My HTML Feeds
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Jan Boddez on I’ve been, over the course of the last few months, experimenting with (both RSS and) h-feeds, a lot. The following pages or sections now sport full-on h-feeds … Continue reading My HTML Feeds →
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Adding an OPML Endpoint to My Aperture Instance
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Jan Boddez on I was looking for a way to easily import feeds into Aperture, actually, and then I realized it’s not hard at all to add an export endpoint instead. Continue reading Adding an OPML Endpoint to My Aperture Instance →
Allow WordPress to Redirect to … Itself
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Jan Boddez on If your WordPress admin interface lives at a domain that’s different from your actual site’s, make sure to add the former to the “allowed redirect hosts.” If you don’ t, you’ll get redirected to the admin dashboard way more often than needed, e.g., after running some kind of action, rather than stay on the settings or tools page the request originated from. Continue reading Allow WordPress to Redirect to … Itself →
Using Docker to Run Aperture, a Microsub Server
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Jan Boddez on A Microsub server—like Aperture—is very much like an RSS feed aggregator, though it supports more than just RSS, like JSON, and even Microformats. Most, if not all, Microsub servers also require a separate client-side application. An IndieWeb reader, if you like. Now, because of Aperture’s many dependencies, I’ve gone the Docker Compose route. Continue reading Using Docker to Run Aperture, a Microsub Server →
Adding Some Context to (Web)mentions
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Jan Boddez on I decided to have a look at how WordPress generates its increasingly rare pingback “previews.” The result is a somewhat ugly PHP function that, given an HTML string and target URL, returns the link text, plus some of the text surrounding it. Continue reading Adding Some Context to (Web)mentions →
Customize “Share on Mastodon” Statuses
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Jan Boddez on Sometime last year, I wrote a (rather opinionated) plugin that automatically shares WordPress posts on Mastodon. While the Settings page lets you choose which posts will be POSSE’d, most “customizing” is made possible through filter hooks. Continue reading Customize “Share on Mastodon” Statuses →
Truly Random Post Slugs
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Jan Boddez on I’ve again changed the way certain Post Types’ slugs are being generated. Continue reading Truly Random Post Slugs →
(Seemingly) Random Post Slugs
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Jan Boddez on Notes—very short posts that normally don’t have a title—on this site sport URLs that end in a short, numerical “slug.” Each such slug is generated automatically (with a little help of Optimus), based on the post’s database ID, and thus unique. Continue reading (Seemingly) Random Post Slugs →
Self-Hosting Matomo on a Small VPS, Alongside Other Services
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Jan Boddez on 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 →
Self-Host WordPress “Google Fonts”
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Jan Boddez on 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” →