Blog Engines and Indieweb Controlling Upstream by Brad (ramblinggit.com) All this WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg stuff got me thinking. With WordPress it seems like the Indieweb starts making serious and cool progress and the WordPress people come along and knock the game board and pieces off the table. And it sounds like the disruption from WordPress is going to continue .. I think WordPress has strayed from its roots as a blogging platform. Automattic seems interested in building a content management…
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Reply to Blog Engines and Indieweb Controlling Upstream by Brad Enslen by Chris Aldrich (Boffo Socko) I’m aware of the disruption of the Gutenberg Editor within WordPress v5.0 and how it applies to those using IndieWeb technology on WordPress. I’m sure it will eventually get sorted out in a reasonable fashion. Sadly, throwing out the baby out with the bathwater as it comes to WordPress and IndieWeb may not be the best solution for many people and may actually be…
Sticking With WP 4.x For Now by Ton Zijlstra (Ton Zijlstra) For now I’ll stick with WP4, until I see more confident reviews. Currently, searches for WP alternatives, calling WP’s new course Dreamweaver, quirks, and bugs, do not inspire that confidence. There is a fork, ClassicPress, already. I may spin up a VPS this weekend and try it out.…
Some thoughts on WordPress 5 and Gutenberg by Nitin Khanna (Nitin Khanna) edit: Gutenberg is NOT a happy camper on the Mac. I can move the central edit column horizontally in a not-so-good way. Separately, the dropcap paragraph, when it moves into edit mode, removes the dropcap in a very ugly way. That's bad news. But .. maybe not. I dislike Gutenberg. NOTE: Another webmention sent via the IndieWeb Webmention plugin. Did it work?…
Some thoughts on WordPress 5 and Gutenberg by Nitin Khanna (Nitin Khanna) I really like Unsplash for pictures now. It’s not always on point, but there are some gorgeous pics out there! The Instant Images plugin is also nice – it doesn’t play with Gutenberg, but it sits outside and so it’s easy to add an image and then come to Gutenberg on an already open post and just click on the image block to pull the latest images. That…
