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08-Dec-2021 Extract #Hashtags from Titles and Content for WordPressI’ve been using IFTTT since 2013 and use it to import posts from my Instagram account into artlung.com for safekeeping. One aspect of that is hashtags, which mostly I’ve imported manually and in batches over the years. Based on WordPress HashTags by Matthias Pfefferle I was able to build a small plugin to popular the…
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30-Aug-2020 Set permissions for all WordPress wp-config.php files to 600 on shared hostingA solid security recommendation from the company I host with that I have turned into a cron job:
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16-Aug-2020 Instalooter to WordPressI’ve been importing my Instagram posts for my @artlung account using IFTTT for 7 years with good results. But there was a set of several hundred posts from 2011 and 2012 that I never bothered with. To be honest looking back at the posts, and thinking of that time, those were the two years after…
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09-Aug-2020 Open Graph Protocol Tools updated to version 1.91It’s been 10 years since I first wrote the Open Graph Protocol Tools WordPress plugin. It was first published to the WordPress Plugin repository on April 28, 2010. It’s a tool that embeds metadata into your WordPress blog so posts and pages that can be parsed by social media. It’s not a particular popular plugin,…
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02-Mar-2019 Adding tags to blog posts retroactively.I’ve been reflecting my instagram posts back to this blog for a while now. One of the conventions there is mentioning people with the @mention and hashtagging posts with #hashtags. It has bothered me for a while that I didn’t ingest those tags and mentions in some manner. I left this lay for a long…
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22-Feb-2018 Suspicious Activity: “An admin user with the username backup was created outside of WordPress”On 14 February 2018, WordFence alerted me to highly suspicious behavior. This is the format of the email I received from WordFence version 4.9.3: This email was sent from your website “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]” by the Wordfence plugin. Wordfence found the following new issues on “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]”. Alert generated at Wednesday 14th of February…
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21-Feb-2018 Blog Post Visualization + CodeI’ve been doing maintenance galore on this site. I have a hand-written theme and I’ve been doing things like returning the footer to a good shape and sweating the responsive details of it. I first wrote that code in 2010 but I’ve adapted it to be a bit better and now am using CSS Grid…
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19-Feb-2018 WordFence is vital for self-hosted WordPress instances.I’ve been hosting WordPress websites for a long time. This blog I migrated to WordPress in 2004. I had experience with it running San Diego Blog which started on B2 and I converted to WordPress in Summer 2004. So I’ve been hosting WordPress a long time. There’s a reason the software is popular. It’s free,…
