Notes tagged “wordpress”

Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/wordpress-community-attributes-declining-market-share-to-performance-issues-increased-complexity-and-the-lagging-full-site-editing-project.

Bookmarked https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortnotes/.

I’ve previously complained about not being able to easily add a class to inline links in Gutenberg. This here code takes a bit of a different approach, and uses span and data elements instead. (Still, I’d love to be able to just use a elements, in a robust manner.)

Updated my “‘IndieWeb’ Custom Post Types” plugin a bit. Integrated a couple things I’d implemented as several must-use plugins at first; it all became a bit much. (Good thing nobody else actually uses it; their feeds would break.)

A lot of my WordPress sites are based off a select few “base” themes, which I’d then change the fonts, colors, and spacing of (in a child theme, obviously). Being able to do so in theme.json will probably make that sort of thing quite a bit easier.

My one issue with ClassicPress is that it’s based on WordPress 4.9. (WordPress itself is now at version 5.9 and a fair number of plugins have moved on to—very few, ’cause not that much has changed, but still—core functions introduced in one of the more recent versions. All while, perhaps surprisingly, the Classic Editor plugin just works.)

Using block variations to create a custom taxonomy block, nice.

Spent an hour or two writing a (basic) WordPress plugin that consumes “audio scrobbles,” like those sent to Last.fm. So rather than (share my data with a third-party service and then) use their API to display a widget or whatever on my blog, my CMS itself is now the “audio scrobbling” endpoint.

TIL there’s a Hide Admin Bar plugin for WordPress! Well, you don’t need it. Just disable the admin bar in your user settings. (This is especially true for single-user installs.)

An alternative for Post Kinds (and my—even simpler than Shortnotes—https://github.com/janboddez/indieweb-custom-post-types)?

Turns out it’s super easy to have WordPress send emails using SMTP. No plugins required.

I very much like the fact that the different “mainstream” IndieWeb plugins exist separately. That way, I can install only what I need—IndieAuth and Micropub.

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.)

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/2120142d02.

And while all of Jetpack’s tests can be removed—or unhooked—I’d rather just hide the one “wrong” test. (Can’t even do that for IndieAuth, whose callback is a non-static method of a class, the instance of which cannot be retrieved by any other code, e.g., using a “singleton pattern” or global var.)

Bookmarked https://nitter.net/scottbolinger/status/1280567235006742528.

Haha.