I had the pleasure of chatting with Michelle Frechette on WPCoffeeTalk today. We talked about WordPress, my new site, and the fields API

https://www.alexstandiford.com/articles/speaking/interviews/wpcoffeetalk-alex-standiford/

#ProjectStandifordBlog #ProjectWordPressFieldsAPI #RVLife #Travel #WordPress

I was featured on WP Tavern, where Nathan and I talked about how the Fediverse has transformed my approach to publishing content online.

https://wptavern.com/podcast/76-alex-standiford-on-how-wordpress-and-the-fediverse-can-be-combined

#Fediverse #ProjectStandifordBlog #WordPress

I think I'd really benefit from some kind of media service that handles the photos and videos on my WordPress site. I need a more-reliable way to upload videos that auto-converts the videos, optimizes them, serves them, organizes them, and all of that fancy stuff. WordPress works, but it's never really been a great media tool. Hmm.

https://www.alexstandiford.com/micro/1616

#Php #ProjectStandifordBlog #WordPress

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!

https://www.alexstandiford.com/micro/1507

#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 😊.

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Original: https://alexstandiford.com/micro/1443

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.

#Microblogging #ProjectStandifordBlog #WordPress

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.

https://alexstandiford.com/micro/1273

#WebDevelopment #projectStandifordBlog #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 😊.

https://alexstandiford.com/micro/1200

#projectStandifordBlog #webDevelopment #rss

So last night, I did a thing to website. If you're on desktop do, do not click on the clock button in the top-right corner. Things get weird.

https://alexstandiford.com/micro/1161

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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.

#PoSSE #WordPress #ProjectStandifordBlog

https://alexstandiford.com/micro/1135

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.

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