2017/Austin/wordpress

 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)
 * (co-session facilitator)
 * (remote)
 * Jon Lebkowsky
 * ...add yourself
 * Jon Lebkowsky
 * ...add yourself

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 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 His checkins include location maps using the Simple Location Plugin
 * started using OwnYourSwarm to have more location posts.
 * 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