Notes

Bookmarked https://werd.io/2020/we-still-need-to-unlock-the-web.

My feed reader is an important part of my morning routine, but it also serves another purpose: to keep regular subscription content out of my inbox.

Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/first-look-at-twenty-twenty-one-wordpresss-upcoming-default-theme.

Right now is the best time for anyone who wants to get involved with Twenty Twenty-One to do so.

Just added a tiny new feature to “Share on Mastodon.” After a post is published, the meta box will now display a link to the corresponding Mastodon status. There’s also the possibility to forget the Mastodon URL, allowing anyone to again share their post (the next time it’s updated). Fun fact: this isn’t new per se, but previously required fiddling with a hidden custom field. New version’s not in the WordPress repo, yet. I’ll try to push it tomorrow or so.

Bookmarked https://freek.dev/1764-how-to-call-an-overridden-trait-function.

[How to] override a trait function and call it from the overriding function.

Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-clarifies-jamstack-remarks.

Also, and I hate to say this, comparing page load times for a static site on the one hand and WordPress + a page caching plugin on the other makes little sense. In both cases, you’re loading static HTML.

You can achieve the same performance by putting a great CDN like Cloudflare on top of WordPress, and your life will be infinitely easier when you want to add dynamic features like a store or comments.

Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/gutenbergs-custom-spacing-should-be-theme-controlled.

It is time to consider some standards on design-related class names and provide a framework that all themes can use.

Anyway, if you’ve got both a h-feed and an RSS feed—you’ve probably got more than one, which is great—for pretty much the same items, and they’re both reasonably error-free and understandable, I’m gonna follow the h-feed. (There’s occasional errors in my microformatted HTML, too, which I’ll then rectify, and so on. It’s sort of unavoidable and no biggie.)

Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/upcoming-api-change-will-break-facebook-and-instagram-oembed-links-across-the-web-beginning-october-24.

Because, why not?

Facebook and Instagram will be dropping unauthenticated oEmbed support on October 24, breaking content across millions of websites.

I keep messing up reposts. :-(

Bookmarked https://css-tricks.com/weaved-webs/.

If I was considering Jamstack for a particular project, and the grand total really was twelve services, I probably would reconsider, particularly if I could reach for a tool like WordPress and bring it down to one.

Bookmarked https://css-tricks.com/winamp-skin-museum/.

Blogs.

What’s the next product that will inspire this kind of user ownership through theming?

Just FYI: you can use Jetpack without connecting it to a WP.com account. You won’t be able to use the CDN, Protect or Publicize modules, but its Custom Post Types, social menus, Markdown support and a whole bunch of other things will work just fine. (It’s called “debug mode,” which is a bit of a misnomer.)