Tag: wordpress
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Nex in CapsulePress
I've extended CapsulePress to support Nex, an ultra-lightweight smolweb protocol from the Nightfall City community.
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What the heck is going on with WordPress?
My colleague Paolo Belcastro invites you to play a little game: one of these phrases that begins "wp" is not like the others...
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Transparency, Contribution, and the Future of WordPress
Joost de Valk weighs in on the WP Engine drama, but pivots into some excellent ideas that think bigger about the future of the WordPress community, contribution, and collaboration. I'm not 100% convinced by his ideas, but I'm enormously impressed by his big-picture thinking.
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WP Engine's Three Problems
Matt Mullenweg kicked off a battle of words between Automattic and the WordPress Foundation and hosting company WP Engine. Without weighing in on the legal aspects (IANAL), I've written up my thoughts.
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OMG VaultPress Jetpack Backup to the rescue.
One of the best Internet people drew me a picture and when I replied to it, it got scrambled. 😱
But even though I had to modify core WordPress columns to store drawings, the backup respected that and I was able to restore it.
I used to pay for VaultPress. Nowadays I get it for free as one of the many awesome perks of my job. But I'd probably still pay for it because it's a lifesaver.
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So... I'm A Podcast
As you might have already noticed, I started a podcast. Let's take a look (or listen!) into how and why I adapted my WordPress installation to double as a podcast host, and discuss what kind of content you're likely to find on it...
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Draw Me a Comment!
Instead of typing a comment for me to read, you can now draw one! Please don't make me regret this, Internet (🍆).
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Tidying WordPress's HTML
My blog theme runs Tidy on the HTML output to help standardise it and make it more human-readable. I thought I might be the only person to care about such things, but it turns out that Terence Eden does too, so I've open-sourced my approach.
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A completely plaintext WordPress Theme
Terence Eden took my idea for a completely plain text blog, ran with it, and just kept running. Now it's a WordPress theme!
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100 Days To Offload
The #100DaysToOffload challenge asked personal bloggers to author 100 posts in a year. I've done that a dozen times by accident, but does it count?
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Lightboxes Without JavaScript
An image lightbox overlay with no JavaScript whatsoever? Absolutely. Here's how I do it.
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Emoji Reactions
I added a stupid feature to my blog.
On some posts, including this one, you can now send an "emoji reaction". Y'know, for if you're too lazy to write a comment.
The available reactions vary by post.
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Making WordPress Fast (The Hard Way)
Lots of guides explain how to improve WordPress performance easily. This guide is different. I'd like to share the hard ways in which you might squeeze even more speed out of your WordPress site.
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CapsulePress - Gemini / Spartan / Gopher to WordPress bridge
My WordPress blog posts are accessible via Gemini, Spartan, and Gopher. And now I've open-sourced the code that makes it possible. I give you: CapsulePress!
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Stopping WordPress Emoji 'Images' in Feeds
By default, WordPress's RSS feeds replace emoji with externally-hosted images of emoji. Let's see if we can turn that off.