I'm finally dipping my toes into an auto-poster setup using the Share on Mastodon plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/share-on-mastodon
Fingers crossed that this works as-expected, although I'm sure I'll end up with some formatting oddities in the short-term. It'll be worth it, though!
#Fediverse #IndieWeb #Mastodon #ProjectStandifordBlog #WordPress
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 😊.
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.
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.
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 😊.
This post explores the details that went into into my personal content publishing platform for my site, as well as the other blogs that I run.
So last night, I did a thing to website. If you're on desktop, do not click on the clock button in the top-right corner. Things get weird.
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.
So, this micro post is kind of a big deal for me. In spite of it’s casual nature, it’s actually the first micro post I have published on my site. My goal is to use my personal site for all of my content first, and distribute this elsewhere. They call it PoSSE (publish on site, […]
I added comments on my site today! I mean, it doesn't support replies or anything yet, but it can accept a new parent comment, and will display that comment on the post at the bottom.