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6.1.2025 01:25Comment on Goodbye WordPress? by Steven<p><a href="https://wee.press/posts/author/walterebert/" rel="ugc">@walterebert</a> 😢</p>
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5.1.2025 19:37Comment on wee.press by Hans-Gerd GerhardsIn reply to <a href="https://wp-social.net/@hgg/113777235981808490">Hans-Gerd Gerhards</a>. I'm sure I'll visit some WordPress related events. Just not presenting or organising anything. FrOSCon maybe?
5.1.2025 19:12Comment on Goodbye WordPress? by walterebert<p><a href="https://wee.press/posts/author/walterebert/" rel="ugc">@walterebert</a> <br />All the best Walter - I hope to see you again somewhere.</p>
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5.1.2025 18:20Comment on Goodbye WordPress? by Bego Mario GardeSince 2010 I have been doing WordPress development, starting with a custom login for a bank. In 2011 I did my first talk at a WordCamp about Multisite, introduced in WordPress 3.0, and created an account on wp.org. Over time I became a meetup and WordCamp organiser. And at some point I added patches to […]
5.1.2025 14:31Goodbye WordPress?For multi-language support I often use the Polylang plugin. This plugin makes it easier to create pages in multiple languages. It also provides a language switcher that you can add to navigation menus. The switcher offers some options, like displaying flags or using a select element to chose a language. I wouldn’t recommend using flags, […]
30.8.2024 07:35Customising the Polylang language switcherThe yearly Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) in Sankt Augustin, Germany has a dedicated WordPress room with talks again this year. Here are the slides for my talk (in German).
18.8.2024 22:34FrOSCon 2024: How do themes get on wordpress.org?The weet theme is extremely fast. One of the ways to achieve this, is by not loading any of the styles that are shipped with WordPress. After updating to WordPress version 6.4, I noticed that a stylesheet was loading with this theme. Apparently a new stylesheet was introduced. I used the excellent Query Monitor plugin […]
8.1.2024 15:51Removing all default WordPress CSS stylesAfter a lot of work, version 1.0 of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress was released. The overall usability has been improved and some of the most requested features were implemented. The biggest addition is the blog-wide ActivityPub profile. And you can freely set the ID for it. Before you could only follow individual WordPress accounts. […]
25.9.2023 08:00New features in ActivityPub plugin version 1.0Should ActivityPub posts be written differently from blog posts? That is the question I’m asking myself since posting to the Fediverse with WordPress. For wee.press I started with the regular settings of the ActivityPub plugin. Turns out that by default the full content is posted, minus some formatting. A couple of things stood out to […]
21.8.2023 21:15Writing blog posts for ActivityPubThe yearly Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) in Sankt Augustin, Germany has a dedicated WordPress room with talks again this year. Here are the slides for my talk (in German).
5.8.2023 10:45FrOSCon 2023: WordPress as an ActivityPub instanceWeb sites built with WordPress have the reputation to be slow. And a lot of them are. But so is the average web site. So what factors do matter? Recently, I saw a post on the fediverse, mentioning that the person showed their bespoke web site to a young WordPress developer and how much faster […]
31.7.2023 16:09Is WordPress slow?wee.press is a WordPress site that uses the ActivityPub plugin to add functionality to interact with Fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. This makes it possible for people to directly follow posts without visiting the web site. But after my last post, some people told me that the post was returning raw code, not the regular web […]
23.7.2023 21:15Fixing a Surge cache issue with ActivityPubActivityPub is a W3C standard, I mean recommendation. And WordPress supports it! Not by default, but for now, with a plugin. So, what does that mean? And why should you care? With the ActivityPub protocol you can publish posts and automatically send notifications to people who follow your blog. People can also comment on your […]
8.7.2023 11:16Using WordPress as an ActivityPub instance