Aaron Davis (Read Write Collect)I find the whole ‘HyperDocs‘ thing interesting Stephen. I think that the online nature of GSuite has led to the association. However, as Alan Levine has shown with thinks like SplotPoint, the answer does not always have to be Google. The challenge is the ease of use, especially in regards to the...
I’ve read a bit about Hyperdocs over the last few years. It has never made complete sense to me, it seems to be trying to recreate webpages with google documents.
I wonder if https://glitch.com might point to a better way? It certainly would solve the template problem…
Good point John, spaces like Glitch and GitHub do provide different possibilities.
Aaron, thinking a bit more about this, the Hyperdocs concept seems like a great idea, but the idea of using ‘documents’ instead of webpages feels wrong. I thought of glitch (Which has nice version control provided by git, not giit hub) as it has a friendly remix button. You do get into complicated territory, seeing assists, html, styles and js files to kick off. I started imagining a glitch with a WYSIWYG editor. Then I wondered about WordPress, would it be easy to have remix post button that would add to the clipboard the contents of the post. On one site I run I’ve got a ‘duplicate this post’ plugin. I imagine it would be possible, on a multi-site, to have a button that could be added to a post that would clone the post to a draft on the viewers own blog… Might be one for @cogdog
I honestly cannot easily follow the whole disparate mico discussions here, but like you am not sure what HyperDocs are being someone describing the web itself. And I’m not keen at all about resting my plans on something the Google might just dump one day.
You are talking about something that would bring in another post into your site as something to remix/edit? Wasn’t that the Mike Caulfield Wikity thing? Or the bookmarklet thing WordPress had to reblog?
I’m intrigued too by glitch but pretty much imagine the whole concept and interface will make most people shy away.
@cogdog is not sure what the ask is…
Hi Alan,
The indieweb bouncing around can be a bit confusing.
I was thinking of a sort of SPLOT tool for a multisite that you might be interested in.
Basically a button you could add to a post that would allow viewers to clone that post to their own site.( It sounds like Tom has a good starter).
It could be used by a teacher to give a template to a pupil which they would then edit.
A wee bit of blue sky on a holiday.
Here’s a functional demo.
Not perfect but I think it works pretty well based on some rough testing.
Activate it in a site in a WP network and it should give you a drop down list of the sites you have admin rights to. You can clone that post to the blog you choose.
With some more effort, I’ll have it go to the destination site etc. but I figured I’d see if this was close before doing too much more.
Many thanks Tom, looks like a very useful plugin. YouTube video looks good too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXrZU04ZIQc
It might also be one for Tom Woodward too
Yup! Aaron, Tom picked up the conversation on twitter, wrote a plugin to get started. I’ve put my 2 pence worth of code in too, discussion & links: http://bionicteaching.com/multisite-post-forker-the-jolly-brancher/#comments
That is for sure possible via plugin on multisite – you’d just have to do a switch_to_blog codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions…