communities with different languages it is becoming necessary to translate our content to serve those communities. To accomplish this I’ve installed the polylang plugin which gives any network site the ability to configure multiple languages to display pages in. Most of our network level pages are created using the Make …
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Bash Script for committing plugin updates to WordPress
I’m lazy. Talk to anyone who programs and they will tell you the same (or they will lie to you). Programming is the art of lazy people who want to not do things over and over. I look at almost every task I do on the computer and think “could I automate this?” because: lazy. …
Introducing the ALC Tuition Sliding Scale Plugin!
I’m happy to announce version 0.1 of the ALC Tuition Sliding Scale Plugin. This plugin, adapted from code written by ALC NYC parent @geva, allows anyone to place a sliding scale on their website! Here’s a working example: How it works You can add a slider into any section of your site using the WordPress shortcode: …
Updates to ALF newbie page and a new Branding page
Instead of a blog post, I got sucked into working on Agile website content. It started with a really fast work session with @liam where we updated the ALF Slack to match our implemented proposal from last ∆-Up meeting. Then I somehow got sucked into creating a whole branding guidelines page after stumbling on Slack.com’s …
Online Community Guidelines
I’ve been trying to gather feedback for a card on the ALF Community Mastery Board: I feel like it isn’t being taken serious largely due to the amazing community we have who operate from a place of trust, respect, and understanding. It doesn’t feel like a big deal to define agreements because if something comes up we …
In the Flow, My Week in Reflection
What an amazing week! I’ve been in Asheville NC visiting the Endor ALC crew. I was housed by two amazing collective homes full of wonderful and amazing people who kept me well fed and in good company. I spent most of my time co-working with @liam and @rochellehudson which fueled one of my most productive weeks …
Adding Editors to Your Blog
If you want other people to be able to edit pages on your site you first need to add them to your site and set their privileges to give them editing access. Each user on your site is tied to their main user account, so if they have an account on the ALC site then …
Privacy on our website
There has been a discussion about blogging on the All ALF’s email list recently and it touched on blog privacy. I wanted to write an outline of what your options are in terms of privacy when it comes to this site. First of all as a general rule, anything you put on the internet can …