At the core of Gutenberg lies the concept of the block. From a technical point of view, blocks both raise the level of abstraction from a single document to a collection of meaningful elements, and they replace ambiguity—inherent in HTML—with explicit structure. A post in Gutenberg is then a col...
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👓 Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason | Wired
The philosophy of Hannah Arendt points to the banal evil beneath Facebook's many mistakes.
We definitely need some humanity and morality in our present mess. More and more I really want to rage quit Facebook for what it’s doing to the world, but I would like to have all my friends and family follow me.
👓 Why I’m Deleting All My Old Tweets | Wired
If you want to delete yours too, here's how.
👓 Social Timelines: Life Lost on the Curated Projections of Other People’s Lives? | James Shelley
James Shelley (jamesshelley.com)I’m looking for agreement, disagreement, or reflections on the following proposition: Time spent reading social timelines is time lost. Scrolling through a timeline is time consumed by the curated projections of other people’s lives, which are absorbed wholly and only at the cost of living your ...
An interesting take, I want to think about this for a bit…
👓 Remember WordPress’ Pingbacks? The W3C wants us to use them across the whole web | The Register
'Webmentions' spec promises future linkspam outbreakSomething called Webmentions – which looks remarkably like the old WordPress pingbacks, once popular in the late 2000s – is grinding through the machinery of the mighty, and slow-moving, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
But don’t be deceived. Lurking behind that unassuming name lies something that might eventually offer users a way of ditching not just Facebook and Twitter but also those other massive corporations straddling the web.
An awfully inflamatory headline and opening, but the rest was not so up-in-arms and seemed relatively measured. Was it intended to try to be link bait?
👓 Pardon the dust | Robert Talbert
Big changes happening here on the blog. Here's what's happening, what's busted, and what's coming.
👓 Customizing WordPress Feeds | Digging Into WordPress
WordPress feeds enable your visitors to subscribe to your content for use in their favorite feed-reader. For example, subscribing to the main-posts feed and/or the comments feed is a great way for your readers to stay current with all the latest news and content from your website.
With WordPress, you can deliver a wide variety of "Full-text" or "Summary" (partial) feeds in numerous formats, including Atom, RDF, and RSS2. This variety extends the reach of your content by enabling your feeds to be read in more apps, readers, and devices.
As awesome as the default feeds may be, they are also readily customizable using a variety of methods. In addition to WP's built-in ways of configuring your feeds, you can go even further with custom templates, functions, and plugins. In this DigWP post, you'll learn everything you need to customize your feeds with bonus content, recent posts, social media, and much more.
👓 Automatic Feed Links | WordPress Codex
Automatic Feed Links is a theme feature introduced with Version 3.0. This feature adds RSS feed links to HTML <head>.
👓 Just do it — by hand | Jeremy Cherfas
So when I do syndicate out to a silo, I do it by hand. Sure it would be tedious if I wanted to do that for every little thing, but I don't. I share the things I want to share, in the way I want to share them.
I’ve noticed that I typically syndicate almost everything manually despite the fact that I’ve got the ability to do it automatically. Doing it manually actually gives me a greater feeling of ownership somehow.
I do miss the ability to have public comments coming back however…
👓 IndieWeb has many meanings and a singluar meaning | Gist
Note: this will probably be rambling and will need editing to add links and such, but I needed to put it odwn and put it out there
IndieWeb has many meanings and a singluar meaning–own your content on a domain you control. Plumbing, how you create the content, how it is stored and how you display it is all up to you. As long as it is your content that you can take with you on a domain name you control, you are IndieWeb already.
But with the recently published article about Webmentions, IndieWeb also takes on having the ability to also interact from your own site. A practical example:
- I publish this post its syndicated to Twitter, micro.blog and a feed (atom as well as jsonfeed).
- You reply with a tweet, it shows up as a comment on the site. Someone else replies within micro.blog, same thing. Someone else reads it in their feed reader and writes a blog post sendinga webmention, same - shows up as a comment.
- I can reply natively to each comment and it will aggregate back to my site.
All accomplished with existing WordPress plugins available in the wp.org repo.
The catch? Microformats. Specifically Microformats 2. That is the semantic markup in the theme that facilitates communicating the context of the content.
WordPress still supports the original microformats, which can cause problems when parsing mf2. There was an attempt to introduce mf2 into WP core
Then, it was closed as
wontfixbecause changing a class name might break themes that used it as a style hook.I can't see how the change could be made without breaking a majority of WordPress sites.That was 2 years ago. And while I'm still trying to get an exact current state of affairs to know precisely what needs changed, I'm saying its time to rethink this decision.
WordPress has always had the tag line "democratizing the web." As we enter a new phase of the Internet and fears of walled gardens and homogonized social silos, now more than ever WordPress should use a major update to introduce what I would suggest a minor breaking change in display on some sites to allow further development of inter-site communication using WordPress.
Gutenberg is ushering in a slew of changes in how themes will work best, so if there is a good time to change something like a css class, why not now?
👓 The death of a TLD | blog.benjojo.co.uk
Another one bites the dust. The gTLD gold rush is now seeing a steady flow of TLD’s that clearly just didnt work out. In the last week, ICANN removed the documentation for .xperia a TLD owned by Sony for their smartphone brand.
👓 RSS is undead | TechCrunch
RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble protocol has managed to keep on trudging along despite all evidence that it is dead, dead, dead. Now, with Facebook’s scandal over Cambridge Analyt…
👓 How to create custom RSS feeds with WordPress | Raphael Hertzog
Wordpress has many alternate built-in feeds: per category, per tag, per author, per search-keyword. But in some cases, you want feeds built with some more advanced logic. Let's look at the available options.
👓 How to Customize the RSS Feed on Your WordPress site | First Site Guide
Although WordPress creates an RSS feed for your blog automatically, that doesn't mean you can't customize it. Learn more about it and modify RSS to your needs.
👓 Easy Custom Feeds in WordPress | Digging Into WordPress
Now that we have seen how to setup Tumblr-style posts, it would be nice to be able to segregate the Tumblr-posts category from the main feed into its own, separate feed. This would enable readers to subscribe exclusively to the Tumblr-posts feed and maybe display it in their sidebar or something.
While we’re at it, it would also be cool to be able to provide readers with a full menu of feed choices:
Everything feed: includes both the main posts and the Tumblr posts
Articles-only feed: includes only the main articles and no Tumblr stuff
Tumblr-only feed: includes only the Tumblr-style posts
Let's look at an overview of the process..