#wordpress 2022-05-04
2022-05-04 UTC
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[Chris_Lott] As I (re)start my IndieWeb journey, a major itch is deciding I should stick with WordPress or not as my home platform. I’ve tried to list some pros/cons in my Itches, and I’ve been reading around the IndieWeb wiki, but would love any thoughts. Note that I am OK with, in fact I plan to, start from scratch building this.
# [Chris_Lott] Port over to ClassicPress you mean?
# lkhrs[m] I'm actually looking at migrating back to WordPress at some point, when I figure out the export format and make a Hugo template for it
# lkhrs[m] I really enjoy writing with the block editor, and the mobile app is super good
# [Chris_Lott] I’ve used Jekyll and a few others in the past, and they do have a real appeal in certain ways, but I’m pretty sure I should stick with a platform like WP or similar rather than a static generator. And self-hosting feels right in this context, so I don’t know that micro.blog, for instance, makes sense. But I wasn’t sure about Known or whatever else might be out there!
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# [chrisaldrich]1 I've got both a WordPress and a WithKnown site as well as a MediaWiki install and a private personal text-based repository. You can certainly try out multiple things to see what works best for your needs.
# [chrisaldrich]1 While there's some planning for the future of Known, it's been somewhat dormant for the past couple of years, but it does work pretty well out of the box for most/many IndieWeb uses.
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# sco_battles_irc I used WordPress for a bit and just ended up feeling like I was too in the weeds
# sco_battles_irc Looks like I may be a WordPress wrangler for work soon, so I'd rather have something low maintenance for my personal site
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# [Chris_Lott]1 What are you using now?
# [Chris_Lott]1 I have a Known install, but the slow development was a concern. And I wasn’t sure if there were other platforms or solutions I simply have no knowledge of!
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# [Will_Monroe] [Chris_Lott] I was just reading your posts from yesterday. Your websites look great!
# [Will_Monroe] As someone who has considerably fewer coding skills than many here, I have found that using WordPress with one of the recommended themes is a good fit. From the look of your website, this is probably not the case though. But when I weighed the challenge of manually adding all of the Indieweb functionality versus taking a recommended theme (e.g., Autonomie) and learning to modify it through a child theme, I chose the
# [Will_Monroe] latter. My "free" time with a computer is relatively limited and my skills are modest. Nevertheless, I'm enjoying learning how to use my website this way.
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# cyborganicLion Hi, why cant I `import(remote-content-url)` from a javascript module? I can import at the top of a module using `import
{ * } as variable` but id like to programatically load remote content based on client variables, I am able to do this without wordpress in a browser envioronment but I receive a type error when I attempt to `import(remote-content-url)` within a wordpress envioronment.# cyborganicLion The import(module) expression loads a module and returns a promise that resolves into a module object that contains all its exports. It can be called in javascript from any place in the code. Although I can't call a remote url from my plugin, is there some way i can permit loading content from a remore url in my custom script/module?
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# sco_battles_irc @[Chris_Lott] I'm using Micro.blog. When I was on WordPress, I used the IndieWeb Publisher theme with some mods and most of the IndieWeb plugins
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# [Scott_Jack] That's me 👆 btw
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