#wordpress 2017-07-25

2017-07-25 UTC
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[miklb] w00t. phpcs 3.x working with WordPress Coding Standards
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Loqi yay!
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[chrisaldrich] miklb++ for outreach to jtsternberg, who has some great WP PESOS plugins (Instagram importer and Twitter importer) https://twitter.com/miklb/status/889126356583411712
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Loqi [@miklb] @Jtsternberg You are describing what the indieweb movement is about. There are some folks trying to make it easier to do with WP as we speak. Join us.
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[miklb] didn’t get a response, but I’ve crossed paths with Justin online for a few years now.
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GWG Crossed paths sounds like there might be a story.
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[miklb] oh, no. Just interactions around WP & development. I’m a big fan of CMB2
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GWG I'm not sure there will be much Indieweb this week for me.
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[miklb] understandable after a month on the road.
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GWG I have a lot of stuff to handle
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[miklb] hope everything is ok
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GWG Administrative stuff.
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aaronpk just installed wordpress to test something
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GWG aaronpk: Share with us?
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aaronpk is confused at the built-in widget on the dashboard "Attend an upcoming event near you." which appears to know I am in Portland
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GWG aaronpk: That's new.
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aaronpk also... wordcamp portland is on september 23rd!
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[miklb] sniffing location by IP I wonder
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aaronpk hey that wasn't too bad of an experience
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aaronpk 20 minutes start to finish
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aaronpk installed wordpress, installed podcasting plugin, figured out how it decides how many episodes to include in the feed, wrote a plugin to modify its behavior
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prtksxna aaronpk: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/04/14/nearby-wordpress-events/
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aaronpk "The widget tries to automatically detect a user’s location, but they’ll also be able to enter any city they like."
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prtksxna "The default location is determined by IP address, timezone, and locale, which isn’t always accurate, but is the best we can do for now. "
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aaronpk Welp, didn't work on the real site
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aaronpk i may have to troubleshoot tomorrow
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aaronpk im kinda stumped
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aaronpk the plugin has a hook for defining the number of episodes in the feed, and uses the rss setting if the hook isn't there
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[miklb] that encapsulates my last 12 years with WordPress
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aaronpk so on the next line I just set the variable to override whatever it pulled from the rss setting
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aaronpk and now it only respects the rss setting
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aaronpk so i don't know where it gets that
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Ruxton what podcast plugin are you using?
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aaronpk Seriously simple podcasting
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aaronpk I wrote up what I did https://aaronparecki.com/2017/07/24/15/seriously-simple-podcasting-include-all-episodes-in-rss-feed
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Loqi [Aaron Parecki] Seriously Simple Podcasting: Including all Episodes in the Podcast RSS Feed
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aaronpk this worked in a new install of wordpress
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[chrisaldrich] aaronpk++ for not only writing that whole process up, but going as far as creating a plugin for it
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[aaronpk] Too bad it doesn't work in the real site ?
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[chrisaldrich] I'm sure that most know it already, but one could also take the couple lines of code (with a line of comment) and dump it into their functions.php file
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[aaronpk] I couldn't find a functions.php file!
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[chrisaldrich] Wait, it doesn't work on your site, or you were wishing it worked in the original plugin.
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[chrisaldrich] aaronpk, typically one should be running a child theme (so their customizations aren't overwritten with theme updates), and the child theme should have a functions.php file.
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[aaronpk] Oh in the theme, interesting
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[aaronpk] So this worked fine in my test install of wordpress
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[aaronpk] But on the real site, ohmydollar.com it didn't have an effect
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[chrisaldrich] Usually it's available via admin UI at http://example.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php
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[chrisaldrich] maybe it's not giving the right priority to the code snippet with the variety of other plugins on the actual site?
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[chrisaldrich] while I've got you, and since she may not pop up here, could you help anomalily turn off one of her checkin apps? It looks like her site is using ownyourswarm AND ownyourcheckins (maybe?) so she's duplicating every checkin.
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[aaronpk] Now that you mention it, I wonder if actually the problem is that there's some other plugin generating the podcast feed rather than the one I thought, which is why it's not respecting that setting
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[aaronpk] Oh yeah haha she's using IFTTT and OwnYourSwarm
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Loqi nice
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[chrisaldrich] that could be a possibility... I hadn't heard of that podcast app before.
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[chrisaldrich] Turning off IFTTT is at least easier than needing to ping Felix about OYC ?
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aaronpk i can't remember why she hasn't turned off one of them yet... i think something to do with maps
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aaronpk lol figured it out
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aaronpk turns out..
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aaronpk i was looking at the wrong feed
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tantek let me guess, they were all rel=alternate linked from your home page?
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aaronpk http://www.ohmydollar.com/podcast/feed/ vs http://www.ohmydollar.com/feed/podcast
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tantek that's. not a good way to distinguish URLs
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aaronpk the first is the RSS feed for the "podcast" category. the second is the feed generated by the podcast plugin
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aaronpk so my plugin did in fact change the max items for the second one, and correctly did not change it for the fiirst one
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aaronpk i was just looking at the wrong thing last night and wondering why it wasn't working
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tantek that's totally a harsh latenight bug
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[chrisaldrich] that could be a possibility... I hadn't heard of that podcast app before.
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aaronpk slacklag lol
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