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.

Post Kinds for WordPress 3.5 Released

Post Kinds for WordPress version 3.5.0 has been released…though I had to quickly go back because I forgot to add a PR that was sent in.

There are no fancy features in this version. It is a major version shift because it removes and rewrites several features. Specifically

  • Removes the Kind On This Day Widget, which is now in the new Tempus Fugit plugin.
  • Rewrites the rewrites…all the Kind rewrites are done much much effectively. This includes things like /kind/checking/2020, for example.
  • The media fragment script, which adds the timestamp to the URL when playing a video or audio file, is not enqueued on AMP loads, per a PR received.
  • Uses new features introduced in 5.5 and for which I added compatibility functionality in this plugin to improve the archive page descriptions. I also rewrite and improved what they say for multi-kind archives… /kind/eat, drink or such.

In the previous version, I had added automatic rewrites for /kind/food, which displays both eat and drink, /media for the watch, listen, play, and read posts, and /reaction for bookmark, repost, like, and favorite, allowing you to archive by topic.

I have more tweaks coming in future, but always moving forward.

Tempus Fugit Version 1.0 for WordPress Released

Tempus Fugit, my latest plugin, has been released. It is a split of several time based WordPress enhancements from other projects, something I intend to continue to iterate on.

  • The On This Day Archive pages, available at /onthisday and /onthisday/03/09
  • The On This Day Widget
  • All Date Based Archives now display in order from oldest to newest instead of vice-versa. If you are revisiting a day, it makes sense to do it in order.
  • Ordinal Days or Day of the Year functionality. Not only will /2021/03/09 work, but 2021/068 . You can also make this your permalink if you want.
  • It also adds the top level archives of:
    • /updated to show posts in order of last modified
    • /oldest to show posts in the order from old to new
    • /random to show posts in a random order.

All of these functions use functionality built into WordPress that isn’t normally public. I look forward to adding additional ways to enhance experiencing your website in different ways….because what your website always needs, as the tagline said, is more time.