Month: December 2019
MapWaiting for my flight home from IWC SF, the last Indiewebcamp of 2019. There were 13 this year, one online only. I participated in 12 of them, 6 in person. Here’s to more in 2020.
Version 4.2.0 of Syndication Links was released today. This version refactors the site to icon mapping to try to improve accuracy. It also includes:
- Adds support for generating a custom feed to syndicate to Micro.blog and pull back the links to your posts
- Add support for Bridgy Mastodon, courtesy of Charlotte Allen
- Visual enhancements to the Syndication metabox in the post editor, courtesy of Caspar Hübinger
And the usual miscellaneous bug fixes
Using airport sounds for relaxation? Unheard of—until now. We get it. Traveling during the holidays is stressful. So here’s something to help you relax. Intr…
I’m feeling more relaxed already.
In 21 days, I am set to spent nearly two months living in a strange city out of a hotel room. The hotel room has a kitchenette. To make a hotel room like home, what should I bring? Both tech, entertainment, etc.
Chanukah is upon us next week, and I’ve added to my Youtube Chanukah playlist, which complements my digital music collection of Chanukah songs. It includes some fun ones from Acapella groups that do an annual Chanukah song. I have over 150 tracks otherwise…and may pick up more ideas… Sirius XM’s Radio Hanukkah launches December 20th to 31st on Channel 788. Chanukah is an 8 night holiday, gets 11 days of music. Christmas gets 11 Sirius channels that begin November 1st…Clearly we need more Chanukah songs…they are running out.
Celebrating the first night of Chanukah
Syndication Links 4.2.1 and Simple Location 4.0.2 Released
Released some minor bugfix editions today.
Simple Location
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- Rounds all numbers to a maximum of two decimal points, as I introduced a bug in the last version that would fail to fill in numbers in the post editor due form validation requirements.
- Extracts additional location information from Compass…mostly the information I store when I’m on a plane, to generate a better description of the location. It also passes this info to WordPress more effectively so it could do more in future.
- I also introduced a new location provider. If set, if you enter a 3 letter airport code in the location name box, it will replace it with the location and name of that airport, as well as the weather. In future, I may add a similar reverse address lookup for people.
- Misc bug fixes
Syndication Links
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- Some bug fixes introduced in 4.2.0
- Due to the request to allow syndication provider checkboxes to be checked by default, I introduced two new filters: syndication_link_checked and syndication_link_disabled. The first parameter of each is a boolean that if true, will set either checked or disabled on that Syndication Provider. The second and third parameter is the uid of the provider and the post_id of the post.
I have been very reluctant to add an auto-post feature that just syndicated everything. I wanted some more granularity around this feature. But I’m not ready to implement it at this time. So, as a compromise, I’ve added a filter if someone does not want to wait for me.
Indieweb Plugin Version 3.4.2 Released
The Indieweb plugin was updated with an icon refresh. This used some of the same code updated in Syndication Links earlier this week. It also added a Mastodon field to the user profile and added a way of displaying that as a Mastodon icon in the profile links on the page.