Microcast #52: Procrastination and Surround Sound
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Went for a walk by the lake during my lunch.
read 11% of Revolvermannen.
@johnjohnston You use SemPress for your blog, right? Have you encountered the problem that the theme adds titles to title-less posts and that those titles then F-s up the Micro.blog syndication?
@MrHenko ping @johnjohnston
@MrHenko @johnjohnston One approach is to remove the post title from the RSS feed for specific categories. An alternative is automatically add a date as the title which m.b ignores.
@colinwalker Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately those won’t quite do it for me. I use my main RSS feed to feed m.b to post titles and links for ”full” posts and I don’t like dates clogging up my post titles. I want title-less posts to be title-less, even inside of WP.
@MrHenko You could use a variant of the date method to set a blank title within WordPress combined with the RSS option in case it then inserts something (in my experience it’s normally the post ID) – it’s frustrating that WordPress tries to put a title on everything.
@colinwalker That’s a good idea! (In my experience WP has never been picky about titles. The problem has come up for me with various themes.)
@MrHenko WP is fine to save and present stuff without titles but when it comes to linking or sharing it always wants to call it something which is understandable I suppose.
@colinwalker I (temporarily) solved it by switching back to my old theme. When SemPress didn’t behave the way I wanted it to I tried a few others and P2 seemed great in everyway, but it had the same problem. My own, old theme hasn’t had this problem, so I hope it sill works.
@MrHenko I like titles;) I remove in rss for micro. Add titles in if there are none. gist.github.com/troutcolo… might be a bit out of date.
@johnjohnston Have you replaced the functions.php in SemPress with your custom script or how does it work?
@MrHenko I’ve got a child theme. So my functions.php is added on.
@johnjohnston I see! I got to learn about how to set up a child theme someday. I’m sure it’s not hard, but I’ve just never gotten around to it.
@MrHenko they are good as any changes don’t get written over when theme is updated. I’ve used them a few times but alway need to read codex to do it again. codex.wordpress.org/Child_The…
@johnjohnston I was literally, yes literally, about to click a link in google to that codex page when I got the notification from you! :)
@MrHenko who needs google when you have micro.blog;-)
Download and listen to Microcast #51: More on tracking of reading
Henrik Carlsson
is starting <a href="/book/show/11318933-revolvermannen">Revolvermannen</a>.
Henrik is currently reading Revolvermannen
by
Stephen King
Trying to create the basics of a reading tracker to replace goodreads on my own site. Haven’t worked with php & databases in a long time. ?
Colin has tried the Micro.blog for Mac beta. – Blogging from the Mac – Social Thoughts
@MrHenko I just noticed that the webmention for this came through as anonymous. ? I’ll edit the name field on the comment but thought you might like to know your blog isn’t telling the indieweb who you are.
@colinwalker That’s strange. I use a WordPress site and the Webmentions plugin, so I don’t really know what might have gone wrong. Thanks for letting me know!
@MrHenko I see you have vcard in the footer, maybe add the h-card class to the same element.
@colinwalker Yeah, that might be it. I’ll look into it. The theme definitely needs some cleaning up. Maybe I should remove the link to app.net as well. :)
@MrHenko haha hmm maybe ?
Replies and comments
colinwalker
18 oktober, 2017 22:01@MrHenko Awesome! Looks like you got it working ?
MrHenko
19 oktober, 2017 08:34@colinwalker Yes, I reverted back to my old home made theme and then it worked. Still going to look into modifying something like SemPress or P2 to act the way I’d like, though. Either that or spend time working on my old theme to make it better.
colinwalker
19 oktober, 2017 09:30@MrHenko Hopefully it won’t take too much work.