Jan Boddez on I don’t actually use YouTube a whole lot, but I’ve absolutely stolen Marty McGuire’s idea for “owning your ‘Watch Later’ list.” Here’s the approach I came up with. Continue reading Owning My Watch Later List →
Jan Boddez on 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 →
Jan Boddez on 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 →
Jan Boddez on 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 →
Jan Boddez on 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 →
Jan Boddez on 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 →
Jan Boddez on 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 →
Jan Boddez on I’ve again changed the way certain Post Types’ slugs are being generated. Continue reading Truly Random Post Slugs →
Jan Boddez on Notes—very short posts that normally don’t have a title—on this site sport URLs that end in a short, numerical “slug.” Each such slug is generated automatically (with a little help of Optimus), based on the post’s database ID, and thus unique. Continue reading (Seemingly) Random Post Slugs →
Jan Boddez on Dequeuing a WordPress theme’s Google Fonts stylesheet—the trick we previously used to remove the call to Google’s font-loading service—doesn’t mean we can’t use custom web fonts anymore. In fact, we can simply add a fonts stylesheet of our own. Continue reading Self-Host WordPress “Google Fonts” →
Jan Boddez on I’ve only just now added PHP_CodeSniffer support to my code editor of choice and WordPress projects. Here’s how. Continue reading Set Up Visual Studio Code for WordPress Development →
Jan Boddez on Worried about sending traffic to Google’s servers, for privacy or other reasons? Well, then! Using a really basic child theme—you really shouldn’t modify theme files directly, as your changes won’t survive security and other updates!—let’s remove at least one call to Google Fonts from your WordPress website. Continue reading Remove Google Fonts from a WordPress Theme →
Jan Boddez on Inspired by the many colorful, Carbon-generated images of source code, I sat down and created Source Snap, a pure PHP Featured Image generator in WordPress plugin form. Continue reading Colorful Source Code Images →
Jan Boddez on Corcel is a Laravel package that greatly simplifies pulling data from a WordPress database. Using it feels somewhat like—and at the same time completely different from—using WP_Query. One thing I—a rather inexperienced Laravel user—struggled a bit with, though, is fetching posts by Post Format. Here’s how it’s done. Continue reading WordPress Post Formats in Corcel →
Jan Boddez on 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 →