#wordpress 2018-07-28

2018-07-28 UTC
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donblanco1 found it! I feel like a genius. All draft GoodReads import entries are now post_kind of 'read' - yay
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Loqi woot
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donblanco now I get to edit the PHP to display all the new custom fields. And the CSS. Ugh.
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dougbeal donblanco++ nice
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Loqi donblanco has 1 karma
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donblanco did a brief outline/write-up https://glenn.thedixons.net/how-to-import-your-goodreads-list-into-wordpress-for-free/
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dougbeal I want to write OwnYourReads so I can go kindle->goodreads->blog
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donblanco @dougbeal Please do! Include markup so all the fields display. That part is Killing me. Can't find where Mr. Shanske hid that part of the code.
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GWG hiding?
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[xavierroy] @donblanco++
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[xavierroy] donblanco++
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jeremych- !tell dougbeal I do Kindle > website > Goodreads by hand because it gives me more control as I write the review on my own site.
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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jgmac1106_ !tell gwg what was the fix you used to display an excerpt as a title in WordPress UI when no title is present?
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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jgmac1106_ [gwg] [pfefferle] Check out how this bookmark syndicated: https://sempress.jgregorymcverry.com/uncategorized/35/ on Twitter you only get the url: https://twitter.com/Greg34420489/status/1023154746885132288
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@Greg34420489 #35: https://sempress.jgregorymcverry.com/uncategorized/35/ (twitter.com/_/status/1023154746885132288)
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donblanco So I did the child theme thing, added code to the post template, tweaked the CSS - it's not too bad and it'll do for now
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donblanco https://glenn.thedixons.net/kind/read/
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sknebel neat. can you write a blogpost about what you've done?
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sknebel donblanco++
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jeremych- Looks great. You can tweak the line spacing in the box later, hint hint.
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jeremych- Donblanco++
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sknebel jgmac1106_: have you filed a bug somewhere to figure out *why* the photo post kind doesn't work and getting it fixed?
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jgmac1106_ I will, but for now just showing my students how to get it to work, if they want to syndicate a photo just set it to featured image
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jgmac1106_ if anything changes the clips are all <3-4 min. Easy to replace and update,
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sknebel oh, not a criticism of documenting what works *now*
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sknebel but making things better needs problem to be tracked, and stuff that's only talked about in chat gets easily lost over time
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jgmac1106_ its just me trying to stay hyper focused on one goal…I so wanted to start comparing markup and figure out why different themes syndicate in different ways
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jgmac1106_ I will have SemPress, 2016-IndieWeb, and Independent Publisher all installed, gonna make a community credential if folks want to test drive different things….but then we also know WP acts different based on Shared Host…and now I want to go build a server in my closet….which should be a media server actually….means I need to go rip some songs….
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jgmac1106_ [sknebel] as soon as a walkthrough of each theme is done I am going to finish the article stub for each theme and file any relevant issues I find
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sknebel great!
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jgmac1106_ [miklb] instead of a brand new theme, could fork Independent Publisher and you could try a crowdsource campaign with that or even do a freemium model (if the license allows commercial application)
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donblanco @sknebel I posted that yesterday - wrote it before I did the child theme part https://glenn.thedixons.net/how-to-import-your-goodreads-list-into-wordpress-for-free/
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sknebel oh, sorry, missed that in the backlog
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donblanco now stuck on how to get the GoodReads rating value (number 1-5 in custom field) and turn that into actual stars
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donblanco probably some sort of "for $stars = 1-5" or some such
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sknebel hm, maybe you can crib something from the review post kind?
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donblanco wait - why am I putting book reviews with stars into the 'read' kind again? lol
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donblanco so to-read or reading can stay in the 'read' kind, but after reading they get moved to the 'review' kind - this makes a lot of sense...
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donblanco @sknebel where is the 'review' post kind? I'm not finding it
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sknebel oh, I seem to have misremembered, I thought the plugin had that
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sknebel sorry for misleading you
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donblanco damn
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donblanco well it definitely *should* have it lol
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jgmac1106_ [donblanco] the read-of microformat is still experimental
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donblanco I see that the post-kind plugin tracks most of the mentioned post types on IndieWeb.org, just not the review kind https://indieweb.org/review
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jgmac1106_ [gRegorLove] probably recalls better than me but the general line of thinking was use something more close to finish
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jgmac1106_ yes I would say review is good
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jgmac1106_ Any custom form field plugin could probably output an icon, but you seem way more saavy with wordpress than me
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jgmac1106_ so doing it right in the theme probably easier
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donblanco yeah, most of the examplesl I've found involve ACF - the go-to custom field plugin
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donblanco I don't mind throwing some HTML, PHP and/or CSS into the mix, but the post-kind plugin is more involved. Would love to be able to add my own kinds without editing 25 different files
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[miklb] [jgmac1106] I’m re-investigating putting work into the wprig theme. I’ve reached out to see if they would accept mf2 PR. I’ve seen mor10 show interest in some tweets, so we’ll see. If not, I’d prefer my from scratch work.
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[miklb] But I’m also doing all with the eye of being able to provide a service/premium theme.
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donblanco well good news bad news - good news is adding ACF in migrated most custom fields swimmingly
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donblanco The 'date read' field, kinda disappeared :(
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donblanco Also discovered that moving all the book items from draft to publish in bulk changed the original post date from the date read to today *sob*
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donblanco holy shit - I have book cover thumbnails! Thanks Open Library!
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GWG ?
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Loqi GWG: jgmac1106_ left you a message 6 hours, 30 minutes ago: what was the fix you used to display an excerpt as a title in WordPress UI when no title is present?
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dougbeal donblanco: oooh
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Loqi dougbeal: jeremych- left you a message 10 hours, 48 minutes ago: I do Kindle > website > Goodreads by hand because it gives me more control as I write the review on my own site.
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dougbeal !tell jeremych-: Thats the reason I don't write product reviews - why would I want to generate free content for a vendor
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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jeremych- I haven't done many product reviews either. Books (and films and music and even podcasts) are different.
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donblanco yeah, I'm going to need to consolidate these php variables. *sigh*
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