Tagged with #wordpress

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• WordPress Admin isn't a great markdown writer

  Sander May 27 at 1:12 pm

  I spent an afternoon trying to make WordPress a markdown editor. wp-env, a small mu-plugin that unhooks the admin chrome, another mu-plugin that swaps TinyMCE for EasyMDE, Parsedown converting on save into post_content, with the raw markdown kept in post meta so editing round-trips. It works; task lists render, the toolbar behaves, edits come back as markdown.

  But it's still wp-admin. The textarea sits inside the post edit screen, surrounded by sidebars and metaboxes and the admin bar, and none of that goes away just because the editor itself is now markdown. The thing I'm doing is still configuring a post in an admin panel, not writing, and polishing the EasyMDE chrome made it look nicer but didn't change that.

  Maybe I should have just enabled the Micropub plugin and IndieAuth for the auth side, and post from iA Writer. iA Writer does the writing, WordPress does the storing and publishing, and I don't have to bend wp-admin into something it isn't.

  

  #wordpress #indieweb

• Sander July 17, 2025 at 9:29 am

  I wanted to explore how the Markdown experience in #WordPress is, but I'm unable to activate Jetpack in a Jetpack enabled WP Playground – this is another papercut with reconfiguring WP for blogging.

• Sander January 16, 2024 at 4:33 pm

  Finally updated my #WordPress Blocks In Plain English page with the WordPress 6.3 change in naming from Reusable Blocks to Synced Patterns. #technology

• Hide Trackbacks 1.1.4

  Sander March 25, 2020 at 2:30 pm

  Hide Trackbacks is a WordPress plugin that hides pingbacks and trackbacks from your website comments.

  The minimum supported WordPress version is now 5.0 and I've bumped up the version to indicate it is tested against the upcoming 5.4 release.

  #hidetrackbacks #projects #wordpress

• Sander February 26, 2020 at 2:55 pm

  Added a quick example to the wp_schedule_event() codex page as all the examples provided are broken in some way. https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_schedule_event/ #wordpress

• Sander February 26, 2020 at 2:24 pm

  I didn't know that Chassis extensions can be installed globally http://docs.chassis.io/en/latest/extend/#globally-installing-extensions #wordpress

  #globally

• Sander August 3, 2019 at 3:00 pm

  I’ve switched all my personal #wordpress experiments to Chassis this morning. I like the concept of plugins on a local dev setup. https://docs.chassis.io/en/latest/

• Sander June 28, 2019 at 2:46 pm

  ACF field groups with the same option position can be ordered by setting a key value. Key values starting with underscores are shown first. Field groups without keys are displayed inconsistently depending on the user role. #wordpress #protip #acf

• WordPress Canonical URLs for Category/PostName Permalinks

  Sander June 25, 2019 at 1:52 pm

  When the permalink format is set to %category%/%postname%/ then a post is available under category/postname links for all categories, as well as under all parent/child/postname links.

  If you use Yoast SEO and have set a primary category, that becomes the canonical URL that's used for SEO. If you don't then the postname for whatever category has a lower ID (was created first) becomes the canonical URL.

  #wordpress #dev

• What is the meaning of a site's Last Updated property?

  Sander June 18, 2019 at 9:27 am

  When running a WordPress multisite, in the site directory each site has a Last Updated property. I previously incorrectly assumed this reflected when the site's metadata changed, for example the site's attributes. However, archiving and deactivating a site does not change the Last Updated value, so what does it do in WordPress 5.2.1?

  As usual the best place to look is the WordPress codebase. It turns out that, on a multisite, this value is updated whenever a post is updated or deleted. It reflects the last content update, not the site's metadata.

  By inspecting the html and looking up the property name, we find that the function that updates this is called wpmu_update_blogs_date and there is an action hook wpmu_blog_updated that receives the site_id variable. This function can be called whenever we want to update the value. It isn't used anywhere else.

  If we're looking to update this date whenever the site's status changes, then via the same process it appears that he actions to hook into site attribute updates are in wp_maybe_transition_site_statuses_on_update so one could write a quick mu-plugin that updates the Last Updated property whenever these fire.

  #wordpress #multisite #dev