Category: WordPress
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Introducing FediBoost
A few months ago, I turned on the ActivityPub plugin for this site. I loved it—my blog became followable from Mastodon, posts federated out automatically, and people could reply to my posts from their own instances. This is what indieweb is all about. But something bugged me. My posts were federating from my site’s identity—@kraft@kraft.blog—which…
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Press This + Gutenberg = ❤️
Almost a decade ago, I helped rebuild Press This for WordPress 4.2. It was one of my favorite contributions—a tool that embodied what I love about WordPress: making publishing frictionless. Select some text, click a bookmarklet, and you’re blogging. I even wrote Press This Extended to add the customization options that the “Decisions, Not Options”…
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Conflation Hurts
The last few weeks have been hard for those in the #WordPress community. I’m trying my best to focus on the work ahead, but recent events have made that more challenging and complicated for folks on the ground. I have friends who work or have worked at WP Engine, and I obviously have friends at…
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Contributing to WordPress
I know the big dogs are fighting (and disclaimer I work for one of the big dogs and I used to make my living building websites using a theme framework the other one owns now), but a ton of contributors contribute because they want to help the community. Not because they were sponsored, though I…
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WordPress Adds Emoji 13.1 Support
WordPress 5.8 will add Emoji 13.1 support.
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Automatic Updates in WordPress
What are automatic updates in WordPress even? Forced updates? What about the UI? Here’s a full explainer.