#wordpress 2019-02-24

2019-02-24 UTC
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[dougbeal] [Rose] do you know if the wp Shortcut uses the xml-rpc endpoint?
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[dougbeal] I disabled it because of the hacking attempts spamming up my logs
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[Rose] I don't think it does, I think it's using the WP API/JetPack (depending on how you log in)
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[kevinmarks] Thread https://twitter.com/girlonthenet/status/1099698688354643968?s=19
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aaronpk whoa https://twitter.com/girlonthenet/status/1099699863632166912
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@girlonthenet @KathRella It’s AWFUL! And now when I go to edit a draft (of which I have over 100) it just shows me a ‘block’ that says ‘this block cannot be displayed.’ So without reverting, nothing I’ve done is accessible to me. (twitter.com/_/status/1099699863632166912)
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petermolnar no surprised there, aaronpk
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aaronpk that's so bad tho
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petermolnar surprises
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petermolnar gutenberg is ok for small business, rarely changing, not time constraint sites, in this form
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petermolnar and nobody else
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petermolnar which is the majority of WP users
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dougbeal Seems to indicate dysfunction at Automatic, this seemed entirely predictable from architecture and bug reports
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petermolnar > dysfunction at Automattic - there's no dysfunction there, they made a decision, that is to ignore the existing community and embrace React, because React is the Future. This might be -chat topic though.
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GWG petermolnar: It crosses major boundaries of topics
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[Rose] According to a guide I just read, in settings I should be able to enable Markdown on WordPress, I can't see that option anywhere. Does it require a plugin?
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[Rose] (Guide: https://en.support.wordpress.com/markdown/, there is no text format in Settings > Writing)
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dougbeal GWG: made a post with weather!
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[Rose] Yay!
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dougbeal Rose: I think I tracked markdown support to JetPack, but never really got it working
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GWG dougbeal: Great!
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Loqi does a happy dance!
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GWG [Rose]: That is wordpress.com.
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[Rose] Hmm, I'm on the fence about Jetpack, I heard years ago that it's a security risk - though I suspect that's down to passwords
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[Rose] GWG++ for weather
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Loqi GWG has 79 karma in this channel over the last year (165 in all channels)
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dougbeal GWG++ weather and location!
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Loqi GWG has 80 karma in this channel over the last year (166 in all channels)
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[Rose] https://jetpack.com/support/markdown/
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Loqi Markdown lets you compose posts and comments with links, lists, and other styles using regular characters and punctuation marks. Markdown is used by writers and bloggers who want a quick and easy way to write rich text, without having to take their h...
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[Rose] Jetpack supports Markdown, so... I guess I'll install it!
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[jgmac1106] Make sure you test Jetpack... Can break lots of things at minimum do not use share buttons
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[jgmac1106] Certain themes Gravatar can mess with your h-card
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dougbeal Rose: if you put it in development mode it doesn't require a login https://jetpack.com/support/development-mode/
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GWG There may be another markdown plugin
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[Rose] I have found reference to a few, but some don't support PHP7, and others seem not to work with WP5, that may be due to Gutenberg of course
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GWG Likely so
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petermolnar [Rose]: I has a markdown plugin a long time ago, w/o jetpack, let me dig
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petermolnar https://github.com/petermolnar/wp-parsedown
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Loqi [petermolnar] wp-parsedown: Parsedown parser for WordPress
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petermolnar seriously needs lib update though
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petermolnar [Rose]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/averroes/
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Loqi [Riad Benguella] Description Averroes is a markdown editor capable of understanding and updating Gutenberg blocks using markdown. Features Write Posts in Markdown. Edit Posts in Markdown. Tweak the blocks in Gutenberg and continue edition in Averroes. How can I co...
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[Rose] Hmm, I just want to be able to use Markdown when I send blog posts in via an API, I'll rarely use the actual editor I suspect.
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GWG There was a proposal for that in Micropub
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jgmac1106 surprised there isn't a markdown micropub client, that was the thing, once I was using indigenous I rarely touched the editor to publish
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dougbeal Ideally the post would be stored in markdown as well
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dougbeal otherwise you wouldn't be able to edit a post with the client
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[Rose] Yes, if I have to edit it in the editor later I'd like it to be in Markdown - hence looking for a plugin on the WordPress end instead of just converting Markdown to HTML before sending it to WP
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jgmac1106 oooh interesting challenge
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dougbeal I wonder how JetPack does it
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dougbeal Does it supply enough plumging for a markdown micropub client?
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petermolnar wp has 2 post contents
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petermolnar the post_content and the post_content_filtered
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petermolnar the jetpack plugin stored the md in the second
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petermolnar and it saved on edit save the html in the standard
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petermolnar so even if the plugin is removed, nothing breaks
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petermolnar but in order to edit the markdown content outside of the jetpack provided method, it gets tricky
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petermolnar on the other hand, this is more or less the correct way for a markdown-in-wp edit
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petermolnar so yes, there is enough plumbing for a markdown micropub, by using the filtered content field to store md there
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petermolnar and it would even be compatible with markdown editors
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petermolnar for my surprise though nobody seem to have done a markdown block for gutenberg yet
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petermolnar that, on the other hand, would not be micropub friendly
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