#wordpress 2019-05-26
2019-05-26 UTC
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doubleloop Any suggestions about having a fallback post title for notes, likes, reposts, etc?
# doubleloop I have a friend who subscribes to my feed in an RSS feader, and mentioned that my posts just appear as #5560, #5561, etc
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jeremycherfas A lot of people use something like 2019-05-26 which micro.blog etc will ignore
# jeremycherfas And IIRC you can filter it out so it does not display as your title.
# doubleloop Yes a date for my notes would be an improvement. And maybe even some extra context for some of the other post kinds, like 'Reposted a post by [author]'.
# jeremycherfas Yup, that could work too.
# doubleloop I guess it's best to have the fallback title appear only for RSS readers, and not just add it to all posts? Or maybe indie readers handle it gracefully, and ignore a note title if it's present in the microformats?
# jeremycherfas Don't know. Sorry.
# doubleloop I guess it's probably best to only add it where it is needed.
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# doubleloop Huh, must be something to do with my WP setup. My atom feed from doubleloop.net has titles like #5678; but for bit.doubleloop.net, which is a fresh, recent setup, the atom feed titles are empty.
# doubleloop Well, that'd be another reason why I should've made a child theme rather than a *copy* of SemPress way back when XD
# doubleloop Yep I'll do that too :) - my issue here was that *when* the title was empty in my post, the older version of SemPress was filtering that to make the post title be #$post_id.
# doubleloop Gonna just switch to SemPress for the meanwhile, and then I'll legit have empty post titles. Which I can tell people should be respected by their feed reader.
# doubleloop GWG: how do you mean? As in it'll output <title></title> rather than omitting the title tag altogether?
# doubleloop GWG: ah got you.
# doubleloop (Just in case anyone was confused as to what I was babbling about earlier, this is what SemPress used to do, but doesn't anymore: https://github.com/pfefferle/SemPress/blob/1.5.5/sempress/functions.php#L488)
# doubleloop Listened to the latest episode of An IndieWeb Podcast
# doubleloop Favourite line: "If you're not there, it isn't raining"
# doubleloop It's really handy - I learned about On This Day and the ability to exclude from feeds from it
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# doubleloop Which readme?
# doubleloop Ah yep I see it in the changelog for 3.2.4
# doubleloop Anyway, point being, the podcast is really fun
# doubleloop Ah nice the kind widget is cool too
# doubleloop I had a custom html widget doing a similar thing but I like this with the counts next to each kind
# doubleloop Which is your exclude feed [Rose]? I didn't fully follow the bit on the podcast about setting up a separate feed from your main feed, but having it be your main feed.
# doubleloop Is it your /microblog page?
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# doubleloop Hmm I thought I remembered seeing somewhere that Mastodon Autopost can be used as a syndication target via Syndication Links.
# doubleloop I've got the target setup via hooks in functions.php at the moment
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[Khurt] To my knowledge, micro.blog does not specifically support checkins.
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