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<div>Thanks so much Stephanie,</div>
<div>I am currently tapping into Google custom search, and testing it.</div>
<div>My goal was to use the WP builtin search, and return GCS results into a custom page that I could add additional elements to (sidebar, etc.)</div>
<div>I've got it all working, and styling with CSS and Google fonts (to match the look and feel of the site)</div>
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<div>I like this approach, because I can see what is going on through Google’s backend.</div>
<div>I don’t have a lot of data up on the testing site yet, so my results are minimal.</div>
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<div>If I have links pointing to pdfs, Google SHOULD return their results. Correct?</div>
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<div><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Richard Berardi</span></b></div>
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Marketing & Communications<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Stephanie Leary <<a href="mailto:steph@sillybean.net">steph@sillybean.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 2:23 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"Low-traffic list discussing WordPress in education." <<a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [wp-edu] Wordpress hosting with LTI integration<br>
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<div>My favorite search replacement plugin is Relevanssi, but it doesn't index media files.
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<div>SearchWP (premium, but inexpensive) does handle PDFs and has weighting systems similar to Relevanssi. Its method of creating secondary search engines (e.g. search limited to a custom post type) is more cumbersome than it needs to be, and I've been struggling
with it on a client project. In theory, it also works with FacetWP (sold separately) to display filters on your search results. In practice, this has also been challenging to configure. </div>
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<div>Wordpress.com VIP uses Elastic search. There's a plugin to help you integrate it, and a NetTuts article if you prefer going down that road. </div>
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<div>(I know the question was a month old. I've been sick and just noticed it!)</div>
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On Monday, December 29, 2014, Berardi, Richard <<a href="mailto:rberardi@georgian.edu">rberardi@georgian.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>What search solution/plugin are you using on your Wordpress site? The default WP search is lacking. Being in higher ed, we use a lot of PDFs, which the default search doesn't return. I have tried implementing Google Custom Search, but I need it to work
with the default search box - not as a widget. (I can't have the search box say "Google custom search" within the search box)</div>
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<div>Any help/advice would be appreciated.</div>
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On Nov 6, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Benjamin Harwood <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bharwood@skidmore.edu');" target="_blank">bharwood@skidmore.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>As a newcomer to LTI and WordPress, which objectives are being advanced and perhaps fulfilled by such integration? Is the goal to push WP to provide analytics feedback in reports like the performance dashboard in LMS's? Trying to better understand how
students and faculty benefit from this independent of where their data is hosted. </div>
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On Nov 6, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Mcmillan, Scott <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','scott.mcmillan@ubc.ca');" target="_blank">scott.mcmillan@ubc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>We run LTI on <a href="http://blogs.ubc.ca" target="_blank">http://blogs.ubc.ca</a> and integrated to Blackboard .</div>
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<div>It's just a plugin. I think any host that allows you to install plugins and run Multisite you are good to go with.</div>
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<div>WPEngine might be worth checking out?</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Hi David,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">From what I’ve been reading Rackspace does not support wildcat subdomains, which means you’ll need to use sub-directories for mu, but if you’re leaning towards them, ask about that. Other cloud hosting services
I’ve heard about include Amazon’s EC2 (<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/" target="_blank">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/</a>) and
<a href="http://vps.net" target="_blank">vps.net</a>, but this is only from what I’ve read and not from experience.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">Hillary Meister, M.Ed.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">Web Coordinator</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">GSU College of Education</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);">30 Pryor Street<br>
Georgia State University<br>
Atlanta, GA 30303-3083</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#002060"><a href="http://education.gsu.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">http://education.gsu.edu/</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 32, 96);"><image001.png> 404-413-8112</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> wp-edu [<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com');" target="_blank">mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Grogan, David<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 08, 2014 9:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> '<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wp-edu@lists.automattic.com');" target="_blank">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [wp-edu] Wordpress hosting with LTI integration</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello WP-Edu-ers,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are looking at integrating WordPress more tightly with our LMS via LTI (<a href="http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal">Although we have our own internally hosted multisite instance that allows any of our users to serve themselves with new WP sites we are looking at cloud hosting that would provide the LTI integration.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone have any experience with commercial WordPress hosters and/or LTI? If so any info you have would be appreciated.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Solutions Specialist</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Educational & Scholarly Technology Services (ESTS) Tufts Technology Service (TTS) Tufts University</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">108 Bromfield Rd</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: 617.627.2859</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fax: 617.627.3082</p>
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