👉🏾 According to @RobertJBateman obtaining IP addresses & even usernames (via Federation‽) sans consent could violate #EuropeanUnion 🇪🇺 law 😱
👉🏾 A privacy policy may or may not be enough
👉🏾 If not compliant, I will migrate my #Mastodon, #Misskey & #Pixelfed instances out of #Europe.
Everyone's focusing so much on the storage/technology costs around the #WordPress#100YearPlan, but no one's talking about the personnel costs.
You have to pay engineers to keep this stuff running. Even if it's static content in the cloud, there's still infrastructure and a company to run around it.
$38k for 100 years sounds pretty cheap to me when you consider the costs to maintain continuity and staff for a business over that time.
🆕 blog! “Should the WordPress scheduler use datetime-local?”
There's a brilliant post by WordPress about how they've optimised some of the backend code to make it more efficient. So here's a suggestion for something else which can be optimised. If you want to schedule a blog post to be published later, you have to use this WordPress control: I find it mildly an…
I am SO happy that WP.com supports the #Fediverse this way. Now I don't have to depend on brid.gy to allow Mastodon comments to my posts to appear on my blog. I'll figure out how to do this after my walk.
Woohoo. So excited and am so glad I decided to ditch #Squarespace for #Wordpress this year.
More info: https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/
Mostly, it was because I was having domain issues that seemed too much of a pain in the ass to troubleshoot, and I decided that deleting was ultimately easier than figuring out a fix.
What can I say? I'm lazy.
But ultimately, I'd rather put all that stuff on the #Fediverse anyway.
Sure, I can't make everything look just so. But I think the truth is that most people don't care about the aesthetics of my blog theme. They care much more about receiving my messages.
When not considering themes, there's not much of a difference between maintaining a blog and updating a Fediverse account -- especially when you consider that so many platforms already support Markdown and HTML.
I'll go even further. #WriteFreely is a blog platform that has #ActivityPub integration out of the box. It works well.
And if you want a full CMS suite, both #WordPress and #Drupal are capable of being federated with an ActivityPub plug-in and they're getting better all the time.
At this point in time, I don't even want to blog without federation capabilities. That would be like opting for a unicycle instead of a bicycle. Sure, a unicycle is fun but not very practical.
If a key part of blogging is the practicality of being read -- but initiating dialogue -- then federation is extremely important. And it's becoming more and more important each day.
I saw someone saying that "why would #threads need to take so long? #WordPress and #Tumblr jammed out #ActivityPub support really quickly! Must be because they are figuring out how to do [nefarious things]!"
Tumblr doesn't have it yet.
This is serious "tell me you know absolutely nothing about how these systems are built and what is required for them without saying…" territory.
Dear gods. I know you want to be cynical and cynicism is even warranted, but can we not just make things up?
Looks like I’ve hit the final straw with ghost.org; got my first spam comments and there’s no UX I can find, nor documentation, on how to delete comments.
So what’s the least bad #newsletter solution right now? Ideally would prefer a good, integrated #Wordpress solution, rather than Substack.
Having a moment of annoyance with Mastodon. I know WordCamp Atlanta is going on today, and yet I can find nobody posting about it. Searched on Nitter and there are lots of posts. Leaving Twitter/X has disconnected me from an important professional community.
For those who follow me from one of the more WordPress focused instances, are there good WordCamp posts in your local feeds ?
Having some issues with #Blot. Namely search (it's awful), the fact I can't really develop locally and the fact that post publishing seems a bit funky when I specify a time for the post.
Anyway, thinking about a move back to either #Jekyll or #WordPress. Just not sure which - both have pros and cons.
Note: Please don't reply with recommendations for other platforms, I'm not looking for any.
For the record (pun intended), what is called a "post" in #WordPress and is used in #Automattic's terms and conditions is what other frameworks would refer to as "objects" or "records".
"Custom post types" are "models" in the context of MVC patterns.
Blog posts and news articles are posts. Images are posts. Contact form submissions are posts. Customer purchases in #WooCommerce are posts.
Is anyone else using Wordpress to host and share music? I'm asking specifically about Wordpress.com hosted sites and not self-hosted.
I can see it is pretty simple to upload individual files and have those playable on pages. But, I'm looking at how I can implement a player of sorts to have a collection of tracks that play together.
This would be for if I released a full record and want folks to be able to listen to it from start to finish without having to play each track individually.
I can see there are plugins for this kind of functionality, but the plan for Wordpress.com that allows plugins is a little more than I want to spend on hosting.
Should I just use the self-hosted version of Wordpress? Or maybe just make a Faircamp site at this point?
If you're a PC gamer, you already know the word "battlestation" also means your computer. Computers are practically essential for us now, we all have one or two in our homes: laptop, desktop, tablet, etc. But we all put them in different places. Psychologists have long presented evidence that if you keep a computer in the same room as your bed, it will affect the quality of sleep.
I've given some serious thought to creating a #Mastodon server just for the sake of merging this account to the #ActivityPub instance bridging my #Wordpress blog to the #Fediverse. It just feels such a burden to maintain all that just for the sake of presenting a clean, single entity on Mastodon.
Where does one find really advanced high quality content for people working with WP? 🤔
Professional and advanced in the real sense, not in the "10x Ninja Premium WP"- nonsense way. Somewhere that exclusively caters to people with 10+ years of experience and/or working on enterprise-level-quality stuff. Not about everyday stuff and just "using" WP but actual exceptional thoughts and solutions that bend WP instead of adapting to it.
Can anyone personally recommend a self-hosted stats package which works with WordPress and doesn't require JavaScript? All I need is per-post counts. I don't care about anything else.