Asides | Page 10 | Mr.Kapowski

| January 17th, 2019

“For the last week or so I have been having issues with parsing sites. Where I was getting some information in the past, I am not getting very little.”
Aaron Davis ( )

I’ve noticed this issue as well recently – even when parsing known “good” sites.

Coincidentally, I was also having issues with services like IndieWeb.xyz parsing my own site, even though every parser and validator I threw at my site picked up the microformats without issue – including my local install of Parse This. In the end I tracked the issue to the WordFence for WordPress security plugin tagging the incoming request as a hostile bot and rate-limiting/blocking it in response. Infuriatingly, this was working fine for the previous few months. I’ve turned off WordFence and my site seems to get picked up properly now.

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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.