I have some eight so-called must-use plugins in my WordPress install’s “mu-plugins” folder, and use them as an alternative to “functions.php” (which is where most online guides still tell people to add custom bits of PHP). Continue reading Must-Use Plugins →
Rather than follow one of the many tutorials out there and use a custom page template and WP_Query, let’s look at rewrite rules and some “easy” filtering. Continue reading Custom WordPress Archives →
… and can use a built-in hook instead. Continue reading You Don’t Need an SMTP Plugin for WordPress →
Jetpack, turns out, will append geolocation data—if present—to your posts. Continue reading Prevent Jetpack From Displaying Geolocation Data →
Here’s a pattern I was only vaguely aware of, until recently. Continue reading Globally Set an Option in PHP →
With Micropub image uploads working, I thought it’d be nice to just make the first uploaded image the Featured Image. Continue reading WordPress, Micropub and Featured Images →
I’m often the first to want to somehow modify the behavior of my own WordPress plugins. I also, however, prefer small plugins that do one thing well instead of bloated plugins that are pure hell to maintain. The solution? Hooks! Continue reading Keeping My WordPress Blogroll in Sync With More Than One OPML Endpoint →
I’ve only now started using my Microsub server’s Notifications channel. Here’s how I’m pushing a new notification to it everytime I receive a new webmention on my blog. Continue reading Sending Webmention Notifications to My Social Reader →
One of the many things Micropub offers, is a way to indicate which other platforms posts should be syndicated to. Here’s how I’ve made Micropub’s syndication targets work with the plugin I use to crosspost to Mastodon. Continue reading Micropub, Syndication Targets, and Crossposting to Mastodon →
I mostly use Indigenous, on Android, and Micropub to post “Tweetstorm-like” status threads to this blog. Like, I’ll post a note, navigate to it, post a reply, and so on. Using a fairly simple WordPress hook, I can crosspost these complete threads to Mastodon, too. Continue reading “Tootstorms” using Micropub and Share on Mastodon →
If you’re running WordPress and use the wonderful IndieAuth plugin to issue tokens for all of your IndieWeb services, here’s how you can automatically invalidate—destroy, in fact—these tokens. Continue reading Automatically Destroy IndieAuth Tokens →
I was looking for a way to easily import feeds into Aperture, actually, and then I realized it’s not hard at all to add an export endpoint instead. Continue reading Adding an OPML Endpoint to My Aperture Instance →
If your WordPress admin interface lives at a domain that’s different from your actual site’s, make sure to add the former to the “allowed redirect hosts.” If you don’ t, you’ll get redirected to the admin dashboard way more often than needed, e.g., after running some kind of action, rather than stay on the settings or tools page the request originated from. Continue reading Allow WordPress to Redirect to … Itself →
I decided to have a look at how WordPress generates its increasingly rare pingback “previews.” The result is a somewhat ugly PHP function that, given an HTML string and target URL, returns the link text, plus some of the text surrounding it. Continue reading Adding Some Context to (Web)mentions →
Sometime last year, I wrote a (rather opinionated) plugin that automatically shares WordPress posts on Mastodon. While the Settings page lets you choose which posts will be POSSE’d, most “customizing” is made possible through filter hooks. Continue reading Customize “Share on Mastodon” Statuses →