Archbishop of Canterbury News Archive Move – Freelance Project Manager

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I project managed the transfer of a news archive with 350+ posts from an defunct proprietary CMS to a new Drupal website. Working to a very tight deadline, I moved all news items 2015-2017 on The Archbishop of Canterbury’s website site, managing two data entry freelancers. The project included creating equivalent meta tags, navigation and…Continue reading Archbishop of Canterbury News Archive Move – Freelance Project Manager

Liturgy Archive Project – Church House Publishing

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I project managed the creation of an 800 page archive of reference material for a Drupal website, using HTML extracted from 350 epub files and 300 images. Working to specifications from a variety of stakeholders and around complex technical obstacles I built the worship text and resources section of the award winning Church of England…Continue reading Liturgy Archive Project – Church House Publishing

Removing button names etc from a list of blogs/files/emails copied from a website (Gedit, Fedora)

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Often if I have copied a list of blogs, files or emails from an app or website, where there is no export function, button names such as “Edit” and “Delete” will copy over. Often in a small list of items there will be several repeated junk phrases for each item of text I actually need.…Continue reading Removing button names etc from a list of blogs/files/emails copied from a website (Gedit, Fedora)

Quickly removing date/time stamps from a text file using find and replace (Gedit, Fedora)

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I have been writing a lot recently about little obstacles I have come across while helping the Church of England move content from their old sites to their new ones. Making a list of all the content to be moved is often the first job, but many of the older/proprietary platforms don’t have the ability…Continue reading Quickly removing date/time stamps from a text file using find and replace (Gedit, Fedora)

Removing every other line, or every nth line, from a list using LibreOffice Calc

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This is particularly useful when working with lists copied and pasted from withing software (like WordPress or Drupal). Perhaps you are making a list of blogs you have written or you want to check the order of a menu: often when you copy this data you get spare bits of html such as button names…Continue reading Removing every other line, or every nth line, from a list using LibreOffice Calc

Removing some text items e.g. files with certain extension, from a list in Libreoffice using COUNTIF

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I am currently doing some work for the Church of England, moving and improving the repository of liturgy to their new website. There are a lot of files involved so using shortcuts for sorting out data and lists is vital. Removing unneeded items from a list Today I was working with an export of a…Continue reading Removing some text items e.g. files with certain extension, from a list in Libreoffice using COUNTIF

Removing double line breaks in a text editor on Linux (Fedora)

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While copy-pasting an index from a website to a spreadsheet (google sheet) recently, I found several annoying points of formatting: Each item was an html link, which could not be easily removed in bulk The items were “double spaced” using two new lines after each item. I found the easiest way to remove this formatting…Continue reading Removing double line breaks in a text editor on Linux (Fedora)

Allow your contributors to upload a profile picture to WordPress without using Gravatar

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There are lots of benefits to contributors uploading a profile picture (also known as an Avatar) to your WordPress site: it makes it clearer who is writing each blog, it helps the writer feel part of your site, it makes your site more personable and friendly which helps your readers to engage more. WordPress, by…Continue reading Allow your contributors to upload a profile picture to WordPress without using Gravatar