holy hell that was a long march nightmare
but it’s working again! finally! for the first time in FUCKING MONTHS
not gonna bother with the fucktonne of other things i tried, gonna skip straight to the answer, which is in … [more]
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hm hm hm i have a networking problem
I have a Problem
This may be very easy but I don’t know how it works and it’s the opposite of what you generally want to do, but:
I have a tiny webserver that I want to have living in … [more]
Continue readingA less terrible dreamwidth to wordpress importer
Okay. Since a few(!) people told me they wanted it, I made my Dreamwidth XML to WordPress importer marginally less terrible and it’s now on my github.
YOU WANT TO READ THE README. YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT TO READ … [more]
Continue readingThose link-only toots on Mastodon/Federation
As you may’ve noticed, for the last few posts, people on Mastodon and elsewhere in the Federation only saw links back to here in their Home feeds, rather than the previews and such they had been seeing. (Hi!)
At least … [more]
Continue readingIt works – but what do I do with it?
So I have an iMac A1225, 4G RAM, could be expanded to 6G, 2.4GHz Core2Duo. 24″ display, circa 2007-2009. Optical drive is weird and loud but reads. It had a bad hard drive fan, but unplugging it internally and swapping … [more]
Continue readingjournalpress and featured images
Okay, so if you’re one of the 200ish people still using JournalPress, or you want to start using JournalPress to bring your entries over to Dreamwidth, you may know that WordPress “featured images” work very badly over there. And that … [more]
Continue readingOkay so this is how to make a “Share this to Mastodon” in WordPress
Things you’ll need if you don’t want to edit your style directly:
- WordPress, lol
- WPCode plugin (you don’t need the pro version, the free one is fine)
- A style that’ll let you add raw HTML to a sidebar or wherever
resources and steps needed for import from dreamwidth
eta: There’s a better version of this now.
This is about 70% notes for myself because I have got to get back to work on my taxes, which I did not finish last weekend. It’ll also show you … [more]
Continue readingImport complete
I did it. It wasn’t easy. But I did it. I imported everything from Dreamwidth. (Which includes previous imports from Livejournal, and mirroring from my old recording studio and band blog.)
Federating a WordPress Blog
Quick writeup on what I’ve learned about federating a WordPress blog via the ActivityPub plugin, so far:
First: it works. The simpler your setup, the better it works, but it works pretty well for something still in beta.
Basic … [more]
Continue readingWordPress excepts: that’s much better
WordPress’s default post excerpting is very, very stupid, and breaks HTML all the way back to 1.0 by ignoring newlines as whitespace. It’s terrible in other ways as well.
These are notes on how to fix that. There’s a very … [more]
Continue readingwordpress is not done being stupid
So hey Lazyweb – I got an answer for my previous question, but here’s another:
How do you make modern WordPress NOT smash all your separate lines and paragraphs together into one hideous pseudo-paragraph on the front page?
Does no … [more]
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