External link icon shortcode preference
There are a number of WordPress plugins that will allow you to apply external link icons automatically, but that’s not really my preference. I like…
Putting pages into a WordPress RSS feed
Every once in a while I want to put pages into an RSS feed on a self-hosted WordPress site. When I do this, I prefer…
Looking for a new feed to post aggregator
For the last couple of years, we’ve been aggregating the dispatches from the people in our network. We do this so we can keep up…
Working with breadcrumbs tied to menus
Creating breadcrumbs from menus in WordPress can be very handy.
Fixing some old media library folder problems in WordPress
One of the WordPress websites we manage had a legacy media library problem. There were thousands of files in the uploads folder and they weren’t…
Converting a WordPress site to a flat HTML site
In the past I’ve experimented with archiving old WordPress sites by converting them to HTML files and hosting them at archival URLs. The plugin I…
Documents library for WordPress
This looks handy.
Images to RSS Code Snippet
We use a code snippet to add Featured Images into our RSS feeds, but we wanted to see if that was still the best way…
Controlling Subscriber Notifications: Solution
In the end we found a pretty simple solution to our problem: how to keep notifications from going out to subscribers using Jetpack in Gutenberg….
Default Featured Images
This week we did some research. We have a hub site, and we know that not all of our contributors remember (or choose) to use…
Excerpts for pages
It’s nice to have page excerpts. Here’s one way to do it: https://workingwithpixels.com/add-excerpts-to-wordpress-pages.html
Visual Portfolio, Posts & Image Gallery
In our search for a masonry display that would display full posts we tried “Visual Portfolio.” It isn’t quite what we were looking for, but…
Noblogs dot org
Wow, these folks look busy: https://noblogs.org/ Connecting radical people. Non commercial, antifascist, antisexist, privacy-oriented blog platform.
Tools for managing WordPress media library
Media from FTP: similar to Media Sync, and is helpful way to scan and index files in uploads uploads folders. (update: doesn’t seem to work)…
Sassy Social Share plugin
These are nice options for some blogs, for displaying the sharing buttons: Example here: https://www.bruceelkin.com/articles/