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CC: Jacky.

The hardware is a Broadcom-based chip built in to my Asus ROG motherboard. Broadcom are known to not play well with Linux, so there’s that. The thing is, it used to work fine out of the box on older kernels, which I guess is when my expectations were set. It wasn’t until sometime during 4.x and onwards I started having these sorts of issues on fresh installs.

That said, it’s nowhere near as bad as the old days of Intel Centrino and the kludge that was ndiswrapper. At least I don’t have to recompile my kernel from source these days!

My gut was right 😃. You can add extra icons without editing the plugin, by adding something similar to this to your theme’s functions.php file:

function wp4632_extra_site_icons( $return, $url) {
	$sites = array(
		'chrisaldrich.wordpress.com' => 'wordpress',
		'www.reading.am' => 'book',
	);
	$parsed = parse_url( $url );
	$return = false;
	if ( false !== $parsed ) {
		$host = $parsed['host'];
		if ( array_key_exists( $host, $sites ) ) {
			$return = $sites[ $host ];
		}
	}
	return $return;
}
add_filter( 'syn_link_mapping', 'wp4632_extra_site_icons', 10, 2);

For maximum upgrade safety, I put modifications like this into a child theme.

Without similar code in my theme, this post doesn’t display the (test) Mastodon syndication link… but with it the link and icon are displayed. The $sites array can be modified with any URLs you want mapped to a suitable icon in the set.

Hope this helps you out!

I’d need to spend some time looking into this to confirm either way, but my gut tells me you should be able to use the syn_link_mapping filter and a function to make these tweaks via your theme’s functions.php file, without hacking the plugin code itself.

I want to do something similar for my Mastodon profile link, so I’ll try to take a look into it in the next couple of days 😃

In my case, the photo is coming from the Post Kinds WordPress plugin parsing it from an hCard on the url I’m replying to, and the theme displaying it. It can be removed under the Author details:

FINALLY.

Not just you, and not just on Safari! I’ve been having all sorts of visual and interaction oddities with the admin area since I updated, and I’m using Firefox.