I’ve recently taken up experimenting with a small Ubuntu VPS, and while still directly hosting a few Laravel-based applications, I’ve also started fiddling with Docker (Compose) as a means to keep the host OS somewhat lean. That said, let’s have a look at some of the work that went into installing Matomo on top of this setup. Continue reading Self-Hosting Matomo on a Small VPS, Alongside Other Services →
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” →
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 →
I’ve added a Notes section to this blog. ‘Notes’—not unlike my longer ‘articles’—are simply WordPress posts, but carry a ‘status’ Post Format. What’s more, though, is that as soon as I hit publish, they’ll also appear on Mastodon and Twitter (a form of POSSE). Continue reading A Notes Section →
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 →
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 →
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