So, as promised, a blog post on how to—or rather, one way to—set up IndieBlocks. (I will eventually move this site to WordPress proper, and a block theme, and so on. Maybe I should’ve done that instead. Anyway, this is quicker.) Configuring WordPress Okay, so I’ve set up the build.boddez.net subdomain and installed WordPress core. I also installed IndieBlocks, and I’m using Twenty Twenty-Three as a theme. I then went and created a “Home,” an “About,” and an “Articles” pag… Continue reading Building a Block-Based Microblog →
Quick recap, mostly just for me: In the classic editor, you have a custom meta box. You hit “Save,” “Publish,” “Update,” etc., it will submit the page; on the back end, you now have access to the various $_POST variables and can use them to update, e.g., (custom) post meta (“custom fields”). Easy peasy. With Gutenberg (the “block editor”), actual meta boxes are a bit of a hack. Because (on “post submit,” for instance) differ… Continue reading WordPress’ Block Editor and Custom Post Meta →
Notes were supposed to be mostly plain-text, short bits of text. Not a thought exercise in and of itself. Yet … here we are. I think what I’m trying to say is that microformats are simple, but not easy. Continue reading Note and Like Microformats →
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 →
It’s been exactly 3 days since I released the Feed Reader plugin for WordPress, and a first vulnerability has already been discovered … in 2007. Continue reading False Positive →
I, uh, created a very simple, and very proof-of-concept, WordPress plugin that lets site admins run YAML data through a template, and spits out the outcome. Continue reading WordPress and YAML →
If you were to install IndieBlocks on top of a fresh WordPress site, it’d give you short-form post types, microformats, and the ability to send and receive webmentions. Continue reading IndieBlocks v0.3.4 →
A little while ago, I switched from WordPress to ClassicPress (and back). While on ClassicPress, though, I needed something other than Jetpack’s Markdown module to render my “Notes” to good ol’ HTML. Continue reading Easy Markdown →
