Comments on: Common Sense: So Seldom Common http://www.itsananderson.com/2008/11/common-sense-so-seldom-common/ Designer and Programmer Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:05:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Will http://www.itsananderson.com/2008/11/common-sense-so-seldom-common/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Will Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:55:28 +0000 http://www.itsananderson.com/?p=229#comment-51 Hey thanks for the comment! While I'd love to see Rose do a wholesale switch, it'll probably be a while before it's really a possibility. One big issue I've been running into lately is the fact that content pasted out of MS Word into WordPress looses most of its formatting. My solution is not to use MS Word to create the pages, but to create them directly in TinyMCE. Unfortunately, this requires people to learn to use a new tool, which may be difficult to get people to accept at an institute level. I'm currently running a plugin I wrote for the contacts in the sidebar. That used to be hard coded into the template, but I created a widget to replace it so that it could be updated without editing any code. I've also got an analytics plugin running as well as "My-Page-Order" to allow drag and drop page ordering (though I don't really care for the way it does this, and I hope to create an improved replacement at some point). I'm also testing some navigation plugins and a page specific custom widget plugin I've been working on, but those aren't running on the main site currently. Thanks for the post suggestion. That could be fun! I think maybe I'll contrast the plugins I'm using on my site versus the ones I've installed on the IRPA site. Hey thanks for the comment! While I’d love to see Rose do a wholesale switch, it’ll probably be a while before it’s really a possibility. One big issue I’ve been running into lately is the fact that content pasted out of MS Word into WordPress looses most of its formatting. My solution is not to use MS Word to create the pages, but to create them directly in TinyMCE. Unfortunately, this requires people to learn to use a new tool, which may be difficult to get people to accept at an institute level.

I’m currently running a plugin I wrote for the contacts in the sidebar. That used to be hard coded into the template, but I created a widget to replace it so that it could be updated without editing any code. I’ve also got an analytics plugin running as well as “My-Page-Order” to allow drag and drop page ordering (though I don’t really care for the way it does this, and I hope to create an improved replacement at some point). I’m also testing some navigation plugins and a page specific custom widget plugin I’ve been working on, but those aren’t running on the main site currently.

Thanks for the post suggestion. That could be fun! I think maybe I’ll contrast the plugins I’m using on my site versus the ones I’ve installed on the IRPA site.

]]> By: Nick Ohrn http://www.itsananderson.com/2008/11/common-sense-so-seldom-common/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Nick Ohrn Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:44:09 +0000 http://www.itsananderson.com/?p=229#comment-50 Nice article, thanks for pointing it out. Have you managed to convince Rose that they should wholesale switch to WP for content management yet? One of my biggest clients uses WP (an older version, unfortunately, but lobbying for an upgrade) to manage their huge, huge site. 1M+ pageviews/month. What have you found are the most useful WP plugins you've used for the RHIT site? You should do a post on it. Nice article, thanks for pointing it out. Have you managed to convince Rose that they should wholesale switch to WP for content management yet? One of my biggest clients uses WP (an older version, unfortunately, but lobbying for an upgrade) to manage their huge, huge site. 1M+ pageviews/month.

What have you found are the most useful WP plugins you’ve used for the RHIT site? You should do a post on it.

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