#wordpress 2019-08-13

2019-08-13 UTC
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shrysr GWG: Quill's bookmarklets work for like and bookmark. DOesnt appear to be bookmarklets for the rest.
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aaronpk There's one for reply
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aaronpk I use it all the time :-)
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Tevya Hi, I'm trying to connect Bridge to a WP site and keep getting errors.
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Tevya Anyone here that can help? Or since it's not specifically a WP issue, should I be posting elsewhere?
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GWG Do you mean Bridgy?
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Tevya Yes, sorry.
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GWG And the errors are?
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Tevya Let me pull it up....
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GWG In order to give you advice, I think we need more info
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Tevya Yes, of course. Sorry. First time here, and wanted to make sure this is the right place to ask.
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Tevya Just sec....
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Tevya Well, of course when I go to re-try it and give you the deets, it works! I guess I'm good....
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Tevya It's on a site where I want to import all Instagram posts from a fairly new Insta account. Is there some way to have it pull in all posts going back to when we started it a few months ago?
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GWG Tevya: Bridgy doesn't do Instagram posts, it does instagram comments, I believe
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GWG OwnYourGram would do posts
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Ruxton OwnYourGram only does last 20 posts though
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Ruxton f you want to backfill, you'll need to mod it slightly and run yur own
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GWG Ruxton: That's about the best that can be done.
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Ruxton yep 100%
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Ruxton I started running my own local OWG for that
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aaronpk I thought manton made a desktop app that can publish an Instagram archive download back to your site
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Ruxton really? that's sweet!
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Tevya Oh, I guess I misunderstood. I thought it was both ways. So you're saying we can share from the site, and that'll push to Instagram, then comments will pull back from IG to the site. But we can't post on Instagram and get the data onto the site, with Bridgy, right?
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aaronpk That's probably how I'd end up integrating it with OYG, ask ppl to upload their Instagram archives to OYG and have it process that rather than scraping the whole thing
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GWG Regrettably, Instagram doesn't allow third parties to write
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Ruxton Tevya: there's no way to post on site and push to insta
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[Rose] *Instagram allows selected 3rd parties to write but it's complicated.
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Ruxton and only for business accounts :)
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Ruxton YAY FACEBOOK!
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Ruxton kicks dirt
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[Rose] If you set your IG account to be a business account then Buffer can post one picture to your profile without needing you to auth it, but it's not ideal and in my experience sometimes fails.
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Tevya Yeah. Okay. I think OYG is what I needed then. With Bridgy to pull back the comments, etc.
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Tevya Thanks so much for explaining. I'm a long-time WP guy, but Indieweb is new to me. Pretty awesome though. I'm a fan, just not a very knowledgeable one... yet.
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GWG Tevya: What is your site?
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GWG And never worry about asking questions
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Tevya https://wabu.life/
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Tevya I had been using a plugin to import from IG. But it doesn't work on multiple-image posts. Tried reaching the dev about getting it fixed, but no luck.
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Tevya If that plugin did get fixed, is there something Bridgy needs to link the post on WP to the post on IG so it knows where to place the comments?
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GWG It needs a link back to the post
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GWG Syndication Links has a manual UI for that
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Tevya K. Cool. If I get that plugin working right, I'll see if there's a way to do that. I think there is.
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[Rose] I would highly recommend using the Micro.Blog app if you have a Mac - it works with multiple image posts and I believe it also imports the link in the right format.
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Tevya That looks cool. And I do have a Mac. But we'd like to be able to post quickly from our phones. The instagram app works fine for that. Just need a reliable way to get it from IG to WP.
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GWG OwnYourGram does that... just not back months
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Tevya Yeah... and it doesn't have a way to set a title, which is kinda nice about this plugin... if it were working fully. Trying it out though. We'll see how it goes. Maybe I don't need titles. Just so entrenched in the WP approach.
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[Rose] The Micro.Blog suggestion is for the one time import 🙂
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Tevya Oh! So I could use it to get all the posts, then just use OYG going forward. I didn't realize that's what you were saying. I may do that! Thank you.
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[Rose] Yup, that's what I meant 😄
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Tevya 👍
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[pfefferle] Sorry, I’ve overseen the comment… I am using “Paw” on a Mac.
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GWG Hi, [pfefferle]
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[xavierroy] hi [dshanske] Any plans to fix the response properties data issue
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GWG Yes
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GWG Which issue specifically
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GWG There are 3
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[xavierroy] all my posts from teacup wind up empty 😞
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GWG What?
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GWG That's strange
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GWG I tested teacup
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GWG Time to simulate a meal
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GWG Can you open an issue just to remind me?
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[xavierroy] it comes through as a post. but if i open the post to edit the category either through the post editor or with Quick Edit option, the content vanishes.
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[xavierroy] I think it might be because only the title field is updated from Teacup and when an edit is made, since there is no url data in post properties, it is scrubbed
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GWG If you could open the issue... I've been behind lately on Indieweb stuff and don't want to forget
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[xavierroy] Sure
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GWG I have spent over 2 weeks on maintenance tax type issues3
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[xavierroy] should i file under micripub or post kind
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GWG Post Kind
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GWG That's what handles data storage
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[xavierroy] one issue coming up
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GWG Any others?
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GWG The long term solution is probably https://github.com/dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds/issues/281
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Loqi [dshanske] #281 Add class to deliver all data to the view template
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GWG I wrote a class to represent a post in mf2 but I think it may have become too complicated
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GWG I think I need to rethink how I handle abstraction
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GWG But I am thinking about the same thing in webmentions right now
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GWG How do I best take the code that creates, saves, and updates them and make it its own thing so it can be simply called
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GWG For webmentions, it is creating a new webmention and update webmention function wrapped around the new comment function
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[xavierroy] any reason why the incoming micropub data can be stored in a custom field?
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[xavierroy] i use keyring. it stores the raw data as a custom field
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[xavierroy] posted an issue with some data to check
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[xavierroy] https://github.com/dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds/issues/285
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Loqi [xavierroy] #285 Teacup posts lose title if the post is edited
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GWG Stored for what purpose?
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GWG Micropub and Post Kinds both store in fields indicated by the mf2 property
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GWG So when you change properties, it erases one field and moves the data to another
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GWG That's where it might be messing up
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[xavierroy] there is reprocessor function in keyring to run thru older imports
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shrysr aaronpk: where can I find the bookmarklet for replying with quill ?
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aaronpk Oh huh it's not on the page like the rest
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shrysr ok. I almost missed the rest :) how wd I set it up ?
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aaronpk I'll have to dig it up
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aaronpk or if you're familiar with writing bookmarklets, it's adding ?reply={url} to the note page URL
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shrysr i'm not familiar, but i will give it a shot.
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shrysr aaronpk: hmm, I get {url} in the URL box.
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shrysr i.e not the actual url
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shrysr aaronpk: HA > I found https://arcadiamashups.blogspot.com/2009/10/get-current-url-bookmarklet-pattern.html to help
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shrysr seems to be working now.
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shrysr aaronpk: thank you for the quick response. These bookmarklets are quite convenient.
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aaronpk Awesome
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shrysr aaronpk: so I made a bookmark of the post and shared the bookmarklet script on my WP site. how would I send you a 'general' webmention to let you know?
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shrysr i.e since it is not a reply to a particular post or a link.
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aaronpk What is a home page webmention?
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Loqi person mention is a homepage webmention sent to a person's homepage https://indieweb.org/home_page_webmention
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aaronpk shrysr: just link to my home page anywhere in the post :-)
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aaronpk like mentioning someone on Twitter
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shrysr aaronpk: thanks. I posted some notes on setting up and hope you receive the webmention :)
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aaronpk I did!
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shrysr :) very cool.
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