On this other WordPress-powered site of mine, I’ve been using the following Akismet alternative to effectively fight Contact Form 7 spam: a combination of a honeypot and WordPress’s built-in blocklist. Continue reading Fight Contact Form 7 Spam →
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 →
I’ve added a Notes section to this blog. ‘Notes’—not unlike my longer ‘articles’—are simply WordPress posts, but carry a ‘status’ Post Format. What’s more, though, is that as soon as I hit publish, they’ll also appear on Mastodon and Twitter (a form of POSSE). Continue reading A Notes Section →
What if you wanted to use Jetpack’s social menu feature and add links to your Mastodon and Pixelfed profiles—platforms Jetpack’s social menu doesn’t currently support—and not have them accompanied by an ugly, generic anchor icon? Continue reading Extend Jetpack’s SVG Icons →
A while ago, I created a very small WordPress plugin that adds a Post Format filter to the WP Admin Posts Screen and—unlike the 7-year-old plugin it was inspired by—also allows filtering out ‘Standard’ posts. Continue reading A Post Format Filter Plugin →
Long story short, I decided to try and create my own ‘Lightbox for WordPress’ implementation. After all, how hard can it be to load a few scripts and make sure everything’s properly initialized? Continue reading Lightbox for WordPress →