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Background image ∞

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Basic Steps ∞

1) Restore from XML ∞

<a href="https://blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/import.php?import=wordpress">Import from WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR)</a>

2) Adjust configuration ∞

(TODO - take the notes from below, on this page)

3) Install and configure plugins ∞

WordPress plugins - ( Actively-used plugins )

Each plugin's page has its own configuration notes.

Note that plugins can probably be copied from a local cache, though that method is untested.

Profile ∞

profile

• [x] Disable the visual editor when writing

  • This is for BlogText
• Nickname (required) spiralofhope
• Display name publicly as [spiralofhope]

• Website http://spiralofhope.com

Settings ∞

General ∞

options - general

Set these to https if, for example, you use Let's Encrypt. This fixes problems with css not appearing correctly.

• WordPress Address (URL)

• Site Address (URL)

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• Timezone

• Date Format

  • (o) Y-m-d
• Week Starts On [Monday]

Writing ∞

options - writing

• Formatting

  • [_] Convert emoticons like :-) and :-P to graphics on display

• Update Services

  • See https://wordpress.org/support/article/update-services/

As of 2022-11-20 I use the whole list they suggest:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

Discussion ∞

options - discussion

• Avatar Display

  • [_] Show Avatars

Media ∞

options - media

• Uploading Files

  • [_] Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders

• Manage Upload Settings

  • Note that additional media types are added via the Manage Upload Types plugin.

Links ∞

posts - all posts

I delete all of these, although it would be fine to leave these alone since they're not shown.

Permalinks ∞

permalink

• (o) Custom Structure /%post_id%/%postname%.html

  • This format lets me (1) easily see my short URL, (2) provide a pretty, SEO-friendly URL, (3) have a re-nameable URL that won't break, (4) leverage a side-effect of the url rewrite that lets https://blog.spiralofhope.com/__/TITLE use TITLE as a title search which visits the first/complete match.
  • While /?p=%post_id%/%postname%.html will work, it requires all kinds of fucking around for tag URLs, and screws up admin links like https://blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

Appearance ∞

Themes ∞

See Parament WordPress theme

TODO - Widgets ∞

widgets

Text (Links) ∞

WordPress text widget configuration

Search ∞

FIXME: There is too much space between the title and the search box.

TODO: Hack it so that there's the f accesskey to jump to the search box.

• Title: Search

Clear caches ∞

At the top there is a menu bar.

1. Performance > Empty All Caches

2. BlogText > Clear page cache for all posts

PHP Extensions ∞

WordPress 8.1 minimum PHP modules ∞

Using PHP Selector.

Test using Footnotes at https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=mfmmf-diagnostics

WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.21 minimum PHP modules ∞

Using PHP Selector.

A first pass, which worked well

A second pass, which required different modules, perhaps because of imagick

Test using Footnotes at https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=mfmmf-diagnostics

WordPress 5.8 and PHP 8.0.9 minimum PHP modules ∞

Using PHP Selector.

Test using Footnotes at https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=mfmmf-diagnostics

• 2021-08-14 -- However, this breaks my home page and maybe some posts, likely because of misbehaving plugins.

Notes ∞

• TODO: https://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services

TODO ∞

Accesskeys ∞

Is there a way to implement accesskeys? If my code gets automatically updated, then perhaps not.

• alt-f for the search field.

  • I'm using a keyworded bookmark with Pale Moon: http://blog.spiralofhope.com/?x=0&y=0&s=%s

• alt-e to edit the currently-selected item.

  • May not be feasible. The list view may use the same identifier as when looking at just one single entry. Meh.
  • I could just modify the top floating bar, which has an edit link when I'm viewing a single editable page.

• Editing an entry:

  • alt-s save
  • alt-p preview. Also: Is there a way to switch to that preview tab? Or maybe make it a popup? Right now it only switches to it if it doesn't exist.

Failed attempt one: A child theme with a custom functions.php ∞

I've tried various angles to inject accesskey="e" into the a href but I've had no success.

JQuery doesn't seem to be operating. I've tried various ways of loading it, but it's a no-go.

• digwp was a pointer, but I can't get it to work, even copying the example code verbatim.

function custom_toolbar_link($wp_admin_bar) {
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('edit');
        $args = array(
                'id' => 'edit',
                'title' => 'edit',
                'href' => get_edit_post_link( $current_object->ID ),
                'meta' => array(
                'html' => '<script>$j(document).ready(function(){$j(".edit a").attr("accesskey","e");});</script>'
                )
        );
        $wp_admin_bar->add_node($args);
}
add_action('admin_bar_menu', 'custom_toolbar_link', 999);

Failed attempt two: can't remember ∞

Some other more direct thingy which doesn't edit the admin bar but instead tries to modify the 'edit this' link at the top-left of a page.

Last updated 2022-11-20 at 17:36:25