2017/Austin/wordpress
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WordPress Intro was a session at IndieWebCamp Austin 2017.
- Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/wordpress
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IndieWebCamp Austin 2017 Session: WordPress Intro When: 2017-12-09 14:00 CST
Participants
- Tom Brown (session facilicator)
David Shanske (co-session facilitator)
Michael Bishop
Chris Aldrich (remote)
Marty McGuire
- Jon Lebkowsky
- ...add yourself
Notes
David Shanske ran us through the settings of various plugins, beginning with the main IndieWeb WordPress plugin.
Once installed, a list of IndieWeb related plugins appears in the WP admin under IndieWeb | Extensions.
Webmentions
Webmention plugin settings
- New entries under Settings | Discussion
- Must enable "Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article" to send WMs
- Must enable "Allow link notifications from other blogs..." to receive them.
- Homepage webmentions
- GWG puts homepage webmentions to his /about/ page
- Chris Aldrich sends them to a /mentions page: http://boffosocko.com/mentions/
Micropub
Micropub - a micropub server plugin. Has no options.
Potential options will be custom endpoints and settings for syndicate-to addon plugins
Bridgy Publish
- Under IndieWeb | Bridgy
- Registration section has links that let you renable bridgy publish for various services (FB, Twitter, ...)
- For each service, you can enable/disable bridgy publish for that service, or set it to be checked by default.
Syndication Links
- displays links from your posts to syndicated copies elsewhere. e.g. those made by bridgy publish
- has options like showing icons at various sizes, text, hidden links.
Post Kinds
- replaces Wordpress "Post Formats" feature
- all new icons added by
David Shanske today!
- display options
- "embed sites" will show reply context
- walked through example.
- create a new post
- Kinds box shows up in right sidebar
- choose a kind and the "Post Properties" section shows up below the post
- showed example for retrieving response data from a URL (article name and summary, site name, author info)
Showed examples from david.shanske.com
David Shanske started using OwnYourSwarm to have more location posts.
His checkins include location maps using the Simple Location Plugin
- Simple Location also adds a "Timezone" selector to posts.
- Added after a trip to Ireland due to OwnYourSwarm using his home timezone
- Pro-Tip: click the clock to detect and use the browser's timezone.
- The Timezone selector was not working on the demo machine (Chrome on macOS)
IndieAuth plugin replaces the WordPress admin login with the IndieAuth flow
Themes
- Independent Publisher
- SemPress
- ZenPress - in development on GitHub
- _mf2
- 2016 fork in GWG's Github repository