| January 30th, 2019

I added myself and this site the the IndieWeb wiki WordPress Examples page earlier. It felt a little narcissistic, if I’m honest!

I’ve not added K to the WordPress Themes page for now, as I don’t think it’s ready yet, but I’ll add it in due time (or let others judge it worthy of inclusion).

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Chris M.

| January 29th, 2019

Bit of a bad brain evening, so I’ve spent the time assembling more sisters to distract myself. Somehow I’ve ended up with a couple more Battle squads than I expected! Still got the Repentia to go…

Hopefully the weather improves soon, so I can get them primed!

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Small Site/K Theme Updates

Chris M.

| January 29th, 2019

I implemented proper pagination between archive pages last night, which should help making getting around the site slightly easier. I still need to implement pagination for pages/posts that are split into distinct pages. I’m not going to implement comment pagination, because I don’t like it.

Alongside this, I’ve added some templates for archive pages and search results. There’s nothing much to these, but it does give me flexibility to give these their own special formatting if I want to.

I need to come up with a better archive page than the current “Sitemap”. The current “design” was inspired by the archive page on Daring Fireball. It works fine if you’re only posting a couple of items a week, but in January I posted 112 items¹. I’ll probably keep the sitemap for discoverability purposes, but a more friendly archive page has been added to the todo list.

That’s almost twice the previous high water mark of August 2018. ↩

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Chris M.

| January 25th, 2019

I need to take a break from the merry-go-round of mf2/parser compatibility. I excitedly thought it was fixed. But it wasn’t. I’ve made some further changes, and it might be fixed, but there’s a good chance it’s still broken in some obscure way… IndieWebify.me refuses to recognise my Like and Bookmark posts properly, even though every other parser I throw at example URLs comes back fine? ~~Last I checked, IndieNews still refuses to return anything but “error: no link found.”~~ Update: something I did today must have fixed this… I fixed a typo in an earlier post, and suddenly it was on IndieNews ?‍♂️

It’s getting a bit stressful, to be honest, and that’s means it’s time to move on to another task before it burns me out on the whole project. I’ll come back to it again in a while, hopefully have a break-through and iron out the kinks.

In better news, I do have some custom gallery markup up and running, and the h-card in the sidebar is now a fully-fledged widget. Baby steps…

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Chris M.

| January 25th, 2019

Oh, hey – I just noticed the beta rules for using Forge World’s Adeptus Custodes units in Warhammer 40,000 have been updated to include *all* of the units, not just the 3-4 that were in the first draft: https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/Warhammer_40000/Forgeworld_Custodes_Datasheets.pdf ?

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The Bloodied Rose

Chris M.

| January 25th, 2019

While I was picking up my order of Celestine, I made sure to grab The Bloodied Rose, by @Danacea

I’ve heard nothing but good things about this one ?

Shared to IndieWeb.xyz

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Unboxing “Celestine” by Andy Clark

Chris M.

| January 25th, 2019

Time to take a look at my lovely limited edition copy of Andy Clark’s Celestine!

I do like the current Black Library packaging. It’s very minimalist.

Black Library seem to be continuing their recent trend of using a themed sticker to secure the decorative wrapping

The cover really does feel like a tapestry. It’s very touchable.

This is very similar to the design of the Spear of the Emperor limited edition.

I’ve seen this artwork somewhere before (minus the quote), but I can’t remember where…

Obligitory photo of the copy number and author signature.

The packaging and presentation of the book is definitely very nice. Hopefully I can get stuck into the story later this evening!

Shared to IndieWeb.xyz

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Chris M.

| January 16th, 2019

Following on from my last bookmark, it seems to be really simple to reactivate the built-in Links Manager for WordPress. Just add the following to your theme’s functions.php:


/**
 * Re-enable the built-in Links manager
 */
add_filter( 'pre_option_link_manager_enabled', '__return_true' );
// Add Shortcode
add_shortcode( 'links', 'wp_list_bookmarks' );

I haven’t checked to see if there are any “gotcha’s” with this, but it seems to work as expected. Once done, add the shortcode [[links]] to a page, passing in any parameters as per wp_list_bookmarks().

~~I’ve already added this to K.~~

Update 18/Jan/2019: After some further testing, the shortcode doesn’t actually work very well, so I don’t recommend you use that. I’ve switched my Links page to use a page template which calls wp_list_bookmarks() directly instead. The Links Manager still works, though I had some early issues with assigning categories… deleting them and starting over seemed to fix whatever internal taxonomy relationship was broken. I’m going to leave the Links Manager activation filter in K, but I’ve removed the shortcode.

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Chris M.

| January 7th, 2019

Just had one of the back garden fence panels implode under the high winds, and several others looking like they might go too. Just the thing I needed first thing in the New Year.

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Chris M.

| January 3rd, 2019

I’m still geting used to the ins-and-outs of writing and syndicating content. So far it seems that:

If there’s no title, Brid.gy posts the contents of the post, with link to the original if specified
If there is a title, that is used as the content of the link
@-mentions and tags need to be added into whichever text Brid.gy will use for the tweet. I’d really like it if any tags could be pulled from links marked u-category, as space allows.

Photos tagged with the class u-photo will be attached to the tweet (up to four). I’ve added something to my theme’s functions.php to automatically add this to all photos by default, and I’ll remove it from any I don’t want to share.

Right now, I’m not syndicating by default, and I don’t think I will turn this on either. I like having the control; the only posts I’m likely to want to tweet out are my hobby-related entries.