Jan Boddez on 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 →
Jan Boddez on While this blog doesn’t and likely never will support comments, I’ve recently implemented some support for incoming webmentions. Continue reading Comments and Webmentions →
Jan Boddez on I know it’s not new, but this teaser for Stranger Things 3 is simply darn cool. Continue reading Starcourt Mall →
Jan Boddez on Create better URLs for (existing) custom taxonomies, and work around clashing URL rewrite rules. Continue reading Rewrite Jetpack’s Custom Taxonomies →
Jan Boddez on While it is perfectly possible to disable caching for URLs that contain a query string, such routes may still get served a previously cached page. We need to not only prevent URLs containing a query string from being cached, but also prevent serving a cached page. Luckily, doing so is easy enough! Continue reading Fix Pagination when Using Laravel Page Cache →
Jan Boddez on The veer towards code-free website customization presents a huge improvement for developers, claims Elementor CMO Ben Pines. I kind of disagree. Continue reading Code-Free Web ‘Development’ →
Jan Boddez on On owning his own content, Tim writes: Instead of posting to Twitter directly, I want to use my site as the hub for that content and let Twitter feed off of that. Of note as well: the great Jeremy Keith explains how his personal site interacts with the rest of the web. Continue reading Owning My Own Content →
Jan Boddez on A few tweaks make a lot of sense when running WordPress headlessly. E.g., without an actual WordPress front end, one may as well get rid of post and page previews. Continue reading Headless WordPress Tweaks →
Jan Boddez on Drew DeVault wonderfully describes the enormous overhead—giant ads and images—that comes with many modern web pages and the sole reason I—working on the web—run multiple tracker and ad blockers. Continue reading Conservative Web Development →
Jan Boddez on I’d normally tweak the WooCommerce Product Categories widget—e.g., exclude certain categories—using the ‘woocommerce_product_categories_widget_args’ filter hook. If I want to add something to that list, however, like a link to the top-level shop page, I’ll have to find another way. Continue reading Filter the WooCommerce Product Categories Widget →