I went to my first European WordCamp last week, which coincidentally was also the first WordCamp Toulouse. It was such a nice event great sessions, so well organized, nice branding, tasty food (with wine, and chocolatine, of course), friendly people! The live transcriptions (from https://www.lemessageur.com) were fantastic, and super helpful for someone still weak [ ]
I just got home from nearly two-weeks of conference travel, and although I m still trying to dissect all of experiences I have a few thoughts I wanted to share. First, the context of my travels: If I had to summarize all these experiences, it s: WordPress is doing well in the higher ed space, but we [ ]
I had previously used Mark Cheret s Footnotes plugin to, well, create footnotes in WordPress. WP 6.3 introduced this functionality natively into the block editor, and since then I ve wanted to convert all my instances to use the new core block but hadn t got around to it yet. That is, until I ran composer update today [ ]
This is cool – WordPress 6.2 (coming out in a few days!) adds the ability to specify a rel attribute on social icons in the Social Icons block. This makes it super simple to verify your domain with a Mastodon account when using a Full Site Editor block theme; just drop the Social Icons block [ ]
Spoiler: It s Nitter. I made my last post to Twitter today (at least until the situation changes): To elaborate on that (in order of preference): Enter Nitter Unfortunately not everyone that I followed on Twitter is available in other places, which has been the main reason to stick around this long. I m now using Nitter [ ]
I’ve been concerned for a while about Apple’s long-term commitment to iCloud email, and have been considering the painful task of switching my primary email address from my 10+ year old @me.com address to one at my domain. That is not to say I think they’re actually going to shut down iCloud email, but their apparent [ ]
Starting with 5.5, WordPress now generates its own sitemap.xml without the need of a plugin. It s possible to filter the results to exclude a specific post using the below filter: That filter takes a familiar WP_Query argument, so it s quite simple to add any additional filters, for example if you wanted to exclude posts from [ ]
A few things from the first WordCamp Toulouse
Back in March I shared a few iOS shortcuts to add transactions to a Firefly III when on the go. Both Shortcuts and Firefly III s API have changed in the interim, and I ve finally got around to updating my shortcuts to reflect those changes. The bulk of the changes for iOS 13 were just structural, [ ]
Moving hundreds or thousands of notes from SimpleNotes (to Apple Notes in my case)? This script aught to help clean up a few things for a better structure after importing. Converts tags in *.txt files to #tag format for easier searching. Preserves original modified timestamp. Updates the modified timestamps to a UTC offset (if specified) [ ]