David Shanske – Page 56

Replied to Extra Feeds Plugin for WordPress (BoffoSocko)

For individual posts, the Extra Feeds plugin will add code into the

of one’s page to provide feed readers that have built-in discovery mechanisms the ability to find the additional

You were asking for such a thing during IWC Online. I commented it was easy and could quickly build it. So I did. Glad people like it.

For IWC Online today, I added the ability to read the WordPress REST API as if it were a Microsub feed. It may work well on sites that do not have a rich feed.

My Setup At the Hotel Central in Sofia

Attending Indiewebcamp Online from my hotel room.

Micropub for WordPress 2.1.0 Released

Micropub version 2.1.0 for WordPress was released. It contains no exciting new features as Micropub is fairly stable.

Micropub now checks WordPress capabilities more effectively. It will now throw an error if the user tries to edit a post authored by another user if they do not have that permission, for example.
Default Titles and captions weren’t being set for images when uploaded.
Fix a variety of timezone related bugs
Added support for the proposed draft scope. If the token has this scope and not the create scope, then it will only allow posts to be created as drafts.
Return the created URL in the Micropub response to support an automation use case.
Add filters to allow a custom post type or custom taxonomy to be set during creation.
No longer support the ‘post’ scope as permission to do anything. It will map to a combination of create and update.
Misc unit test tweaks for consistency.

Replied to Manual Backfeed in the Blogosphere (BoffoSocko)

Forcing webmentions for conversations on websites that don’t support Webmention Within the IndieWeb community there is a process called backfeed which is the process of syndicating interactions o

Incredibly old…Is this your way of telling me that I need to update refbacks?

I attended an event that I heard about while attending Friday night services at Chabad here in Sofia, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

In my walking tours of Sofia, the tour guides touched on the history of Bulgarian Jews during World War 2. At the event, one survivor spoke…the individual translating for me did not cover everything, but the same individual spoke the day before, and it was covered here.

If I got the gist correctly, he said that the idea that all Bulgarian Jews were saved was not true, there were victims. Either way, it’s complicated.

The documentary featured a survivor returning with school age children to tell them about what she experienced at Auschwitz and was very powerful.

As someone who has been to a fair number of Holocaust remembrance events, this was very meaningful to me, especially that I could be a part of it even though I was far from home, even though I did not understand everything that was said.

Checked into НДК Парк (National Palace of Culture Park)

Sofia Synagogue

Opened in 1909, the Sofia Synagogue is one of the three largest in Europe. The Chandelier is supposedly the biggest in the Balkans.

On April 13, 1944, a bomb fell in the northeastern corner of the building, but did not explode. The building has been restored, and is used, but I could not find anyone who told me anything about services, if any.