Pages Tagged “WordPress”
Reviews
- ClassicPress ★★★★☆ More than just WordPress Minus Gutenberg! Familiar, super-easy to migrate, and can work with most of the WP plugin/theme ecosystem.
- WordPress Block Editor ★☆☆☆☆ This is not distraction-free writing. Every time I try to use it I get frustrated and switch back to the classic editor…because I can USE it.
- WordPress Plugins (and ClassicPress too!) Some WordPress and ClassicPress plugins I’ve used and which ones I recommend.
Tech Tips
- Bunny’s Technorati Tags and WordPress 2.0 (Obsolete) To make Bunny’s Technorati Tags fully compatible with WordPress 2.0 you need to change two lines in the add_tags_textinput() function.
- Database Upgrade Problems! MySQL 5 → 8 with WordPress My webhost upgraded their database server from MySQL 5 to 8. The upgrade itself went smoothly, but I did find some after-effects on my WordPress sites
- First Stab at WordPress/MySQL Tuning (Obsolete) My job sent me to a class on scaling, optimizing and troubleshooting MySQL this week.
- Fixing Feed Problems with WordPress 2.0.6 and PHP 5.2 (Obsolete) Feeds are broken on WordPress 2.0.6 with most, but not all, browsers because of an HTTP header problem. Here’s how to fix it.
- Flash 10 and WordPress File Upload Problems (Obsolete) WordPress use(d) SWFUploader for uploading images, but Flash 10 broke it. Fixed in WP 2.7. Obsolete now that Flash is discontinued and HTML+JS can handle nicer uploads.
- Flock and self-hosted WordPress (Obsolete) If you can’t post to your self/third-party-hosted WordPress blog through a program other than the website, and you use ModSecurity - check those settings.
- Getting Logged Out of ClassicPress ClassicPress uses a strict mode for admin cookies, so following a link to your dashboard from another site requires you to log in again.
- How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT You can use IFTTT’s webhooks target to hook up anything to autopost to a Mastodon account.
- Jetpack Related Posts Missing on an SSL WordPress Site? (Obsolete) If you can’t get Jetpack’s related posts to load on self-hosted WordPress running HTTPS, check your SSL settings to see if you need to disable RC4.
- Make Feedly Notice an Updated WordPress Post by Changing the GUID Changing the GUID of an updated post in your RSS/Atom feed will tell feed readers that it’s a new post. Here’s some WordPress code that will let you do that with a custom field.
- Moving WordPress: Finding and Updating Old Paths How to find every last reference to the old path in the entire site and config because WordPress stores absolute paths all over the place and some configurations will break if you don’t update it.
- PHP 5.2.2 vs. WordPress XMLRPC (Obsolete) A bug in PHP 5.2.2 breaks WordPress’ XMLRPC interface, which breaks stats and other clients.
- PHP5 and WP Cache 2 (Obsolete) Finding and fixing errors with WordPress’ WP Cache plugin and PHP5.
- Quick Fix: WordPress Social Homes and LinkedIn Icon (Obsolete) If your WordPress blog shows a blank icon for LinkedIn, this simple change will fix it.
- Reusable PHP Please, when developing your plugins, be sure to always use the full opening tag for PHP instead of just <?
- Share to the Fediverse with ShareOpenly A share button that connects to Mastodon, Bluesky, Micro.blog, Threads and more. Here’s how I’ve hooked it up to Eleventy.
- Using WP-CLI with WordPress 4.6 on DreamHost (Obsolete) To use wp-cli with WordPress 4.6, you need to use a newer version than the one installed, and to do that, you need to enable PHAR in PHP.
- What’s in Your Social Media Archive? I checked out what you get when you export your content from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, WordPress, LiveJournal, Tumblr, and Mastodon, with an eye for both private archives and migrating to your own site.
- When Tags Vanish: WordPress 2.1 (Obsolete) A change in plugin hooks in WordPress 2.1 caused older plugins to fire when a post got new comments, causing some weird behavior like losing custom fields.
- WordPress + ActivityPub in a Subdirectory This rewrite rule lets other Fediverse sites find your blog through the ActivityPub plugin, without breaking Let’s Encrypt renewals.
- WordPress 5.7 Upgrade Breaks Posts with Emoji in the Title? Posts with emoji in the title mysteriously stopped displaying anywhere on the blog except the edit form, possibly due to mismatched character sets.
- WordPress Broken on PHP 5.2 Again (Obsolete) WordPress 2.1.1 should have fixed the PHP 5.2 problems, but not if you’re also using the internal cache.
- WordPress Combined Searches They’re not in the UI, but you can use URL tricks to search for combinations of tags, categories, authors, and so on.
- WordPress Complexity vs. Eleventy WordPress has gotten complicated to run, complicated to use, complicated to render… Eleventy is complicated too, but only to set up.
- WordPress Name+Number Login/Registration Attacks I was seeing a lot of brute force login attacks with odd usernames, and found that they were actually trying to register and kept trying the wrong form.
- WordPress Plugin: Combined Readme You can use a README.md instead of a readme.txt so the same file works for both the plugin directory and your git repository.
Les Misérables
- Switching to Eleventy I converted this blog from WordPress to Eleventy, a static site generator that should make the site both faster and easier to maintain.
Blog Posts
- Automattic to WordPress Community: Don’t Trust Us
Automattic has announced that they are “realigning” their contributions to WordPress due to fending off “attacks” from the “community” and WP-Engine. Automatticians who contributed to core will instead focus on for-profit projects within Automattic, such as WordPress.com, Pressable, WPVIP, Jetpack, and WooCommerce. Members of the âcommunityâ have said that working on these sorts of things […]
- Migrated to ClassicPress
Migrating this 22-year-old 3000+ post behemoth of a blog from WordPress to ClassicPress turned out to be a lot faster and easier than I expected.
- The Firehose and the Jetpack
I’ve been meaning to disconnect from Jetpack for a while now. This seems like a good time to do it, and to finally clear out the older Tumblr and WordPress.com blogs I don’t use anymore. Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Usersâ Data to Train AI Tools — 404 Media It’s the kind of thing that […]
- Ideas for Unifying a Fragmented Website
My website’s built with a mix of WordPress, hand-coded HTML, and multiple Eleventy instances, which means tags and search are fragmented.
- Thoughts on Tumblr’s Escape from Verizon to WordPress
At least it’s going to a social media company and not another conglomerate. And one that’s more responsible than the big two!
- Sort of Blogging on the Fediverse
Over at Key Smash!, I’ve been helping beta-test the Pterotype plugin to hook up a self-hosted WordPress to the Fediverse. It gives WordPress an ActivityPub presence, so new posts and comments can be seen in Mastodon, Pleroma, and other ActivityPub-powered networks, and replies from those networks can come back as comments. But Key Smash! is […]
- Possibly Out-There Federation Idea
Now that Pixelfed federation and Pterotype are taking shape, I can hook up my photos and blogging directly into Mastodon and the Fediverse, but you know what would be even cooler? Connecting them to each other. A lot of my blog ideas grow out of photos or statuses that I’ve posted previously, as I find […]
- Pingback Problem: 162K WordPress Sites Tricked into DDoS
It’s always annoying when someone figures out a way to exploit intentional behavior, especially when it’s a key part of the design.
- End of the Blogroll
With blogrolls dropped from new installations of WordPress, it’s time to rethink the idea of global link lists on a modern blog.
- Links: 1.0 Releases, Sci-Fi and Science Fact, The Missile that Wasn’t
Matt Mullenweg on Apple, WordPress & tech release strategy. 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number Robert J. Sawyer on the relationship between science fiction and science fact: The job of sci-fi isn’t to predict “THE future,” but “to suggest a smorgasbord of possible futures, so that society may choose the one it wants.” Mystery California missile […]
- New Plugin: Nice Links for Twitter Tools
The plugin ties into Twitter Tools and cleans up cryptic links, following redirects and adding readable titles when it builds up a digest.
- Recent Links: CMS Nirvana, $1M Comma, Voltron as a Band
CMS Nirvana, the million-dollar comma, and the Voltron concert poster.
- Promoting Old Posts
There’s a plugin to automatically tweet links to old posts – but is it an effective way to promote forgotten gems?
- New Look for WordPress 3.0
WordPress has been making a big deal out of their new default theme, Twenty-Ten, released with WordPress 3.0. Meanwhile, I’ve been watching this site get more and more cluttered, and I keep having to tweak the existing theme to be able to deal with new WordPress features like nested comments, custom menus, etc. Last week […]
- Back to WP-Mobile
I’m really impressed with the new version of WordPress Mobile Edition. It handles both the low-end and high-end (iPhone, Android) devices cleanly and efficiently. I was using a three-tiered setup with WP-Mobile for basic phones, WPTouch for iPhone and Android devices, and of course the regular theme for desktops, but it seems simpler to drop […]
- Improving Browser Reliability
The IEBlog recently posted about their efforts to improve reliability in Internet Explorer 8, particularly the idea of “loosely-coupled IE” (or LCIE). The short explanation is that each tab runs in its own process, so if a web page causes the browser to crash, only that tab crashes — not the whole thing. (It is […]
- Bits and Pieces: Botox Shirt, SDCC Sellout, Spam Karma
Some random observations from today: A sparkly Botox T-Shirt spotted at lunch; Comic-Con has sold out; Spam Karma is being turned over to the community.
- Avatars!
Since Gravatar was bought by Automattic, the service has been a lot more stable. I had already re-enabled them on this blog before WordPress 2.5 came out with built-in Gravatar* support. Not everyone has a Gravatar, though, so many comment threads just show the default icon, over and over. Not only does this look boring, […]
- Spam Switch
With the recent rash of Trackback spam, I finally bit the bullet and am now experimenting with Akismet in addition to Spam Karma. I’m not sure how well they work together, or, at this point, which plugin processes the comment first. Update: I’m trying Akismet on its own for now. Or, more precisely, Akismet as […]
- WordPress takes over Browse Happy
I didn’t see that one coming: BrowseHappy Now Part of WordPress as WaSP Refocuses Mission. Apparently the Web Standards Project decided they’d be better off remaining neutral. So they’ve handed it off to WordPress, who has been promoting Firefox on their website and in the admin interface for months. It’s an odd fit, but who […]
- Gaming search engines with WordPress
It’s always something. Apparently WordPress.org has been dabbling in black-hat SEO, hosting thousands of keyword-based articles on their high–page-ranked site and placing hidden links to them on their home page. Way to go, guys. This makes the paranoia over remote images almost look reasonable. What’s next, putting ads in the next default template? The free/open […]
- New Blog Software
The B2 /Cafelog project is evolving into WordPress. I finally got around to updating the software, and I’ve run into a few problems with some of my customizations. Mainly there’s no “On This Page” list on the sidebar, but if you notice anything else odd or broken-looking, comment on it here!