#wordpress 2022-07-02
2022-07-02 UTC
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[chrisaldrich] [hollie] That's really ghastly to hear about that pro WP .com experience. It's been years since I looked at it. Somehow I recall that their hosted pro version was in the neighborhood of $25/month to be able to install your own plugins and that sounded way too expensive for the privilege of a small personal site.
# [chrisaldrich] checking out and shopping around if you want to choose plugins/themes but have a more hands off approach?
# [chrisaldrich] In addition to inexpensive self-hosting which relies on you to do all the maintenance, some big hosts, especially those that specialize in WordPress offer what's called managed hosting for between $10-$50+/month based on size, traffic and some other factors. They're similar to the WordPress.com pro set up, but often have more features and service for the money and there's some reasonable competition there. Might be worth
# [chrisaldrich] What is managed hosting?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "managed hosting" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "managed hosting is ____", a sentence describing the term)
# [chrisaldrich] What is hosting?
# Loqi Web hosting can be the primary regular cost in maintaining an IndieWeb site; this page lists several options from free on up depending on your publishing needs, like a static, shared, private, or dedicated server https://indieweb.org/hosting
# [chrisaldrich] Looks like on that page, the closest thing is /web_hosting#Hosted_CMS_Software_as_Service
# [chrisaldrich] This article looks like it's got some reasonable coverage of pros/cons and some comparisons and lists of providers: https://www.wpbeginner.com/managed-wordpress-hosting/, but certainly searching for managed WordPress hosting will unveil a lot of similar coverage and options there.
# [chrisaldrich] Morning GWG
# [chrisaldrich] WordPress sites are humming along. I was tinkering with your beta bookmarks plugin on a test site and trying to hunt down some potential errors I'm seeing. Later on I need to trouble shoot a MediaWiki site that has gone down with an auto-update gone wrong.
# [chrisaldrich] What are you working on today?
# [chrisaldrich] Which one? I could use one about now....
# [chrisaldrich] I've had the planning page open in two different browsers now for a few weeks to express interest and potentially plan something myself, but now those tabs are just taunting me.
# [chrisaldrich] What is Stop Trackbacks?
# Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Stop Trackbacks" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Stop Trackbacks is ____", a sentence describing the term)
# [chrisaldrich] Is Stop Trackbacks in the WP repo yet or just github?
# [chrisaldrich] Stop Trackbacks is https://github.com/dshanske/stop-trackbacks, a [[WordPress/Plugins|WordPress plugin]] that turns off everything related to [[Trackbacks]] on [[WordPress]].
# [chrisaldrich] What are Trackbacks?
# Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "Trackbacks" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Trackbacks is ____", a sentence describing the term)
# [chrisaldrich] Trackbacks are /Trackback
# [chrisaldrich] My site now has over 28,000 comments (which is rapidly gaining on the number of posts at 43,000+), I ought to do an audit to see what percentages of them are refback, trackback, pingback, and webmention.
# [chrisaldrich] I'd also love to know what percentage of Webmentions are site to site versus those sent via Brid.gy from supported silos.
# [chrisaldrich] Has anyone done this sort of analysis on their site before?
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# [chrisaldrich] I'm realizing only about 16k posts on my site are actually public and have any chance of having comments at all...
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[tw2113_Slack_] you get comments on your posts?!?!? I wish I did, but that's more on UpAllNightMovies than anything
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