So this is kinda neat. I added a tiny little widget to my WordPress dashboard that allows me to speed up the process of publishing microposts (tweets) on my site.
I recently imported a decades worth of tweets on my site, and the hashtags were automatically added as regular tags. Now I want to go through and wrangle them. I know I can do a lot of this in core WordPress, but I’m hoping I can find some utilities that will make this easier.
After importing over a decade of tweets into my site, I had several improvements to offer to the import utility I used. I compiled my changes to the code, and submitted it as a pull request, detailing what I needed, and why.
WHEW what a process! I managed to get all of my tweets that I exported and deleted from Twitter two years ago, all imported into my website, including all of the photos and videos. I think I can finally say that I have centralized all of my content through alexstandiford.com now.
Huge thanks to @shawnhooper for building this importer, as it gave me a big leg up in the process.
I'll share a blog post that goes into details of the process soon.
I made several small improvements to my site today. Chief of which is finally getting the mysterious clock in the top-right corner functional on mobile. Also, dancing mermaids. 🧜♀️
I still have a vision of putting a music player on it, and discovered I can totally do this with Last FM. That's coming. We must have the spirit of 2000s era MySpace, or it's not authentic.
This presentation covers how I transformed my website from being a static digital portfolio into a dynamic hub, ingrained with my social presence, containing the most authentic version of me online.
I’ve started to use Cloudinary for media hosting solution on this site. It seems really good so-far, except for the fact that my media URLs aren’t working quite right when I upload from mobile. Hoping to get that resolved because other than that, this seems like the perfect solution to my problem.
Hey folks! I appreciate you taking the time to read and offer recommendations. I want a seamless way to upload media directly from the WordPress mobile app, but without hosting it on my site. The ideal service would handle large files and optimize them for the web. Anyone got suggestions? More context in the linked article.