create a directory or list using custom fields

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In addition to my teaching duties, I am webmaster for the Department of English at UAB. One of the goals for the department web site is to offer our majors more information about upcoming courses at registration, in particular detailed and specific descriptions instead of the generic copy found in the university catalog. This could be handled in at least two ways in WordPress. The simplest would be to create a post for each course and assign a tag or category to all course description posts. The listing would be accessed through a standard archive page for that tag or category. Simple–but not particularly useful, because most of the important information, such as instructor,...

The Dangers of bcc

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don’t think you need a strong password?

Just in case you thought that strong passwords and an understanding of phishing aren’t necessary: It wasn’t immediately clear how hackers broke into Palin’s Yahoo! account, but it would have been possible to trick the service into revealing her password knowing personal details about Palin that include her birth date and ZIP code. A hacker also might have sent a forged e-mail to her account tricking her into revealing her… Continue...

Test of really, really long post

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Online Persona Undermines Job Search

The New York Times details the problems caused for job-seeking college graduates when they give no thought to their online personas. Continue...

Test Post with Multiple Paragraphs and Some Lists

An example post that includes multiple paragraphs, a block quote, an unordered list, and multiple tags. Continue...

WhatsItsColor.com

WhatsItsColor.com: “Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image’s primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.” (via Lifehacker) Continue →