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Behind the build
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Online courses for every belt in Dojo Manager
How our karate school’s 14 day training challenges moved from a WordPress course plugin into Dojo Manager, with lessons that unlock for each belt.
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Turning a one-site importer into a plugin for any site
How a Claude-to-WordPress importer built for one site became AccessNow Instant Import, and learned to move pages off Thrive and Elementor.
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Who can do what: staff access in Dojo Manager
How Dojo Manager lets a dojo owner decide what each staff member can do: presets for the usual roles, tickboxes per job, and money…
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Full classes and waitlists in Dojo Manager
How Dojo Manager handles full classes: a fair rule for places, a waitlist that books the next person, cancelled classes and late cancellations.
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Grading in Dojo Manager: from invitation to new belt
Who’s ready, invitations, fees, theory tests on screen or paper, belt sizes and promotions: a first look at grading in Dojo Manager before launch.
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AccessNow Learn: a block theme for course sites
AccessNow Learn is a free WordPress block theme for course sites: lesson headers that change by unit, four styles, and a menu visitors use…
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Building a guitar course to show off my LMS
A free beginner’s guitar course, built to show off a WordPress LMS: research, a tuner that never phones home, and the five bugs a…
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Five things my LMS needed before launch
Blocks, finding students by name, spreadsheet export, quiz explanations and screen reader support: the five things my WordPress LMS needed before launch.
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What a review of my WordPress LMS Plug-in found
A line-by-line review of my WordPress LMS plugin found finished students locked out, blank answers marked right, and no way for other plugins to…
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Letting people test my games before they’re out
Handing out test versions of an Android game is easy. Taking them back is the hard part. How my games now switch their own…
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Teaching a help desk Japanese, French and German
My karate app runs in four languages, but its help desk spoke one. What it took to translate it, from Japanese search to screenshots…
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Moving off a page builder: our karate school’s rebuild
How we moved our karate school’s site off the Thrive page builder: what we replaced, how we kept every address, what nearly went wrong,…
