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3 campaigners, 6 years, 7 schools: Building Tomorrow

Cross-posted from my EchoDitto blog. How much did your elementary education cost? The clever folks at Building Tomorrow have found a great way to use that simple question to drive an innovative campaign that connects the costs of a primary school education in the United States to the work they do building schools in Uganda.Read More…

Updating your Drupal site using Drush

A few weeks ago, Alan wrote about how to find out if your Drupal and Wordpress sites are up to date. So, what if you find out your Drupal site is horribly out of date – core, modules and all? What then?
If you run the script Alan wrote about, or you si…

Making Drupal Happy: When Themes and Modules use the same name

We came across an issue with a site recently, where the name of the custom module file was the same as the name of the theme. So, for example, if the theme name was Bork, the module name was bork.module. This can cause a variety of problems since the t…

Customizing ShareThis WordPress plugin

I wrote about this on my personal blog after realizing that having the ShareThis links at the end of my blog posts might actually prevent them from being shared as much, assuming that most people won’t read the posts in their entirety (sad, but probabl…

Twitter by any other name

The other day, The Washington Post advised its journalists NOT to engage with their readers on Twitter. Mashable reported that a memo was sent to staffers specifically telling journalists not to use their Post Twitter accounts to respond to critics, or…

WordPress Stylesheets: wp_enqueue_style

If you’re building a Wordpress plugin, or simply dealing with including Wordpress stylesheets in your theme, there are a few approaches you can take. For the most part, I’ve included stylesheets for Wordpress sites in header.php, since (obviously), hea…

Making your Community Matter

Sometimes, when I’m working on a project, I tend to read or say the name of the project so many times that it loses meaning. Community Matters, Community Matters, Community Matters.
But then, suddenly, the project comes to fruition. It’s not just a pr…