Tag Archives: API

Jailbreaking WordPress with Web hooks

By Joss Winn | Published: October 6, 2009
As is often the case, I struggle at first glance to see the full implications of a new development in technology, which is why I so often rely on others to kick me up the arse before I get it.1 Where I ramble about WordPress as a learning tool for the web… I first read about web [...]
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Scholarly publishing with WordPress

By Joss Winn | Published: August 25, 2009
Working on the JISCPress project, I’ve been thinking quite a lot about scholarly publishing on the web, and in particular with WordPress. This morning, I read a post over on the ArchivePress blog about some WordPress plugins which are useful additions for creating a scholarly blog and it got me thinking a bit more about [...]
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Ten reasons why you should pay attention to the geeks because actually they have something quite important to say which us non-geeky people should be listening to

By Joss Winn | Published: August 1, 2009
Re-broadcasting Mike Ellis’ recent presentation… Don't Think Websites, think data View more documents from Mike Ellis.
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Scriblio, Triplify and XMPP PubSub

By Joss Winn | Published: May 17, 2009
It occured to me this morning, as I woke from my slumber, that the work I’ve been doing recently with WordPress, could also be applied to a library catalogue using Scriblio. Scriblio (formerly WPopac) is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a [...]
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