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The Facepile block supports InnerBlocks; the default template contains a Heading and a … Facepile Content block.

If no likes, bookmarks, etc. exist, nothing will be shown (which is why a Group block didn’t cut it).

There will be a setting allowing users to exclude likes, etc. from the “normal” comment list/count—the plugin currently treats all webmentions as normal comments—to not display them twice.

Working on a Facepile “theme” block for IndieBlocks, which would show a post’s “like,” “bookmark,” and “repost” webmentions. Doesn’t support the Webmention plugin, yet. (It does work with IndieBlocks’ webmentions, which use a slightly different set of custom fields, etc.)

Cigar is my new favorite band I’d never heard of.

In my defense: I kind of stopped “discovering” (i.e., caring about) new music somewhere around ’99. (There’s exceptions, of course.)

Was informed about a bug that has to do with my use of register_post_meta(), which I added in order to allow blocks—like IndieBlocks’ (still unpublished) Syndication block!—to access Share on Mastodon’s (hidden) _share_on_mastodon_url. I’ll push a fix tonight.

Did not want to have this in the plugin itself because then I’d have to make a bunch of choices that are hard to explain. (Like, what if there’s 3 images and 2 videos? Which one do you skip? How do you document this behavior.) I kind of already regret uploading images by default.

By providing a filter hook, individual site owners can do whatever suits them best.

Pushed v0.12.1 of Share on Mastodon yesterday. It can now be “tricked” into cross-posting video and audio (from WordPress’ media library to Mastodon) as well. Quick example: https://gist.github.com/janboddez/5c6a69ca603d42b53904f7af6b2ad030 Disclaimer: File type and size limitations apply.

Neat Gutenberg trick: you can have a block accept (and store) InnerBlocks, yet still employ a server-side render callback in which you can run all sorts of logic before returning … the block’s “static” contents.

Works for things other than InnerBlocks, too, by the way.

The trick is $block->render( array( 'dynamic' => false ) ), which returns whatever was saved in the editor. And that can still contain dynamic content, by means of InnerBlocks.

Updated “Share on Mastodon.” Merged some “last minute” changes, and thereby skipped the long-promised v0.11. 🤷 (I so hope nothing broke.)

Hehe, no worries. I’m quite happy with Indigenous, still, but don’t send webmentions for, like, 5 to 15 minutes after posts are published. :-) (And I think it might take an hour, even, for them to show in my web feeds.)

The title and author thingy works as follows: We use apiFetch to call a custom REST API endpoint, and pass along the URL in question. The page gets downloaded and parsed, and if it sports microformats we use those to get an author name, if any, and title. If no title is found, we assume a note and fall back on the bare URL. If the page is not microformatted, we look for its title element instead.

I didn’t wanna deprecate IndieBlocks’ Context block nor introduce a bunch of breaking changes. So I simply added a couple new blocks (https://github.com/janboddez/indieblocks/tree/new-blocks/blocks). There’s two big differences:

1. The new blocks support page title and author information (whereas a Context block will only ever show a bare URL), in a so-called h-cite microformat.
2. They use, or support, Gutenberg’s InnerBlocks. This allows us to ditch sometimes unpredictable—as in, users don’t even know they’re there—block patterns.

Moved some common code into a global object thingy: https://github.com/janboddez/indieblocks/blob/new-blocks/assets/common.js. No clue if this is how it’s done, but it seems to work.

Interestingly, I got a webmention for https://jeremyfelt.com/?post_type=like&p=25013, which my site deemed “invalid” (it does return a 404), but not for this here “like.”

(I wouldn’t know if it weren’t for me troubleshooting my own dang plugin.)

Been playing with it some more, the following works for me (although it requires you add a random class to the Gallery block): https://gist.github.com/janboddez/25acb04f449171a4beae6b55a3e6e9a3

Shouldn’t be too hard to make it listen to an actual block attribute.

Looks like the Gallery block itself employs a filter to, if necessary, manipulate its inner Image blocks. Wonder if a similar filter could be used to simply shuffle $parsed_block['innerBlocks']? https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/dd87b5a4bd237d347f9b5bd2e493200b3945ff79/wp-includes/blocks/gallery.php#L19

That is, until https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/9701 is fixed.

Could be wrong, though.

Wow.

[Some Pico balloons are] capable of circling the world several times before they pop or fall. [O]wners keep track of them through HF and VHF/UHF radio links, [with] tiny attached solar arrays sending power to the transmitter.

↬ Dare Obasanjo