Am I part of the Indieweb?
Juhis tells us that there is no membership card for the Indieweb blogging community. I like his thesis as I sort of feel like I'm at least on the periphery…
Site design refresh ‘completed’
I’ve completed the site theme update as I mentioned yesterday. It isn’t completely finished: some things are still broken (sorry, macOS Safari users), and I’m not happy yet with some elements of the appearance.
But I did accomplish the main objectives I had. Ubergeek Kelly’s World is now using a more ‘modern’ theme that works with the plugins that were causing problems with the Twenty Fourteen theme I was using previously. And as part of the change I implemented the permalinks change (wth redirects from the old structure) I wanted to make. There are some additional details below for the ‘tech-curious’.
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Pingbacks, Webmentions, and IndieAuth on WordPress
I spent some time thinking today about how other blogs can refer to mine. This included a great conversation in the #blaugust Discord channels that was started in response to a post by JCProbably on manually implementing ‘community echos’.
I am what I like to call ‘constructively lazy’. I know that manually implementing cross-blog post references is not going to work for me, so I’ve always relied on the concept of ‘pingbacks‘. WordPress supports this protocol, and if everyone used WordPress that would work well enough.
But many bloggers today avoid WordPress for various reasons. So what do the ‘cool kids’ these days do to create connection between their blog posts? Apparently, the answer is Webmention, and so I decided to quickly activate something to connect this blog to that protocol.
Please note that, as per the ‘Is it Working?’ section below, the current plugin versions of both Webmention (5.3.2) and IndieAuth (v4.5.0) introduce bugs in WordPress 6.6.1.
(more…)NOTE: the featured image on this post is AI generated. I love the spelling errors 😉