David Shanske
- New York New York United States
My day job is in training for an airline. I also develop Indieweb WordPress plugins so that others can take control of their online identity.
First Night of Chanukah
Why do flight attendants always tell you the local time when you aren’t changing timezones….?
Listening to an Irish folk singer sing a Chanukah song written by a legendary American folk singer. Multiculturalism at it’s finest.
A growing collection of Chanukah Music I find on Youtube.
As Chanukah approaches, I’ve broken out the Chanukah YouTube music playlist where I assemble Chanukah songs. There are some new classics here.
Tracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)Bookmarked Introducing Term Meta Data In WordPress And How To Use Them — Smashing Magazine (Smashing Magazine)
WordPress 4.4 introduced **term meta data** which allows you to save meta values for terms in a similar way to post meta data. This is a highly anticipated and logical addition to the Wor…
Why not a custom taxonomy?
Decided to upgrade my network infrastructure. For the first time since the early days of my home network, I’m going to give using a full computer a try. I’ve ordered an inexpensive mini PC that has two ethernet ports, and am thinking of trying OpnSense.
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)This is a brilliant idea and is broadly what underpins the mission of the IndieWeb space for the past decade. The difference is that it isn’t platform specific and a large portion of it is already built and working! Of course it’s in different stages and forms of usability for various platforms,…
I’m in.
Rel-Me Profile Link Verification on WordPress for Mastodon and Other Services
With the recent interest in Mastodon, there have been a lot of people using WordPress interested in taking advantage of their rel-me link verification feature.
Rel=”me” is a property you can add to links to say that the link represents the same person/entity as the page being linked from. Bi-directional rel-me link verfication means page A and page B both link to each other with rel-me…so you can prove both are under the control of the same person.
On Mastodon, doing this gives you a verified indication in your profile. But, the Indieweb community has already been using this for years for the same purpose.
There are a lot of WordPress plugins for Indieweb Building blocks. But for identity, this is built into the Indieweb plugin itself. In addition to suggesting other plugins to add more Indieweb stuff, it offers the identity features using rel-me.
On the Options page in Admin for the plugin, there is an option to set whether or not the site represents a single person/entity, and to set who the default author is. If you don’t set it, it will put the rel-me links on your author archive(usually /author/username). Otherwise, it will put them on the homepage.
It adds standard profile fields under your URL and uses them to generate rel-me links. By default, these links are hidden links, not visible, so they should just work.
However, if you want them visible, there are 2 options
- One of two widgets. One for an entire profile with the rel-me links displayed as icons, the other for just the links displayed as icons
- Manually adding them to your theme.
I know we should have a block, but I confess to never having written one. One of these days I’ll have to bite the bullet and do so.