Released Post Kind 3.3.0. This has a lot of major changes under the hood. A completely new load system for dependencies and a lot of parsing improvements from the Parse This library. On the user facing side, Post Kinds takes over generating RSS and Atom feeds to remove empty title properties, adds Aaron Parecki’s Media Fragment script, adds remote as an RSVP property, and a bunch of other little fixes.

The biggest change is the continuation of moving media related metadata into the attachment itself in the media library, rather than storing it in the post. When you edit the response properties, they will go directly into the attachment data.

In a future version, I hope to continue with that to add better displaying of photos. Right now, the title of the photo is not showing, only, because it is using the built in gallery to generate the photos, the caption, which maps to the summary property. I will release a future version that shows the title if the caption is not set, as well as some other related fixes.

There is always more to do. Being as this was a major change, I wanted to let it sit for a little while before I released another version.

Simple Location 3.8.1 released. Fixes two bugs and automatically adds location name to attachments if they have location data in the photo itself. Also takes the timestamp in the photo, recalculates timezone based on the location data, and stores a timestamp.

Price of mp3 album on Amazon…$19. Price of CD of same album $17 and comes with free Autorip…the mp3 album. Why?

Released an update to the JSONFeed plugin for WordPress. It addressed several open issues, noted compatibility with the latest version of WordPress, and adds comment feeds for parity with the defaults.

Episode 14 – Once a Quarter()


Summary: Our first episode since January. David Shanske and Chris Aldrich get caught up on some recent IndieWebCamps, an article about IndieWeb in The New Yorker, changes within WordPress, and upcoming events.

Recorded: May 19, 2019

Shownotes

6 camps later…
Austin
Online
New Haven
Berlin
Düsseldorf
Utrecht

National Duckpin Bowling Congress
Duck Tours
Streaming rigs for remote participation at IndieWeb Camps
Ad hoc sessions (? 00:11:28)

Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? (The New Yorker) by Cal Newport (? 00:13:50)

Swarm Account deletions and posting limits
New Checkin icon within the Post Kinds Plugin: example https://david.shanske.com/kind/checkin/
Weather now has microformats mark up in WordPress
Fatwigoo problems with icons
IndieWeb Bingo

Webmention Project

Project of updating Matthias Pfefferle‘s Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugins (? 00:26:10)

Readers & Yarns

Readers & Yarns update (? 00:40:50)
X-Ray
Indigenous Replacement: Final Indigenous Log: The Future of the App

Post Kinds Plugin

Post Kinds and new exclude functionality (? 00:48:15)

  • widgets
  • titleless posts
  • On this day

David’s list of 24 IndieWebCamps he’s attended
Looking back at past IndieWebCamp sessions and wiki pages for interesting ideas and new itches
Date and time stamps on webmentions
Call for tickets in WordPress
Subscribing to h-cards with WebSub
Is Mastodon IndieWeb?
Fixing IndieAuth
Improving scoping, particularly for multi-user sites

Coming up within the community

IndieWeb Book Club

IndieWeb Book Club is coming up featuring Mike Monteiro’s book Ruined by Design(? 01:13:04)

IndieWeb Summit 2019

9th annual IndieWeb Summit (Portland) is coming up in June. RSVP now.

Questions?

Feel free to send us your questions or topic suggestions for upcoming episodes. (Use the comments below or your own site using Webmention).
Perhaps a future episode on Micro.blog?

IndieAuth for WordPress Question

Thinking about the necessity of maintaining IndieAuth code in the Micropub plugin and now the Yarns Microsub plugin for WordPress.

I wanted to put out to any WordPress user for some input. The IndieAuth plugin creates an IndieAuth endpoint inside your WordPress installation. This means that you login to your site and that login generates a token to give Micropub, Microsub, or other clients in order to let them have access to your site.

Alternatively, if you don’t install it, the IndieAuth code inside the other plugins will connect to an external IndieAuth endpoint, defaultly indieauth.com. Indieauth.com, for example, delegates your login to a third-party site(Github, for examplle) on which you have an account that you link to from your website. So all you need is to add a link marked up properly to your site for that.

So, the question is, why would people want an external login to a built-in login? Since it uses the WordPress login system to get your credentials, you could install any number of login enhancements for WordPress that would work seamlessly to accomplish the same goal if you want to log in using a third-party site, for example.

It is definitely more secure for you to use authorization under your own control than delegating it to another site. To try and make my life easier, I would like to make Micropub and Microsub dependent on having the IndieAuth plugin installed.

The only use case presented for allowing an external site was…what if I want to sign into Site A with the credentials of Site B? That would be web sign in. There is functionality for that built into the IndieAuth plugin, but it probably deserves to be its own plugin so you can install it or not as the case may be.

Web sign in presents you with a URL and then, when you ask to log in, searches that URL for an IndieAuth authorization endpoint. If none is available, it would fail back on another technique, such as relmeauth…looking for alternative login providers.

Hoping for some comments on why people might want to maintain the external option.