#wordpress 2020-08-27
2020-08-27 UTC
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[chrisaldrich] Let's try to schedule https://indieweb.org/2020/Pop-up/Sessions#IndieWeb_Friendly_WordPress_Themes sometime in the coming month, shall we? Could people indicate their dates/times/availability/interest on the planning section?
# [chrisaldrich] I'm tentatively thinking 9:30 am Pacific / 12:30 PM Eastern on a Saturday during the month. If that doesn't work for you, let us know what might be better.
# [chrisaldrich] Ideally everyone should bring a theme with them that they'd like to make indieweb friendly and we'll all work together to make it happen. If we can we'll work at doing it so that those with no coding experience can both learn and help out.
# [chrisaldrich] If you've got a theme that sort of works but needs a few tweaks, bring those along as well.
# [chrisaldrich] I'm hoping that we can do a session like this a few times a year to increase the number of available themes to choose from as well as to help people who come in with themes learn how to make any modifications they might need to let them be more IndieWeb /friendly without needing to throw out their favorite and start from scratch.
# [chrisaldrich] @GWG, I suspect that a session like this may be easier if everyone comes preferably with a GitHub account and they can learn some basic git and versioning as we go along?
# [chrisaldrich] people can do things with a simple text editor surely, but having a chance to see it all with versioning could be a good side-benefit learning experience too.
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# [chrisaldrich] GWG, have you looked for a pre-existing plugin for that or something similar? It seems like something that someone may have done before.
# [chrisaldrich] [Sue_Hanen] Good to see you last night. I know you said you don't have a site (yet). Do you need some help with getting started?
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[Sue_Hanen] [chrisaldrich] @GWG Love learning more about themes. I’m happy to have found this group. You plan fun meetings. Thank you!!
# [chrisaldrich] I think that the core structure of what I know about WordPress themes I learned from seeing how GWG and [pfefferle] added microformats v2 to their themes.
# [Sue_Hanen] [chrisaldrich] Thank you. I’ll get my feet wet and let you know when I get stuck. I’ve given myself a deadline of this weekend to come up with my domain name. Not an easy task. 🤔
# [Sue_Hanen] Several people shared their sites last night. Is there an easy way to find other indie websites?
# [chrisaldrich] what is discovery?
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Loqi Discovery is a variety of methods for finding content, websites, communities, or people to follow on the web including search, directories, recommendation engines, tags, or other serendipitous methods https://indieweb.org/discovery
# [chrisaldrich] I've got a list of IndieWeb sites under a subheading here: https://boffosocko.com/about/following
# [Sue_Hanen] [chrisaldrich] great thanks.
# [chrisaldrich] There's a few others, some are listed at https://indieweb.org/planet#IndieWebCamp_Planet
# [chrisaldrich] What is IndieWeb News?
# [Sue_Hanen] What is Loqi?
# Loqi Loqi is a friendly and useful bot/digital therapist present in the IndieWeb discussion channels https://indieweb.org/Loqi
# [chrisaldrich] There's also a pre-built set of feeds at stream.indieweb.org
# [chrisaldrich] gives Loqi a cookie.
# [chrisaldrich] [Sue_Hanen] There's also a massive list in /indie_map at https://github.com/snarfed/indie-map/blob/8f8c7169837171f285f7ad1feb3446d2409364d4/crawl/2020/domains_wiki_users.txt, but it's a simple text file of about 2,000 sites which have logged into the wiki, I think.
# [chrisaldrich] What is a domain?
# Loqi A personal domain is a domain name that you personally own, control, and use to represent yourself on the internet https://indieweb.org/domain
# [chrisaldrich] Hmmm... that page probably should have some ideas about how to choose a domain name. Sometimes that's one of the hardest parts...
# [chrisaldrich] of course it sometimes seems like an all-or-none problem because I know some people who have registered dozens to hundreds of cool domain names....
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# [chrisaldrich] GWG, forgot where and in what context? I don't think I know Shemini to have forgotten...
# [chrisaldrich] That reminds me...
# [chrisaldrich] !tell [Chaitanya] one of the other WordPress / India-based IndieWeb people who may be interested in a Homebrew Website Club is [xavierroy] who is in Chennai, I think.
# [chrisaldrich] Ha! Somehow that's missing from the list of holidays in my Google calendar...
# [chrisaldrich] It also doesn't help that I've been thinking alternately in Welsh, Spanish, English, and Japanese in the past 30 minutes.... one more language/culture apparently just broke my brain.
# [chrisaldrich] They're the same, and neither is on for some reason. Only a reminder to discontinue my Sirius/XM account. That's a pause of sorts, isn't it? Maybe I should have guessed...
# [chrisaldrich] GWG, if you've indicated your favorite dates, we'll give people a few days to respond and then we'll choose a date and lock it in.
# [chrisaldrich] [jgmac1106] you want to join us for the theme hack? https://indieweb.org/2020/Pop-up/Sessions#IndieWeb_Friendly_WordPress_Themes
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