Is there a best practice to log errors in production without having to enable WP_DEBUG? I could enable it, disable WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY and set a WP_DEBUG_LOG, but WP_DEBUG should never enabled on prod I guess?
And I found the internal fatal error handler WP_Fatal_Error_Handler which seems to only echo errors.
The second post in the "Strange experiences with Automattic" series is out.
This one covers my first day, the Grand Meetup and how things were for me in the beginning.
Hanlon’s Razor has limits and when the extent of mismanagement goes beyond anything that can be described as accidental or a misunderstanding, then it no longer applies and the issues are in fact systemic.
New #Introduction - been here since 2018 across various instances.
I’m Shauny, from the UK but we travel a lot, I’m gay, married, and in my 30s 🏳️🌈
I love technology! Used to run a small web development company but retired super early. Now I just do a little bit for charity plus hobby work (building a #DoctorWho website).
I like to try and keep fit by running and attempting to lift weights, I can sail a boat but can’t drive a car, I love TV & movies (mostly Sci-Fi, fantasy and horror). I also love LEGO and board games.
I’m gay, pro trans, pro choice, left wing, feminist, anti-capitalist & vegan. Do I just like being difficult? 😂
Can a free WordPress account still be verified on your profile? I just recently made a blog for writing and podcasting stuff. I'm so new to all of this, and I'm really curious.
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 use Markdown a lot & it works well for me. Having recently moved to Wordpress, I find the Gutenberg-type editors very nice for fancy effects, but not for just writing.
Unsurprisingly, I'm facing 24 WP plugins that promise Markdown heaven, and I'd rather not try them all.
Anyone out there would like to share experiences in this matter, please do. @wordpress perhaps?
When writing the initial version of our project plan as signed and agreed with by NlNet we didn’t know yet about the dynamics of the community, specifically about how the cooperation between the maintainers of the #WordPress#ActivityPub plugin and #Mobilizon would be like. The level of collaboration with other #Fediverse developers would determine whether our project goals could only be achieved through a series of workarounds, or whether we could work together to strengthen interoperability and compatibility in the Fediverse.
Mobilizon was, until our project, the only Fediverse application with true event federation. #Gancio limits its ActivityPub capabilities to sending notes, but is working on a true federation of events, and other services like #Friendica have a very different approach to events: their implementation focuses on sending invitations rather than publishing events. As is usual with any software, you will find a lot of small bugs if you have not done any tests beforehand. In the case of Mobilizon, this was not possible since there were no alternative platforms to do the tests with, so the only option was to test the Federation with other Mobilizon servers. We seem to be the first and we are fascinated and incredibly grateful for the willingness and prioritization that such issues have among the other developers (thanks to tcit and les). The issues may seem small, but they have a big impact: #304#33#321#1509#1507#1392#1385#1388#1387#1378#1376.
The other deciding factor for us was that we didn’t know how close the interaction with the upstream WordPress AktivityPub project would be. The exchange of ideas and the desire for a joint solution is strong. We would like to thank @pfefferle again for the regular exchange, his ideas and inspiration, without his commitment to the community our project would be less sustainable.
Tasks done (almost)
We published a repository that aims to make it easy for other developers, including ourselves to start developing and debugging WordPress along with Mobilizon.
We have created a pull request to add management of various ActivityPub transformers to the admin interface. The current implementation basically works, but we have a lot to polish and improve on our roadmap.
Using that patched ActivityPub plugin we explored writing transformers for two popular event plugins, this gave us a lot insight on what is important. These transformers already have fundamental compatibility with Moblizon.
Updating our About us page showing some information who we are.
Implement the followers list of the application actor in the admin UI along with the ability to reject, approve, and remove followers. We are very inspired by how #PeerTube has solved this in the admin UI. This of course includes a an option as:manuallyApprovesFollowers that can be set for an ActivityPub actor within WordPress.
Write an initial draft of the user documentation informing about custom ActivityPub transformers and instance-to-instance federation with Mobilizon. The target audience will be non-tech people. Parts of this will also be used as a non-tech description of our project.
Improve the admin UI and propose a solution to handle the settings for each transformer, if there are any.
Write more transformers for other popular event plugins to discover common pitfalls.
If you have any questions, ideas, or would like to help us, for example by testing our progress yourself if your operate a WordPress site with events, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We don’t care if you have technical experience or what your background is: any kind of involvement is valuable to us.
Has anyone found a #Wordpress theme they can recommend? I'd love something minimal that would work for a combination of professional site with personal blog that I don't have to put a lot of work into. Thanks
Still on the #WordPress <=> #Mastodon front, it feels powerful to give readers the alternative to reply with comments on a post using either WP or Mastodon. Hat tip: @michael
When I see ideas like this from @louie, it makes me want to put more effort into my blog so badly. Every time I start to though, I immediately talk myself down to "Well, I don't have time to write anything too long." and I always just end up back at posting things here on Mastodon. There is something so cool about the idea of blogging but I always slap the "micro" on the front and end up just posting here. Maybe #ActivityPub in #Wordpress is the answer?
Key takeaway: WordPress can be at least as fast as a static site generator (but still retain the value-added features of a CMS), so long as you're willing to put the work in.
I've noticed that almost every time I share a link from one of my #Wordpress blogs here, my blog crashes for a dozen seconds to a minute or two. Has anyone else encountered that?
Is it a WordPress problem, not playing well with #ActivityPub?
Is it my host? Plugins (that's going to be fun to troubleshoot 😒)?
If anyone knows, I'm all ears.
(Adding #Mastodon and #Fediverse hashtags, I know people who follow them know about these kinds of things 😉)
I still don't get the posts from the #wordpress-to-#fediverse plugin on my main dice.camp account. I do get them on my #friendica a though and can then boost them from #mastodon.
Now I noticed that it actually published multiple of my previous posts after the current article I posted today.
So while one key piece of the #Fediverse is that entire instances can be blocked as a form of moderation, and keeping things safe for people. I think it should be clearly stated to newcomers to any instance if entire platforms such as #Meta / #Tumblr / #Medium / #WordPress.com / #Bluesky (through a bridge) are being blocked.
If someone wants to have a federated identity and follow family/friends on Meta then they are SOL if an instance completely blocks the entire platform. #fediblock
🆕 blog! “Server-Side Rendering of Embedded Markdown Code Snippets in WordPress”
Because I'm a grumpy old man, I don't use Gutenberg or Block themes on my WordPress. Instead, I write everything in Markdown. When I write code snippets in Markdown, they look like this: ```php $a = 1; echo $a; if ($a < 5) { // Do Something return thing( $a, true …
Just a friendly reminder https://wpfront.page is going strong. Visit a couple of times a week and pretend it’s your morning #WordPress newspaper catching you up on the important stuff quickly.
This is a silly idea. But it works. I saw Dan Q wondering about plaintext WordPress themes - so I made one. This is what this blog looks like using it: The Code You only need two files. An index.php and a style.css. The CSS file can be empty, but it needs to exist - […]