Using Flickr to embed images
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. It can help illustrate a point you’re trying to make, how you felt at a particular moment or provide something to look at while you’re giving a presentation. I mainly use images to break up the writing on my posts. Using images means that I’m taking up […]
1 Year with Reclaim
January 30th, 2017, the day that I started as an intern at Reclaim Hosting. Which, at the time of writing this, it was 1 year ago to the day (plus 1). How crazy is that? A year ago I was a second-semester senior, itching to get out in the real world and be done with […]
Using the Import/Export Tools in WordPress
Lately, I’ve been working with clients to move their website from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. With this request, I use the Import/Export tools to move the content from one site to the other. This tool bundles the content on the site into a .zip file which you can then move to another location. Disclaimer: It isn’t […]
Fixing a Database Connection Error: WordPress
When the site throws the error: Error establishing a database connection, this usually means there is miscommunication between the database and the files in the file manager. What I like to do from here is open up the Files and Tables section in Installatron. You’re going to compare the four sections in red to […]
Reclaiming NYC
The first team trip, for me, was one for the books! This was definitely a lot of fun and a great way for us to regroup before the end of the year, and the perfect time to reflect on Workshop of One’s Own. WoOO is a two-day workshop that Reclaim hosts, to introduce and train our Domain […]
Deja Vu
I had a complete moment of deja vu on Friday and I have no idea why. Reclaim is putting on a workshop next week called Workshop of Own’s One. We are showing some Domain of One’s Own administrators from a few schools an in-depth look at supporting DoOO. This past week was full of research and […]
Setting Up a Feed with Feedly
Working at Reclaim means I get to interact with people who do incredible work within the Ed Tech community. I was first exposed to this at #domains17 and I remember thinking that I wanted to keep up with all of these wonderful folks and the work their doing. At first, I had no idea how I could […]
Working by Myself
So today was a first for me in my support role. I started my shift bright and early this morning and everything was moving slow. Tim and Lauren went off to a meeting and Jim is traveling this week for a conference, so I was by handling support on my own for a short period of […]
Lifeguarding Lessons
That’s a wrap on the summer! We’ve officially hit fall as September has breezed past us. The weather here in VA wants to hold on to every last bit of summer though (I can’t complain). I thought I’d do some reflecting on my summer jobs as a lifeguard in Virginia Beach. Granted, my summer has […]
Repairing a Crashed Table in phpMyAdmin
Yesterday, a ticket came in where a student’s website was not establishing a database connection. I started my usual checks to see what kind of installation she had on her domain. In this case it was a WordPress installation. I went to double check that the username and password in the wp-config.php file was the […]