For the last few months, the WordPress developer community has been moving towards a release of WordPress 5.0. This is the highly anticipated release that will contain the new Gutenberg editing experience. It’s arguably one of the biggest leaps forward in WordPress’ editing experience and its de...
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👓 IndieWeb and the Log Lolla theme | More Themes Baby
Since they don’t support webmention and don’t seem to have comments on their site open, I’ll say “Hello!” by syndicating to Twitter. I hope you haven’t given up on the idea of what the IndieWeb stands for and are still thinking of making your Log Lolla theme directly compatible with how the IndieWeb works with WordPress. There are a bunch of us out here who’d love to give you any help and support you need as we’d all love to see more IndieWeb friendly themes in the WordPress repo. Feel free to join us in the #IndieWeb chat or the #WordPress chat to say hello.
👓 Creating Custom RSS Feeds in WordPress – The Right Way | Philip Newcomer
There are a lot of tutorials floating around the internet that describe how to create a custom RSS feed in WordPress. Most of them have you creating a new page template, copying the code that WordPress uses to generate feeds into the page … Continue reading →
👓 Zero-day in popular WordPress plugin exploited in the wild to take over sites | ZDNet
Attacks started around three weeks ago and are still going on. Users should update the WP GDPR Compliance plugin to version 1.4.3 to protect their sites.
Reply to It’s time for a new branch of public media by Ben Werdmüller
This general idea also isn’t too dissimilar from Greg McVerry’s idea of having local libraries allow patrons to “check out” (aka set up) their own domains and social presences/identities using their library cards.
The difficulty I see is that as the world moves toward increased specialization, that looking for newspapers or even municipalities to oversee and maintain such infrastructure may be difficult. I already see issues with smaller outlets building and maintaining their own publishing platforms with simple out-of-the-box CMS solutions that are relatively easy-to-use and modify with simple plugins. (In a recent inventory of my local news sources, I’ll note here that nearly 100% of the local online news sources for my community are running on WordPress, but not all of them have a huge amount of technical knowledge about what and how they’re doing it in those spaces). The growth of content management systems like Ghost, which has a journalistic bent, also indicates that there isn’t a “perfect solution” to the CMS problem, much less the issues of running IndieWeb-like platforms/clusters based on simpler platforms like WordPress or even Known. There’s certainly a lot of space out there for third party companies to help grow and expand in both of these areas (community-based social platforms as well as journalism platforms and admixtures thereof.)
If local institutions or even governments did move in this direction, then their users are at the potential mercy of third-party businesses which may not necessarily be aligned with local values. An example of something akin to this was covered recently in The Daily on their episode Taking Over Local News. I’m also reminded about of my poor experiences with un-moderated third party platforms like Nextdoor.com can be.
Another microcosm to look at is how hundreds of thousands of public libraries are interfacing with the four or more media suppliers of e-books and what that financial model looks like as, if taken, I would suspect a similar trajectory for local social public media. Similarly looking at how municipalities interface with cable franchising can reveal some pitfalls to avoid moving forward with respect to monopolies and competition.
Certainly some additional thought about how to solve these issues at the smaller local and personal levels is welcome. Thanks for dipping into and expanding my surface area of thinking Ben.
👓 Mapping Microformats To This Site | Interdependent Thoughts
As a first step to better understand the different layers of adding microformats to my site (what is currently done by the theme, what by plugins etc.), I decided to start with: what is supposed to go where?
I made a post-it map on my wall to create an overview for myself. The map corresponds to the front page of my blog.
Green is content, pink is h- elements, blue u- elements, and yellow p- elements, with the little square ones covering dt- and rel’s. All this is based on the information provided on the http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page, and not on what my site actually does. So next step is a comparison of what I expect to be there from this map, to what is actually there. This map is also a useful step to see how to add microformats to the u-design theme for myself.
Reply to Ton Zijlstra about microformats in WordPress
Naturally, keep in mind that some themes may also have a few already implemented while others may have them implemented poorly (and sometimes even wrong).
❤️ WordCampRS tweet: Group activity in Fun with Fonts with Jessica Broctor
Group activity in Fun with Fonts with Jessica Broctor @JessBoctor! WordCampers created alphabet templates that were scanned, uploaded, converted to a font file and then used in #WordPress. pic.twitter.com/oDesxbuzke
— WordCamp Riverside (@WordCampRS) November 3, 2018
❤️ DawnHeuft tweet: Own your own content. Learning about IndieWeb.org at Chris Aldrich session.
Own your own content. Learning about Indieweb.org at Chris Aldrich session. Looking for solutions for my followers that don’t “Facebook” #WordCamp #wcrs18 pic.twitter.com/cfhPl0UUtd
— Dawn Heuft (@DawnHeuft) November 3, 2018
❤️ genoq tweet: Great reminder that social platforms come and go and so does the content you put on there
Great reminder that social platforms come and go and so does the content you put on there #ownyourcontent #wordpress #wordcamp @WordCampRS #WCRS18 pic.twitter.com/6lhB20S4ik
— Geno Quiroz (@genoq) November 3, 2018
❤️ WordCampRS tweet: Serious swag seekers at this morning’s WordCamp Riverside!
Serious swag seekers at this morning’s WordCamp Riverside! We are about to get started so head on over to John Hughes High School for our #WCRS18 opening ceremonies! pic.twitter.com/SylYcwAKDp
— WordCamp Riverside (@WordCampRS) November 3, 2018
Reply to Taylor Jadin about planet functionality for education
🔖 Splotpoint
A Wordpress-theme SPLOT for presenting the SPLOT Way (on the web) - cogdog/splotpoint