These posts document experiments in hacking and tweaking Wordpress; I hardly call myself expert, but I do like to tinker under the hood. If there is something I can do for you, bark my way or visit me at http://cogdog.it
In the morning email was a message from one of the collaborators on last month’s Reclaim Open session on the Daily Create that used the fably domain named Combobulating.net — ” it looks as if FeedWordPress has stopped updating.” I thought this would be quick, likely matter that there were no site visitors to trigger the […]
Testing some fediversal URL auto embeds for WordPress happening in this here blog, now with slapping a naked URL on its own line: which embeds beautifully just like this- SHAZAM!~ Can we go beyond mastodon? What about a pixelfed URL? and yup. I am seeing an embedded pixelfed photo here. WINNING! As it turns out […]
In the WordPress Beginning there was a post and pretty much it was title, text, an author, a category/tag, a permalink, and that was it. It’s hard to imagine blogs or news style web sites anymore that do not have an icon image that represents it, that plays a prominent display role as a banner, […]
Against my better judgement (oh it was against the judgment of the web site owner) I am setting up the old school FeedWordPress syndication bus for the crew painting the Confabulating/Combobulating site for the upcoming Reclaim Open conference. I have discovered finally a Chat AI thing I can live with and love, TomGPT which yes, […]
I love WordPress. And I love the Fediverse. So together, I love the ActivityPub WordPress plugin that is the magic pixie dust betwxit them. This is an experiment. I published a post here yesterday A[I]s We May Not Think (nor search, nor link), hence autopmatically sent out to the wide fedispace via @barking which was […]
I can’t explain the why I did this much less why I am blogging about it, but I aim to skip some of the blather, and let you, humble visitor, just take a click at what I hatched yesterday (warning note, there are images that shake and flash a bit). So yeah, I have this […]
SPLOTs. Who can’t get enough of them? Most of the internet, I am sure. It’s been a while, aka five years, since I cued up Cher and Whats His Name for that funky toe tapping beat. It’s been literally years since I touched the WordPress themes that power SPLOTs. Yet weirdly, and with all the […]
Hey, it’s a tiny post, just like 2004 days. Short. Sweet. If you are actually reading this post, not just clicking a like button, you hopefully notice a bit more “zip” to it? Like a purring sports car engine. Like… …being now hosted in Reclaim Cloud. It was maybe a year or more ago, when […]
There’s times when I sit down at this here new post page thinking I have something to write about… and find out I have already done so. Well, the thing is open so I can add a bit more wood to the post pile. Just in February I wrote about a fleet of WordPress sites […]
While many people are slamming WordPress because of its baby in charge, I’m focussed still on the open source software I run on my own sites that are not impacted by the tantrums. Lately I have been putting to work on several sites, the WordPress ActivityPub plugin that makes your site publish to and suck […]
