August 11-14
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Doug Provencio is a writer and editor in San Francisco. See more...-
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- Keyring, an authentication engine to power importing of social media into WordPress: http://t.co/e3tqX0Tx 1 month ago
- RT @jimcaple: Some great Jamie Moyer trivia. According to Elias, he has pitched to eight percent of hitters in major league history. 1 month ago
- RT @nacin: WordPress filed an issue upstream with @jQueryUI, which sent it upstream to @GruntJS. Bug fixed in under 2 hours. Yay collabo ... 1 month ago
- RT @tralition: Excellent recap of the SF Bay #Contentstrategy Meetup with @mbloomstein and @sara_ann_marie: http://t.co/jPlIAfoX 1 month ago
- RT @NEAToday: It's National Library Week! Get info & free resources at http://t.co/It8lcOaz #nlw12 1 month ago
- RT @nacin: In which @markjaquith makes an elaborate Inception joke in a commit message. http://t.co/Cs7QfQdo 1 month ago
- RT @pjadavies: This is how 16% of the internet is made folks: “@rboren: Couple of beers on the porch and then WordPress 3.4 Beta 1, meth ... 1 month ago
- “@suiteseven: @mbloomstein - Content strategists have [been] always scrappy: "hey guys, whatcha working' on?" clawing our ways to the table" 1 month ago
- Went to San Francisco #contentstrategy meetup tonight 2 hear @mbloomstein (Content Strategy at Work) & @sara_ann_marie (Content Everywhere) 1 month ago
- RT @BrainTraffic: Confused about metadata and taxonomies? FRET NOT. @itscmb is here to hold your hand and walk you through it. So gently ... 1 month ago
Category Archives: Samples
Small Words in Help Tabs
The WordPress help tabs rely on educated bets about what people will need at a quick glance, and where they will need it. To see this, look at the two admin screens where a new or newish user is most … Continue reading
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Pocket Philosophy of Contextual Help
Crafting varied, mostly small updates to the help tabs for WordPress 3.1 feels like a slow motion race against time. Iterations of the Beta version need to be in place to see what help text needs revising; any revising must … Continue reading
WordPress Help Tabs
I’m currently working on updating some help tabs for WordPress 3.1, about to go into Beta. See Trac Ticket #15346 (Contextual Help Tabs Cleanup) with patches I’ve submitted for individual dashboard screens. For background on WordPress help tabs: Codex article … Continue reading
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Tagged contextual help, help authoring, php, WordPress
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My First Book
Standing in Your Shoes: A Checklist for Classroom and Substitute Teachers by Doug Provencio Standing in Your Shoes prepares educators for that inevitable day when a substitute teacher takes charge of the classroom. This unique book speaks to a dual … Continue reading
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Magazine Article
“Who Are You Today: Adventures in Substitute Teaching,” a piece I wrote for the magazine NEA Today
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