Tag: wordpress

  • A Simpler WordPress Federation Process

    A Simpler WordPress Federation Process

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I spent some time looking into why my WordPress blog was de-federated. My suspicion is that when I switched from FTP to rsync, to upload the latest changes, it modified the .htaaccess file or the .well-known/webfinger file. That’s why my blog stopped posting to the Fediverse. I blamed Jetpack because I…

  • On WordPress and the Eleventy Experiment

    On WordPress and the Eleventy Experiment

    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhilst I have found WordPress to be a useful tool since around 2005 or so, recent changes have encouraged me to dump the platform. The first of these changes was when WordPress moved to react because this made the site slower, and heavier to use. React also has links to Facebook, and…

  • WordPress, AI, and the Human Niche

    WordPress, AI, and the Human Niche

    Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery day I spend one to two hours thinking about what to write for my blog. Yesterday I noticed that WordPress wants to get AI to draft the first version of posts using the AI model of our choice, as long as it’s American, and take away the hours of blank page…

  • Sliding to 11ty from Hugo With Gemini Help

    Sliding to 11ty from Hugo With Gemini Help

    Reading Time: 4 minutesI currently use Hugo as a static blog. Before using Hugo I had tried with 11ty and failed because I couldn’t find documentation that suited my contextual understanding. It’s after a lot of trial and error that I eventually chose to experiment with, and then stick with Hugo since 2024 or earlier.…

  • Conversing to the Fediverse With WordPress

    Conversing to the Fediverse With WordPress

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I saw a post stating that WordPress can speak with the fediverse more effectively. For months we could post to the fediverse but if we replied to a toot via WordPress it would be lost. Those on Mastodon instances would comment but be "ignored". For months I thought that it…

  • More WordPress Thoughts

    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few days I ran ClassicPress rather than WordPress and it ran fine. I noticed that sliding between WordPress and ClassicPress is not as simple as it used to be. Now we need to find the build URL and I couldn’t find documentation about what the Build URL is. Having said…

  • A Possible WordPress Implosion

    A Possible WordPress Implosion

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWordPress and WordPress engine are fighting at the moment. Mullenweg wants WP-Engine to pay its fair share, or contribute more developer hours to keep improving WordPress as a whole. To be more specific “a significant percentage of its revenues for a license to the WordPress trademark.” source “The abbreviation ‘WP’ is not…

  • A Pi5, WordPress and ClasssicPress

    A Pi5, WordPress and ClasssicPress

    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I started to install wordpress on the Pi5 and I got it to work. I then started to install ClassicPress via the ClassicPress switchtoclassicpress plugin and got blocked. I was blocked because in order for WordPress to update plugins, themes and wordpress it needs to have access to itself via…

  • The Site Has Migrated

    The Site Has Migrated

    Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough it is absurd i decided to migrate the blog from https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/ to https://blog.main-vision.com/. It is absurd because the website has been at the same URL since 2004 or so, and to move it is to lose years of hyperlinks. At the same time the updated URL should be preferred by search…

  • ClassicPress and the Fediverse – Not Quite Ready

    ClassicPress and the Fediverse – Not Quite Ready

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I experimented with migrating my blog from WordPress to ClassicPress to see whether ClassicPress plays nicely with the fediverse. It does but there is room for improvement. If you want instructions on how to migrate from wordpress you can find the instructions here. Summarised, you download the switch to ClassicPress plugin,…