Last week, was a whirlwind of work. But while everyone was back in the office for a few days, Lauren and I sat down for our first solo Reclaim Today episode. Tim and Jim already have 8 episodes behind them so we needed to catch up for sure. Lauren and I jumped into a quick conversation about Spark. Now before I get into the gist of our conversation, I'm still new to using a third-party email client. I used AirMail for the past year I've been with Reclaim and before that, I used Gmail or iMail. It never really struck...Read More
Category: Blog
Archiving a Twitter Account
One of this week's episodes of Reclaim Today sparked a conversation around archiving. These episodes are always a great listen, in this particular episode, Tim and Jim were chatting about Harvard's announcement to close down blogs.harvard.edu. A highlight of this talk occurs about 9 minutes in when Tim discusses how users begin to think about taking their content with them. Jim continues the conversation, describing that the blogging platform, specifically with UMW Blogs, was intended as a point of content creation with the notion that users own their content and can take it with them when they graduate. This became, as...Read More
Messing Around with Gutenberg
A change is coming to WordPress. Don't worry! It's not as big as you think-- but it's worth noting. With the most recent version, 4.9.8, I took the opportunity to explore a little more. I think a lot of the change is coming to the post and page editors. But don't worry! If you're already overwhelmed with the change you can continue to edit a post in the normal editor. I've got you as well-- I'm going to go through some of the biggest changes and show you some tips and tricks to make the most of the Gutenberg editor....Read More
Reclaim Today
I've always enjoyed listening to Podcasts. I remember listening to some back in middle and high school, but recently I rediscovered them in college. I live about 2 and a half hours from my hometown, and my Spotify got repetitive during the many drives back and forth. I quickly locked into many series like Serial, S-Town, Anna Faris is Unqualified, and Nerdist (ID10T), to name a few. Do you all listen to any? What are some of your favorite? -- Seriously, let me know, I need more to listen to. I'm writing about Podcasts because Reclaim Hosting has taken on a...Read More
Omeka Case Studies
This week, Reclaim Hosting is running our second Workshop of One's Own, where we will work with Domain of One's Own admins to teach them about running DoOO on their campus. I've been tasked with talking through one of our most popular platforms, Omeka. While WordPress still takes the cake for the most popular applications run on our servers, Omeka has become increasingly popular. This post will dive into what Omeka is, and what you can do with the platform, and showcasing a few examples of how the platform could look when built out fully. You can read more about...Read More
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 space on the server to use them on my blog. That space can fill up quickly when you have a limited amount of space on a server too. But there is a way around this! You can use Flickr to easily embed your own images...Read More
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 school. Don't get me wrong, I loved my time at UMW but I was done with school. I was so ready to finish my degree and start working. I don't remember too much about the day, just that I was super nervous because I had...Read More
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 perfect, you only get the content of the site, so things like posts, pages, and settings on the site. The plugins, themes, and media arent' included, so, if your site has a lot of media, or has a ton of plugins, this tool might not...Read More
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 the database file in the File manager. Open up the file manager and navigate to where the site is installed, in this case, it's right in the public_html folder. The database file that's within the installation can vary depending on the application. Since this is a...Read More
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 of One's Own schools on the three parts that make up DoOO; WordPress, WHM, and WHMCS. This was our first time running a workshop in this capacity, but we want to continue to offer this to the schools we support through Domain of One's Own. I...Read More