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Enhance Your WordPress Plugin: Add Live Preview using WordPress Playground
Have you ever hesitated to install a new WordPress plugin, worried about whether it would meet your needs? Likely, many potential users of your plugins feel the same way. As a WordPress user myself, I greatly value the ability to “try before you buy” when it comes to plugins. Fortunately, by the way of WordPress…
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cll Now Works With Local Files And Improves Output Formatting
I’ve written about my cll tool before and it is still my go-to way of communicating with LLMs. See the Github repo. As a developer, having llms available in the Terminal is very helpful to me. Write a file to disk A lot of my prompts ask the LLM to create a file for me.…
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Submitting Patches to Github with WordPress Playground
Today, I’d like to talk about a new step I added to the WordPress Playground Step Library that makes it easier to configure WordPress Playground in a way that you can easily submit Pull Requests to the Github repository where the project is hosted. What is the Step Library? It is a tool that makes…
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WordPress Playground Step Library
WordPress Playground is this fascinating tool that allows you to run WordPress without a server. It achieves this by running PHP in your browser by using WASM. It sounds cool, and it makes for numerous interesting demos, as its original creator Adam Zielinski showed at WordCamp Europe 2024: WordPress Playground – use WordPress without a…
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Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance
tl;dr: Three plugins can transform your WordPress install to your personal Mastodon Instance: ActivityPub, Enable Mastodon Apps, and Friends. As you might know, I am the author of the Friends plugin for WordPress. I started this in 2018 with the idea (which I later described in a vision post) that something like Facebook (with private…
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The Beauty of Simple Bookmarklets
Jeremy Keith posted about bookmarklets that he uses for testing websites where he specifically likes those that just pass on the current URL to a service. Those bookmarklets typically have a structure like: I use those for my Friends WordPress plugin, too. That’s the one where you can follow people via RSS or ActivityPub and…
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My FOSDEM 2024 Talk: Migrating the WordPress Community from Slack to Matrix
When I submitted my application for a talk at FOSDEM 2024, we were still on for migrating the WordPress community to Matrix. Alas, there were many factors that led us to pause the transition indefinitely, announced by Matt at the Q&A of State of the Word 2023. The most important factors were accessibility problems, some…
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Keeping A Family Wiki
Members of my (some of them extended) family recently entered and left life, which is always an opportunity to think about my family. I’ve written before about my own efforts to keep family history in a wiki which is powered by my Family Wiki WordPress plugin (Github). Every relative gets their own page, like on…
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Mastodon API Tester
tldr: Use the Mastodon API Tester to play with the Client API of Mastodon. I’ve created the WordPress plugin called Enable Mastodon Apps which does a seemingly small but powerful thing: it enables you to access your WordPress blog using Mastodon apps like Tusky or Ivory. This can be used to browse your own blog…