Alright #CalcKey junkies, I'm a Mastodon instance admin and I'm an engineering group lead at Automattic (think the company of WordPress' founder) who is leading the work to add Mastodon as a supported service for our Jetpack Social product.
That said, what's the sell to get me to spend more time here?
"For all of its faults, it’s also worth remembering the good that this community has done. I think there are people from all corners of the globe that would agree."
@davidbisset@mattmedeiros I don't know how no one has encountered what I have, but my city has "web development" shops, marketing companies & ISPs that sell cheap WordPress sites, but don't have ANY programmers on staff.
#WordPress has drastically reduced web development jobs in my city.
The only, the only, thing keeping me on #WordPress instead of moving to #MicroBlog full time is a way to quickly, and easily, edit posts in bulk without navigating through all their contents. I get it. MicroBlog was never supposed to be a long form CMS blogging platform, but like, it has so, so, so, so, many other good things and plus, it has fully managed hosting! If someone could make a web/windows site that interfaces with MicroPub tech like a classic CMS, they would have a goldmine on their hands.
📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #19/2023 is out! It includes, but not only:
‣ New Phishing-as-a-Service Platform Lets Cybercriminals Generate Convincing #Phishing Pages
‣ #Netgear Routers' Flaws Expose Users to #Malware, Remote Attacks, and Surveillance
‣ 🇮🇹 🏎️ #WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposed #Ferrari Website to Hackers
‣ 🇯🇵 🚗 #Toyota Japan exposed data on millions of vehicles for a decade
‣ 📨 #Microsoft patches bypass for recently fixed Outlook zero-click bug
‣ 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 IRS gives #Ukraine tools to expose Russian oligarchs hiding riches in #crypto exchanges
‣ 🇨🇭 Multinational tech firm #ABB hit by Black Basta #ransomware attack
‣ 🐥 #Twitter Finally Rolling Out Encrypted Direct Messages — Starting with Verified Users
‣ 🇺🇸 Cybersecurity firm #Dragos discloses cybersecurity incident, extortion attempt
‣ 🇰🇵 North Korean hackers breached major hospital in Seoul to steal data
‣ 🇺🇸 #Google Now Lets US Users Search #DarkWeb for Their Gmail ID
‣ 🇺🇸 #IBM Delivers Roadmap for Transition to Quantum-safe #Cryptography
‣ 🇪🇸 Spanish police dismantle phishing operation linked to crime ring
‣ 🇺🇸 Microsoft #PatchTuesday: 40 Vulnerabilities, 2 Zero-Days
‣ 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 Justice Department Announces Court-Authorized Disruption of the Snake Malware Network Controlled by #Russia's Federal Security Service
‣ 🇺🇸 Feds seize 13 more DDoS-for-hire platforms in ongoing international crackdown
‣ #MSI Data Breach: Private Code Signing Keys Leaked on the Dark Web
‣ 🇮🇷 Microsoft: Iranian hacking groups join #Papercut attack spree
📚 This week's recommended reading is: "The Pentester BluePrint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker" by @phillipwylie and @crowgirl
Hey fellow #WordPress users, what is the easiest way of adding google fonts (locally hosted) to a #Gutenberg theme such as Davis Blocks with a free plugin? 🤔
I've used #Akismet on my #WordPress blog to block spam since its early days. The folks over at #Automattic have just informed me that I'm in violation of their license terms because the Google ads I have on it make it "commercial" so I can't use their free license.
I write on my blog for fun, and most years the ads bring in less than the cost of an Akismet license.
This is stupid and short-sighted on Automattic's part. I would have paid a reasonable price; this ain't it. Bye, Akismet.
Also, I've been waiting a month and a half for #Automattic to fix a problem with the social sharing functionality in their #Jetpack#WordPress plugin which is preventing me from linking my social accounts to my blog. In that time I've been given zero useful information and a great deal of outright wrong information by their support staff (read the ticket, it's a whopper). This does not put me in a position to be well-disposed toward giving Automattic money.
I might have had a bit of fun this evening playing around with various grids for the new #WordPress theme. Will be interesting to try and create them in the block editor.
Question for people who have ACTUALLY DONE THIS: how long does it take to convert a pre-existing #Wordpress site to a static-site generator, when you don't include the theme-building time and third-party utilities (like, I dunno, a separate analytics package)?
Have you done it in an afternoon? A day? A week?
I'm like to read some disaster stories AND some it-was-boringly-simples!
@techphotoguy hmm, interesting, I just did a whole talk on the subject of #WordPress site migrations at our last local #WPGR meetup.
I'm partially surprised as this, however I question how much site migration issues are a WordPress Core issue vs a hosting or plugin issue.
I do know, from my own research & testing, that plugins used to migrate sites can have vastly different requirements and compatibility with hosting providers.
I'd be curious to hear more from @chris on some of the details.
@chris so for clarity is this a call for #WordPress Core to include it's own site migration tool internally?
As I've work with other CMSs now such as #CraftCMS & #Strapi they really don't have this solved internally either. With the vast amount of hosting platforms, some better than others,
I'm still not sure that even something in WordPress Core can solve this, especially if we are talking that both the new host and old host expected to use the same DNS name.
OMG! Quick note to self: if you create a CPT in WordPress, do not create completely blank page templates as placeholders. Add something, anything in the template so you don't WSOD yourself.
You can't blame WP if you literally tell it to serve an empty page 🤦
Time to go outside for a walk and then make more coffee 😖 😂