I learned about Webmention from Manton Reece, after he launched Micro.blog. Basically, Webmention is a standard for having conversations on the web, between different websites. These can be interpreted as comments or whatever a site’s owner wants them to be, e.g. likes, etc. To get these running under WordPress, you will need to either code Webmention into your theme or take the easy path and install two plugins…
Angelika Borucka:
WordPress 5.0 will soon be a thing and it might feature a brand new content editor, that will take place of the good old TinyMCE—Gutenberg. It’s still in development and the first digit in the version number doesn’t mean it actually left the beta stage.
I got curious, so I’ve installed the beta plugin from WordPress repository to check it here. Let’s see!
This is actually pretty cool and I’d wish they hurry and ship it, bug free hopefully.
I’m so tempted to move away from WordPress to Ghost or Nanoc. Both are enticing, but then I remember that many things come for free with WP…
Don Melton:
Then again, what the hell do I know? I’m just an old Web browser guy. So I’ll leave you with this quote, sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein, that I kept in my .plan file back when that was a normal thing to have around:
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
I’m just trying to get people to think a little bit more before they deploy. I certainly wish I had here.
I’m in the same boat as Don — I really should overhaul this site to make it simpler, so it would hopefully load faster.
I backed Manton’s Reece Micro.blog Kickstarted campaign a few months ago. His goal was to get all of us to have more control over the content that we publish. This is especially important in times such as these when you’re never sure when someone will shut down or change their goals.
WP Super Cache is a decent cache’ing solution for WordPress, but I couldn’t get the preload function to work on a VPS — it wouldn’t even start. What the preload function does is it pre-caches all the posts, tags, and so on, to make everything faster (in short).
I created my first linked list blog a few years back — it was in Polish and I ran it for a bit over seven years. I launched Infinite Diaries since, but I never got to answer one question which people have been asking me for years: How do I hack WordPress to create a ‘Linked List Blog’?
I bought Workflow for iOS [App Store] on the day it came out. The app was already amazing back then, but lacked a few features which could help me use it on a daily basis. The most recent update added WordPress support however. It took me a little over thirty minutes to put together a rough workflow for publishing linked posts on Infinite Diaries. I’ve been perfecting that workflow ever since and I’m finally ready to share it with the world.
Ev Williams published a piece detailing Medium’s new API a few days ago …
Not all content needs to be written in Medium to benefit from our network and interaction. To make it easier to publish to Medium — and, therefore, broaden the scope of content available to readers — we’re opening up a publishing API.
The API lets you write in a desktop or mobile editor and publish straight to Medium.
Katie Zhu wrote about the Publishing API in greater detail—she mentions three Mac apps which I use or have used at various points in my life: iA Writer, Byword and Ulysses. I currently write in the latter and the new Medium announcements have made me reconsider running my own WordPress installation. Not worrying about anything vs. having complete control? A tough decision. Then again, Medium has created a WordPress plugin which allows for cross-posting between the two platforms.
I have three choices:
Not sure what to do… but I know I would really like to experiment with Medium more.