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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): Hosting, WordPress, "Out With the JS, In With the HTML"
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Undeadly ☛ Recent downtime
Due to hardware failure, the machine hosting undeadly has gone down last week. Thanks to the kind and swift help from OpenBSD.amsterdam, we're now back online. We will source new hardware for the original machine and hopefully move back again soon.
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Terence Eden ☛ Find blog posts with missing featured images – and missing alt text – without a plugin
WordPress has the concept of "Featured Images". They are the images which show up when you share a blog post on social media or, on some themes, as the "hero" image.
How can you quickly and easily find any posts which don't have a featured image?
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Jim Nielsen ☛ Out With the JS, In With the HTML
I’ve been posting about how you can make lots of HTML pages and leverage navigations over in-page, JS-dependent interactions.
Now I’m gonna post another example.
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Ben Werdmuller ☛ WordPress powers 47% of the web. Now it's more social, too
We’re closer to the entire web being a social environment than ever before. That’s very exciting to me on two fronts. The first is that it’s always been the promise of the web that anyone could publish and be heard, and baking in social functionality is a huge part of that. The second is that it undermines the stranglehold that traditional social media platforms have had on the public discourse and democracy itself. We need movements like these to grow.
So I think it’s cool that WordPress.com just shipped some major improvements to its core reader: [...]