Archives: Toots

New blog post: CSS compression script: now open source #Development #WordPress https://artiss.blog/2023/04/css-compression-script-now-open-source/

Using #react use effect hook in #wordpress https://link.medium.com/EsV1IdRtbzb

Wow. #WordPress is SLOW on an emulated ARM processor on a Zen 3 Ryzen! Multiple seconds per page load. All of my other sites have felt reasonably snappy. Trying to work out whether it’s the emulation or whether it’s just too bloated to allow me to move to a #RaspberryPi for my hosting.

Anyone better with #WordPress than me that knows what I’m doing wrong here? https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-link-you-followed-has-expired-when-approving-user/#new-topic-0

New blog post: Self Pings: What are they and do you need to turn them off? #Development #WordPress https://artiss.blog/2023/04/self-pings-what-are-they-and-do-you-need-to-turn-them-off/

🚀 Hey #WordPress, it’s time to release #OmniForm! I can’t wait for everyone to try out this form builder for the block editor. Thanks to everyone who signed up for early access – check your email this week for the plugin. Stay tuned: https://OmniForm.io 🤩

Trying out the Spotlight-like ”Command Center” in #WordPress (in Gutenberg plugin v15.6. Nothing to see here. Move along. It’s too early. Keep using Turbo Admin! Also: Why does WordPress have to name things differently to every other project? No one has a “Command Center”!

En route pour le #WordCamp #Paris 2023.Déclinaison magazine de #WordPress ! Le saviez-vous ?

Does #WordPress community have trouble reaching younger users? On this today’s livestream we’ll be talking with Olivia Bisset about getting young people involved in WordPress and Computer Science. Olivia is a young entrepreneur who has been organizing hackathons since her early teens. Our special co-host is @michelebutcherjones, who has also been involved in bringing more […]

I recently purchased PostX by these folks https://www.wpxpo.com and noticed that installing the pro plugin does not allow me to use pro features until the license is activated. Isn’t that against GPL or am I wrong? #wordpress

Analytics Spam Blocker 3.1.2 – More domains blocked! A small update where 3 more domains are added to the default block list. These domains have been reported by users over the past months. Additionally, Analytics Spam Blocker of-course works on WordPr[…]https://ajdg.solutions/blog/analytics-spam-blocker-3-1-2-more-domains-blocked/ #analytics #classicpress #improvements #plugin #spam #statistics #update #wordpress

Whats the best way to generate epub and other formats from #WordPress posts? Posts are in a custom post type & have a lot of code in them. Asking for a friend — me — who would like to publish a course and have it availble on their site and as an eBook on Gumroad […]

Thanks to the #ACF plugin, the publications (in English) of the “Feditopia” section of Blogpocket(dot)com can now also be followed on the fediposts archive page and have their own RSS feed. https://www.blogpocket.com/fedipost/ #Fediverse #WordPress @wordpress@chirp.social @wordpress@a.gup.pe

If you’re developing a #WordPress plugin with Git this could be very handy. It will confirm your Git branch in the plugin screen. https://github.com/josephfusco/symlinked-plugin-branch

WordPress folks: I’m playing around with Twenty Twenty-Three (FSE) on a personal site. It’s set as a blog and so the home page is a list of posts. But I can’t get the home page to show more than 10 posts per page, no matter what I change. I’ve set Settings > Reading I’ve set […]

Building a page with only patterns https://wordpress.tv/2023/04/18/building-a-page-with-only-patterns/ #WordPress #wpmisc

Better drag ‘n drop in #WordPress using Pragmatic drag and drop? https://t.co/Rt1XT7UFJKX-POST from: https://twitter.com/soderlind/status/1646853032041238528

Thanks to the last #WordPress meetup @wp0711 regarding #a11y from @bovelett I just challenged one of my websites @epiphyt and easily found some issues. It was a surprise that my contrast function in SCSS was garbage. 😅 It’s now fixed and so the contrast errors are. 🙂 Blog post regarding this SCSS function is in […]

Hey #WordPress folks…. here’s what I gathered from feedback (and my own $0.02) on what if there was a Phase 5 of Gutenberg. https://davidbisset.com/gutenberg-phase-5/

Ever wanted to use your #ActivityPub enabled #WordPress site with a Mastodon App? Now you can test it out:https://github.com/akirk/enable-mastodon-apps Props to @alex

Gravity Forms Address Enhanced v1.26.1 • fixed: gf_address_enhanced_state… merge tag showing in Address field when country subfield has no value• changed: marked as tested up to WooCommerce 7.6 #WordPress #GravityForms #WooCommerce https://gf-address-enhanced.webaware.net.au/reference-manual/changelog/

We are seeing the new website for Artxtu take off and we are happy with what we are seeing. Mireia Puente’s training and training centers website for Artxtu takes off. https://social.blogpocket.com/minipost/mireia-puentes-training-and-training-centers-website-for-artxtu-takes-off/ #WordPress #Gutenberg #ACF @wordpress@chirp.social @wordpress@a.gup.pe

Examining the Gutenberg Phase 5 poll on Mastodon via David Bisset.https://davidbisset.com/gutenberg-phase-5/ #Gutenberg #WordPress

How hard is it to style an <hr> element in the #WordPress block editor? Not that hard… unless you’re me. In which case it took five different attempts to get it right. New blog post:https://www.briancoords.com/styling-the-separator-block-in-five-attempts/

1 Million+ #WordPress Sites Infected💥 Balada Injector #malware exploits theme and plugin vulnerabilities to breach sites, steal data, create fake admin accounts, and maintain persistent access. 🔍 Find out more: https://thehackernews.com/2023/04/over-1-million-wordpress-sites-infected.html 💬Share to spread awareness!

Tentatively submitted an idea/addition and draft implementation for the #WordPress block editor. Decided I’d only clean up the bizarre linting errors I was getting if the core team actually accepts the idea. Let’s see. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/49675

Currently getting completely lost in #wordpress / #composer hell: building a local composer-based plugin that requires base classes from a local path-based package. Plugin: all ok. Local package requires remote package: ok. Local package tries to use required package: class not found but it’s really physically there in /vendor 😬.

It might be useful to know:Yoast SEO 20.5, slated to be released on Tuesday, April 11, will drop support for PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1. #WordPress #Yoast #PHP

Updated Super List today. 🙂 #WordPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/superlist-block/

My favorite #forms plugin for #WordPress is #wsform: Its really amazing how easy to use and #accessible it is. They also have a good freemium Version which I use on every small site. Big recommendation: https://wsform.com/

More accessibility improvement in the latest version of WordPress. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/02/wordpress-6-2-accessibility-improvements/ #WordPress #Accessibility #a11y

Big kudos to Say Hello GmbH for providing this as open source: https://www.git-installer.com/ #WordPress #GitInstaller 🚀https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVDu-BqfJ2E

I really enjoyed Fabian Kaegy on Syntaxfm breaking down all things modern WordPress. He makes a really good case for why WordPress is still the big CMS and how modern development techniques are making it better. #WordPress https://syntax.fm/show/598/supper-club-fabian-kaegy-modern-wordpress-blocks-page-builders-headless-custom-fields

@kranzkrone We use the Plugin Polylang for some projects and have had good experiences with it. Interesting in this context is also a discussion on Discord Channel from WP Sofa (https://wp-sofa.de/)#wordpress #multilingual

“Part of the magic of #WordPress and its success is that the open nature and #decentralized user experience they offer allows the individuals and organizations using it to embrace their first purposes instead of backward engineering from a centralized monopoly and a bagful of money.And a key benefit of distributed systems is that they improve […]

Embed Privacy 1.7.0 is out with a bunch of new features and bug fixes for your #WordPress #embeds. 🎉 https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-privacy/ And after quite a while, Impressum 2.0.1 for your #imprint has also been released with focus to some texts. 📝 https://wordpress.org/plugins/impressum/

Is there an image format conversion plugin for #WordPress that can act like an invisible mu-plugin? (I.e. converts JPEG and PNG images into WebP on upload.) I’d love to have something that simply hooks into wp_handle_upload, uses config constants and does not notify anyone of its existence. Not that I can’t whip one up myself, […]

The #WordPress #Gutenberg block editor has some annoying #Firefox scroll bar issues for years, including vertical (urgh) scrollbars. This CSS snippet mitigates it for me. I wished I’ve fixed it before. /*** Firefox vs Gutenberg sidebar scrollbar fix ***/ .interface-interface-skeleton__content,.interface-interface-skeleton__sidebar,.components-popover__content { scrollbar-gutter: stable; scrollbar-width: thin;}

I wonder if we, as a community, can keep the proposed #WordPress Interactivity API from going the way of #WooCommerce‘s cart fragments. Which is to say that cart fragments are totally fine (and kind of fun) on a modest Woo site. But as soon as you start getting real traffic, that little auto updating shopping […]

Playing around with the #WordPress #FullSiteEditor and I’m hurting for something like a “link to post” block to use within the query loop block– so multiple elements could be nested within the link to the post. Maybe the group block could gain an extra toggle when used in the query loop.

Here’s an account from @kev on how he choose #WordPress to make a self-hosted micro blog (like micro.blog) that also works with the #Fediverse and iOS Shortcuts: https://kevquirk.com/self-hosted-microblog/

Pretty cool, with ActivityPub WordPress plugin I can boost any post from my blog, even older ones directly into Fediverse timeline as a native toot. #WordPress #ActivityPub

We just released a major rewrite of the #Webmention plugin for #WordPress (v5.0) I hope you do not find too many bugs 😳 thanks a lot @ David Shanske for his help and for always pushing me to finish this release 😍 https://wordpress.org/plugins/webmention/

Why #Twitter Isn’t Working With Your Blog (Right Now) – On April 3, Twitter suspended #WordPress.com’s access to the Twitter API without warning. As a result, Jetpack Social — the built-in tool that we use to auto-share your posts to social media — is currently broken for Twitter. This means that auto-posting to Twitter via […]

Another block pattern I created was accepted in the WordPress Patterns repository. A corresponding post from me will follow shortly.https://wordpress.org/patterns/pattern/three-column-photo-views-with-text-and-duotone-background/#wordpress

Looking at recent developments in #WordPress, I see page builders being challenged by Gutenberg and full site editing to create better products. It’s an opportunity to create closer integration with WordPress core for better user experience and let’s remember #accessibility. It’s also a great time for block plugins to grow.

The official release post for Form Block – a neat and customizable #form #block for #WordPress https://epiph.yt/en/blog/2023/release-of-form-block-v1-0-0/ Available for free in the plugin repository at WordPress.org. #gutenberg

Finally found an online course for #OOP #PHP #programming for #WordPress. All articles I had found in the past were more technical than I could grasp. So I ended up struggling, or they were not WordPress oriented. Feeling hopeful:https://www.linkedin.com/learning/object-oriented-programming-and-wordpress/

Been diving into #XDebug profiling for my #WordPress plugin development. Finding it, both, fascinating and overwhelming. Do you know of any easy to digest resources for this? I have it working and looking at the files through #KCachegrind.

Every week I write about the #WordPress community at Post Status. Here’s this week’s roundup! https://poststatus.com/community-roundup-week-ending-march-31/

My #WordPress plugin, Simple Cloudflare Turnstile has now reached 10,000+ active installs! 🎉 An increase of 5000 in just 2 months. 😲 🔗 https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-cloudflare-turnstile/

Another #WordPress weirdness squished. Since 6.1 my `core/list` hadn't been working when using the `allowed_block_types_all` filter. Finally got round to looking into it 😅 Turns out you have to add `core/list-item` as well. Everything is now tickedy-boo.

#WordPress Core contributions by (tickets) numbers – 2023 edition After an year something is changed? Not so much as the numbers says, more owners indeed but the ratio about closed tickets per week is the same.#opensourcehttps://daniele.tech/2023/04/wordpress-core-contributions-by-tickets-numbers-2023-edition/

This sucks. Elementor should at least offer free security upgrades to those of us who can’t afford license renewals. “Hackers exploit WordPress plugin flaw that gives full control of millions of sites” https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-flaw-that-gives-full-control-of-millions-of-sites/ #WordPress #Elementor

The Elementor page builder for WordPress has a major security vulnerability. Make sure you update your plugins! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-flaw-that-gives-full-control-of-millions-of-sites/ #WordPress

This is a bit sub-Tooty but it needs saying. There are an AWFUL lot of people in #WordPress who are still happily building with mostly PHP. Many of these are using ACF blocks to circumvent needing to deal with React and complex, fragile build tooling. I have no evidence (yet) that there’s a mass of […]

#WordPress people! If you where setting up fresh hosting for a clean site/install what php version would you be using? 8.1 or 8.2?

Proposed #wordpress API for interactivity. Looks like AlpineJS, but it’s PHP and JavaScript. https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/30/proposal-the-interactivity-api-a-better-developer-experience-in-building-interactive-blocks/

WP’s upcoming interactivity API is built on Preact + Signals: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/03/30/proposal-the-interactivity-api-a-better-developer-experience-in-building-interactive-blocks/#faq #preact #wordpress

Been working on a new #WordPress plugin for a bit. Not 100 percent done (as evident by the very much not done readme file), but if anyone wants to give it a test drive that would be much appreciated! Feeling much more comfortable with React too. https://github.com/JMWebDevelopment/crosswinds-blocks This is just phase one of a larger […]

A few months ago, I helped my local #LandTrust convert their old HTML site to #wordpress. One benefit of this is that their donation process has been streamlined. (Previously people filled out a PDF form, mailed it in with a check or independently donated on Paypal). Since then, they’ve used their website to raise over […]

#wordpress users and developers – what’s the one thing that you wish plugin and theme developers would stop doing? Bonus points for not saying “ads/banners on admin pages” 😉

A bit of #PHP code here, a bit of #FullSiteEditing there… and here we have Feditopia! I am pleased to introduce you to a new section on Blogpocket automatically curating the most up-to-date information about #Fediverso #Indiewb and #WordPress https://www.blogpocket.com/feditopia/ @wordpress@chirp.social @wordpress@a.gup.pe

So #WordPress 6.2 is out. I can barely get clients to move away from the classic editor to the block editor, much less use a block theme. Sort of feels like, more and more, WP is no longer going to be for the basic average user.

#WordPress 6.2 has been released, and includes my patch to escape Identifiers in SQL, using `%i`. This allows the $query in wpdb::prepare() to be a `literal-string`, which ensures you can’t have an SQL Injection Vulnerability 🥳

#WordPress 6.2 has arrived in the UK and really liking the “Distraction free” mode. 👏

Say hello to WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy,” named for the woodwind jazz wiz, the multi-instrumentalist—Eric Allan Dolphy Jr https://wordpress.org/news/2023/03/dolphy/Did they pick that name on porpoise?#WordPress

Remembering the time I added speech-to-text to my command palette and made voice-controlled #WordPress. I still wonder if this would be awesome… https://rosswintle.uk/2022/05/raise-your-hands-its-voice-controlled-wordpress/

Imagine your first ever Trac ticket (possibly) delaying a major #WordPress release :). Good find though. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57998

If you happen to be looking for some interesting #WordPress backgrounds for your laptop/desktop, here are 30 generated backgrounds that are pretty nice: https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/27/wordpress-wallpapers/

The release of Better Click To Tweet today was AI-assisted. I fed #chatGPT the file I knew I needed to mess with to fix a problem, and described the problem. It gave me several “fixes” that were not working, and I described how they were failing. Each time, the bot changed course, and described why […]

#WordPress #wallpapers as an homage to some of our favorite artists, created with open source #AI tool #StableDiffusion https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/27/wordpress-wallpapers/

I’m considering going old school and setting up my own #WordPress site again in order to junk an existing WordPress.com setup that I think is too expensive and too limiting. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good hosting platform to explore that is also inexpensive? This is only for a personal #blog so nothing […]

I’m really excited about phase 3 of the #WordPress roadmap, with another set of groundbreaking improvements coming in the wake of the Gutenberg project: a proper editorial workflow & collaborative #writing / review features. This is something I’ve been dreaming of for years. To me, it means, “No more Google Docs for drafting/reviewing” in many […]

Just wrote an absolute shit load of documentation on Underpin’s registry/collections API, full of tons of examples with sample code and everything. Hoping I can add to this next week sometime. https://docs.underp.in/reference/registries https://www.alexstandiford.com/micro/1543 #Php #Underpin #WordPress

Improve #WordPress. What is the better quality image, 1 or 2?– Open the site– Press 1 and 2 to change the image– Press z to zoom and return– Pick an option and press the button (1, 2 or neither)– Win, loose, and F5 to reload and play again.You will help WordPress to improve the Image […]

oooh god i hate the templating of wordpress Why cant it just be twig or something that dosnt taste of 2001 hellish jumping in and out of tags and php prints Whats the solution – going completely headless and say fuck it or ?It seems a bit overkill for small clients that have all their […]

Modern web development, that is, the modern JS development system overtaking web development makes this a lot less fun than it used to be for me. I enjoy my work—I’m not talking about an exit or anything—but I don’t want to hack on things like I used to. I wonder if this is how older […]

Block Visibility 3.0.0 Makes Pro Version Free, Adds Browser and Device Control, Visibility Presets, and More https://wptavern.com/block-visibility-3-0-0-makes-pro-version-free-adds-browser-and-device-control-visibility-presets-and-more

So this is a somewhat blunt poll, but… Q. Do you see yourself using WordPress in 5 years time? #WordPress

Working on a Facepile “theme” block for IndieBlocks, which would show a post’s “like,” “bookmark,” and “repost” webmentions. Doesn’t support the Webmention plugin, yet. (It does work with IndieBlocks’ webmentions, which use a slightly different set of custom fields, etc.) #gutenberg #indieblocks #webmention #wordpress (https://bddz.be/P1j)

Redis+Redis Object Cache (https://wordpress.org/plugins/redis-cache/) by @tillkruss is the best way to add object-cache to #WordPress, hands down. #Redis Sentinel is my preferred method for doing HA Redis and I was very happy to see that it is supported by the plugin with a bit of configuration magic. While configuring the plugin, the only way I […]

The #WordPress Gutenberg Phase 3 announcement is very interesting for me. Why? Because it will be disruptive for my Turbo Admin product. An admin redesign (especially if done in React) may make Turbo Admin impossible to run. Fortunately they are also considering adding their own “global search & command component” so Turbo Admin may no […]

@terri #WordPress already has a Social Icons block in it that is perfect for sharing Linktree-style lists with no extra plugins necessary. I made a tutorial on how to use it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-sxXGpQRZQ And you can see how I use it here https://docpop.org/about/

Calling all my #WordPress #developer peeps. There’s a bug in Better Click to Tweet that makes it not currently play nice with Jetpack, and I get this error: TypeError: e.match is not a function at c (…plugins/jetpack/_inc/blocks/editor.js?minify=false&ver=1f6e2a1a273514c1544b:74:5991) That happens any time you try and add a bctt block to the editor, and it shuts the […]

Are you a #WordPress and #ObsidianMD user? See @curtismchale ‘s tip on logging in via @obsidian. His course is also worth it. #PKM https://curtismchale.ca/2023/03/22/publish-from-obsidian-to-wordpress/

Just a general PSA for those that may not be aware. #WordPress is WordPress, not wordpress and especially not WordPress. If someone in your life needs to know this, please boost. Thank you for your time.

Powerful quote to think about today: "Awesome Motive isn’t the company you want it to be, it’s the company they want it to be." https://thewpminute.com/whats-the-problem-with-awesome-motive/

This week in the 21 teams that Make #WordPress🧪 WP 6.2 RC3🙋🏾 Help Test WordPress 6.2🗺️ Field Guide🤖 Use of Code Generators Must Remain GPL Compatiblehttps://poststatus.com/wordpress-6-2-rc3-code-generators-and-gpl

I was a guest on @mattmedeiros ‘s WP Minute+ podcast. I think the talk went really well. We discussed the @gravitykit, building out @trustedlogin, and the future of WordPress. https://wpminuteplus.transistor.fm/episodes/gravitykit-rebranding-a-wordpress-product Get your #WordPress podcast fix!

Publish from Obsidian to WordPressBack in early 2022 I covered an Obsidian plugin that let you publish to WordPress and at the time I wasn’t all that impressed. It felt hard to use, didn’t remember your password, and really didn’t save any time. Since then I had it on my list to write a better […]

For #SmallBusiness owners out there using WooCommerce on their #WordPress online stores, here is a quick overview of our new plugin so you can accept #Zcash : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzJkDxInemw Online payments, directly to you! @wordpress

Anyone interested in knowing how to setup #xdebug & #phpstorm for #WordPress development? #php #debugging #plugins #works #developer #development #wordpressDevelopment #coding

I just closed a ticket of 2007 in #wordpress about a wrong sanitization for a unicode symbol.Because it is working but I don’t to investigate when it was fixed. #4539 (Abbreviated year followed by punctuation or markup doesn’t texturize) https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4539#comment:72

FFS! I do like #WordPress – but I wish Automattic weren’t so… spammy when it comes to new features.The latest #JetPack update has forced a “Blaze” option on *every* post.Wasn’t opt-in. And there’s no way to opt-out. Instead, you need to add a line to your theme: https://developer.jetpack.com/hooks/jetpack_blaze_enabled/

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 😊. […]

AdRotate Pro 5.12.2 – Improvements, tweaks and fixes AdRotate Professional 5.12.2 has a number of improvements for new users with better support links and information for licenses. Based on user feedback it came to light that caching certain stats rela[…]https://ajdg.solutions/blog/adrotate-pro-5-12-2-improvements-tweaks-and-fixes/ #adrotate #analytics #bugfix #classicpress #improvements #license #plugin #pro #wordpress

Air-light WordPress starter theme v9.3.2 released! :neon_skull: This release is brought to you by 4 contributors and financed by @dude. I’m so happy I can do this for a living. :bunhdheart: Changelog: * When page is loaded with “s” in url parameters try to set focus to search input field (kudos to EliasKau)* Calculate mobile […]

Q: Can I convert a #WordPress website into a simple table with two lines of #Python code?A: Yes. It’s better than crawling, because you get much more information this way. Takes a fraction of a fraction of the time. Go to blog_url/wp-json/, if the website enabled it, you should see the content as a JSON […]

Q: “Where would #WordPress be in 5 years, if Matthias Pfefferle had his wish?” A: “Full-flavored ActivityPub, WordPress instances can communicate directly with each other without needing Mastodon.” From an interview with @pfefferle (in German) https://presswerk.net/pw052/