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Alex Standiford

I had mistakenly thought that the WordPress app was replaced by Jetpack. Turns out it wasn't. It simply split from WordPress. You no longer need Jetpack to run the WordPress app on a self hosted WordPress site.

No offense to the people who surely work hard on this plugin, but it's not for me 😊.

Jim Carey in the movie Liar Liar mimicking a typing motion, and saying "tick tick, Deleted!"

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Alex Standiford

Silly me. I've been manually typing the hashtags in these microposts. I even conceptualized this parser that automatically converts hashtags into WP tags and turns them into links.

I dropped this, and instead just automatically append all of the tags on this post as a hashtag on the site. So much easier.

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Alex Standiford

Me: what would make this blog post with tons of images nicer, Kate?

Kate: They all need to be grouped up in a carousel, like Instagram

Me: gaaaaah I knew you were gonna say that!

And that's why I spent the last hour turning the gallery blocks on Casual Weirdness and my personal site into galleries. Which, honestly, was pretty easy because React.

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Alex Standiford

I updated my RSS feeds so that you can filter content by tag. So if you only want to follow a specific topic of mine, you can simply append ?tag=tag-name at the end of any of my RSS URLs, and it will only show content with that tag.

Example: https://www.alexstandiford.com/rss.xml?tag=WordPress

Eventually, I'll actually embed this into the interface to make it a little easier to use, but for now this will do just fine 😊.

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Alex Standiford

I just realized that the Jetpack app supports group blocks(!)

This means that if I want to publish a thread, I can put each intended "post" in individual group inside a single WP post. That allows me to thread things, but also delineate between the items for threads on social.

It's not quite as good as a native block, but it's definitely a step in the right direction. If only I could register my own block in the Jetpack app...sigh. I wish that was possible, because I could make a block that is such a better experience than what I have now.

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