Notes tagged “microformats”

Yay! Another Gutenberg issue that’s existed for years. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/11681 Context: I want to lock down IndieBlocks’ like, but allow (any) InnerBlocks inside the new “like” block. This would allow me to add the necessary .h-cite and .e-content classes in just the right spots, while allowing users to add as many paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and whatnot without mucking up the post’s microformats.

Just switched my other blog to Brian Garnder’s Powder theme, and guess what? All microformats still in place! Only thing I had to do was hop in there and enable the post date block to always link to single articles. (Because note titles are hidden, so are the permalinks inside the heading elements.) Had to do that 3 or 4 times, but I can live with that. Another minor gripe: the “Tags:” and “Categories:” prefixes that are shown even when there are no tags and categories.

Yes! My IndieBlocks plugin is now up on WP.org. Current version offers a single “Context” block, and, optionally, (1) some custom post types, and (2) the ability to add microformats2 to block-based (!) themes. More is on the way. https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieblocks/

Tested it on a nearly empty site with the Blockbase theme, and things like an h-entry’s post type and very basic h-card information is being picked up fine.

Testing my “all-in-one” “IndieWeb” plugin for WordPress with the new 6.1 beta and Twenty Twenty-Three. Seems to work OK, but I’m wondering why my “site doesn’t support the core/post-author-name block.” Like, I knew about the post author block … Of course, you’ve got to install Gutenberg! Makes perfect sense for the new default theme to not work without a plugin.

Quick reminder: WordPress has had (limited) microformats support since just about forever. The new “block” (FSE) themes, like Twenty Twenty-Two, not so much. This is a regression.

WordPress respects the hAtom microformat. Therefore every post has an .hentry class added to it to respect the specification.

Somewhat inspired by https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/09/wordpressindieweb-as-the-os-of-the-open-social-web/, I did some experimenting with WordPress’s new Full Site Editor. The result is this, still very hacky, Twenty Twenty-Two child theme. https://github.com/janboddez/tt2-mf2

Hoping to update my “IndieWeb plugin” with basic block support. Fixing core would be even better.

Either way, themes will need to update, too.

Heureusement, les formats sont très simples à mettre en place : seulement quelques attributs class à ajouter par-ci par-là.

I often explicitly add things like, “In reply to …,” to notes like this, to offer some context to passers-by and RSS subscribers alike. And then forget to keep these sentences out of my e-content, so that social readers, which already pick up the microformats in them, don’t go and display the same information twice. Details matter.