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Yoast and Rank Math: WordPress Plugins for SEO

One of the first questions people ask after they get settled into OU Create with a working WordPress site is how to set up search engine optimization (SEO).

October 14, 2020 · 1 min · John Stewart

You don’t need Wix: Use WordPress Elementor

Here at OU, we provide every student, faculty, and staff member with webhosting and a free URL through OU Create. We’re hoping to build digital literacy by giving students the chance to build…

January 27, 2020 · 3 min · John Stewart
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WordPress migration tip

This is largely a note to myself, but I hope it will be useful for anyone else who helps to administer a Domain of One’s Own project. I get a lot of requests from OU Create users to migrate a…

July 9, 2019 · 3 min · John Stewart

Getting Started with WordPress in OU Create

It’s back to school season, and for me that means helping students and faculty set up websites. The Office of Digital Learning at the University of Oklahoma provides a service called OU Creat…

September 5, 2018 · 7 min · John Stewart

Visualizing Connections in the Sea of Information

Between podcasts, newspapers, blogs, journals, books, and video, I have access to far more media than I could possibly consume. Rather than having to search

October 24, 2017 · 3 min · John Stewart

Persistent Student Writing

I have written before about my dislike for disposable writing assignments in college courses. Like math homework, they serve a purpose in having students

June 14, 2016 · 3 min · John Stewart

Using Reclaim Hosting’s Server Status API in WordPress

I am extremely excited about a server status page that I just published for OU Create. The page simply displays the current status, operational or otherwise, of the two Reclaim Hosting servers that…

February 25, 2016 · 3 min · John Stewart

Embedding WordPress in D2L

One of the main limitations for learning management systems is that many are constructed as silos, hiding the course contents from anyone not enrolled in the class. This limitation encouraged me an…

January 27, 2016 · 2 min · John Stewart

My first plugin

*The opensource code for the BadgeOS_Slack integration plugin can be found at the OUDigilearn GitHub site: In my office (the University of Oklahoma’s Center for Teaching Excellence), we use …

August 28, 2015 · 5 min · John Stewart