First Night of ChanukahWhy 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.
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.
I’m back from my vacation, where I spent a lot of time field-testing my venue code. As far as I can tell, it is working perfectly, but field-testing is what allows me to figure out the tweaks I need to make the experience better, so there will be some point releases over the coming weeks as I make the experience better. Here is an example of one of my venues…I tried to use some code to import old checkins at venues and create new local venues replacing ones I’d linked to remotely. However, it did create some duplication, so I will need to spend some time cleaning it up. Also, if I want to classify my venues and provide descriptions, I’ll need to add those.
Simple Location 5.0.0 for WordPress Released
Weeks in the making, I’ve released version 5 of Simple Location. Several weeks in the making, it is a major rewrite of the lower level code, and will open up to a variety of different future features.
This version retires Zones, the way I used to keep where I was private by default. But it does so by replacing it with a long desired feature…venues.
The way I am seeing data is changing as a result. By default, the display for a post will display the venue name if attached, then by default the location taxonomy, and finally, the textual description attached to the post. Displaying the location taxonomy by default is an option in the settings.
Right now, Venues can be created manually in the interface or created automatically if there is a check-in posted via Micropub. I have yet to create an interface to do it during the posting process, so there is work to do in a future version.
I’ve added some new providers, and done a lot of tweaks to existing ones.
I was eager to get this out, because I will be traveling this week, and would like to make some venues.
I keep trying to sing four part harmony by myself.
Working on introducing venues to my site….URLs that represent a specific place, as opposed to location, which I already have at /location, which represents posts in a city or town. Hoping to have it done before I go places on the 8th.
Why don’t people wear hats outdoors anymore in large numbers? In the past, it was considered inappropriate to go bareheaded in some contexts.