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WordPress Intro was a session at IndieWebCamp Austin 2017.

• Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/wordpress
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IndieWebCamp Austin 2017 Session: WordPress Intro When: 2017-12-09 14:00 CST

Participants

• Tom Brown (session facilicator)
• David Shanske (co-session facilitator)
• Michael Bishop
• Chris Aldrich (remote)
• Marty McGuire
• Jon Lebkowsky
• ...add yourself

Notes

David Shanske ran us through the settings of various plugins, beginning with the main IndieWeb WordPress plugin.

Once installed, a list of IndieWeb related plugins appears in the WP admin under IndieWeb | Extensions.

Webmentions

Webmention plugin settings

• New entries under Settings | Discussion
  • Must enable "Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article" to send WMs
  • Must enable "Allow link notifications from other blogs..." to receive them.
• Homepage webmentions
  • GWG puts homepage webmentions to his /about/ page
  • Chris Aldrich sends them to a /mentions page: http://boffosocko.com/mentions/
    • See also: http://boffosocko.com/2017/04/15/mentions-from-twitter-to-my-website/

Micropub

Micropub - a micropub server plugin. Has no options.

Potential options will be custom endpoints and settings for syndicate-to addon plugins

Bridgy Publish

• Under IndieWeb | Bridgy
  • Registration section has links that let you renable bridgy publish for various services (FB, Twitter, ...)
  • For each service, you can enable/disable bridgy publish for that service, or set it to be checked by default.

Syndication Links

• displays links from your posts to syndicated copies elsewhere. e.g. those made by bridgy publish
• has options like showing icons at various sizes, text, hidden links.

Post Kinds

• replaces Wordpress "Post Formats" feature
• all new icons added by David Shanske today!
• display options
  • "embed sites" will show reply context
• walked through example.
  • create a new post
  • Kinds box shows up in right sidebar
  • choose a kind and the "Post Properties" section shows up below the post
  • showed example for retrieving response data from a URL (article name and summary, site name, author info)

Showed examples from david.shanske.com

• David Shanske started using OwnYourSwarm to have more location posts.

His checkins include location maps using the Simple Location Plugin

• Simple Location also adds a "Timezone" selector to posts.
  • Added after a trip to Ireland due to OwnYourSwarm using his home timezone
  • Pro-Tip: click the clock to detect and use the browser's timezone.
  • The Timezone selector was not working on the demo machine (Chrome on macOS)

IndieAuth plugin replaces the WordPress admin login with the IndieAuth flow

Themes

• Independent Publisher
• SemPress
• ZenPress - in development on GitHub
• _mf2
• 2016 fork in GWG's Github repository