My world on the web
Jan Boddez (jan.boddez.net)A little while ago, I switched one of my blogs from WordPress to ClassicPress (a fork of WordPress 4.9, so before the block editor was introduced) and back. There’s two reasons ClassicPress didn’t cut it for me: Quite a few plugins—even those that have nothing to do with the block editor—req…
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)In reading about the history of commonplace books, I figured it’d be nice to have a full listing of all the categories and tags on my website for public reference. So I’ve now added an Index page.
Side note, through the process I discovered I have 147 posts tagged ‘Chris Aldrich’.
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)I’ve been tinkering around with methods to automatically syndicate (POSSE) content from my personal website to Mastodon. I’ve been working at making a custom plugin which is far from finished. But a test post I made the other day, caught a few people’s attention[1][2].
What’s really funny to me is that this is a simple honeypot with a couple lines of JavaScript that wait a second before clearing one of the prefilled form values.
If a bot is using wp-comment-post.php to submit the comment without checking form field names first, which most are, it fails.
If a bot grabs the HTML, looks for a form, and submits it in under 1.5 seconds, which most others seem to do, it fails.
If a bot actually loads a full browser session and waits for JavaScript to load, it passes. Luckily, not many bots do that!
The Jetpack Plugin from Automattic leaves no one cold. And it polarizes extremely. Either you love it or you hate it. There doesn’t seem to be a grey area in between, does there?
I cannot give enough thanks for the Internet Archive WayBack Machine. I should give money, but instead I offer a blog post. And that’s a thing when I am looking to use or refer to an old post…
Easily share WordPress posts on Mastodon. Contribute to janboddez/share-on-mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.