There are often times when you’ll want to add an iframe element to your site. Many services offer cool widgets that come as iframes. Unfortunately iframes are also a bit dangerous, they are like windows into other websites which could be like windows into terrible alternate dimensions! For that reason WordPress is designed not to allow …
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Send Copy of Form to Submitter using Gravity Forms
The ALC Network website provides every sub website with a powerful plugin called Gravity Forms. It allows users to create forms that appear on any page (or widget). ALCs use these forms to process enrollment, as contact forms, and to track student activities such as off-site learning. Today I’m going to show you how to …
Getting Started with Page Builder
The ALC Network relies heavily on a modified version of Theme Foundry’s Make theme. The front page of my site and the network home page both use the Page Builder “template”. This post will cover the basics of using the ALC General Theme (which is based on Make). You can learn more about the theme from Theme Foundry’s …
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 …
Blogging on behalf of students
I wanted to write up a quick post about posting to this website. Sometimes we, as facilitators, help our students publish their blogs. Maybe they write them in a text document and ask us to perform the technical task of publishing them or perhaps we type as they dictate. However it happens here is a …
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 …
Look at these awesome ALC websites!
I just wanted to show off some of the awesome websites in our network. At the bottom I’ll talk a little bit about the tools that these web sites use. ALC Mosaic (alcmosaic.org) The Mosaic School’s site is clean and bold content. There are a lot of pages but it doesn’t feel overwhelming. I did …
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 …