On Web Development, WordPress, and More

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 →

I’ve again changed the way certain Post Types’ slugs are being generated. Continue reading Truly Random Post Slugs →

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 →

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 →

Much like its predecessor, this article’s all about Laravel websites that rely on the Laravel Page Cache package for page caching. This time, though, we’re going to make caching work for pages with a query string in their URL, too. Continue reading Fix Pagination when Using Laravel Page Cache, Part II →

Inspired by the many colorful, Carbon-generated images of source code, I sat down and created Source Snap, a pure PHP Featured Image generator in WordPress plugin form. Continue reading Colorful Source Code Images →