Blogging Articles

• About This Collection I wanted to make an idea-based collection instead of a time-based collection, and make it as light as possible.
• Combining RSS and Atom Feeds with Python How to build a combined feed from multiple sources that you can publish for followers to subscribe.
• Database Upgrade Problems! MySQL 5 → 8 with WordPress My webhost upgraded their database server from MySQL 5 to 8. The upgrade itself went smoothly, but I did find some after-effects on my WordPress sites
• Finding Fediverse Feeds How to find the RSS/Atom feeds for Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Misskey, and other Fediverse platforms.
• Finish Those Blog Drafts! If you’re not quite satisfied with your draft, schedule it for a few days out instead of just saving the draft. If you really think of a way to make it better, you still have time.
• Getting Logged Out of ClassicPress ClassicPress uses a strict mode for admin cookies, so following a link to your dashboard from another site requires you to log in again.
• Make Feedly Notice an Updated WordPress Post by Changing the GUID Changing the GUID of an updated post in your RSS/Atom feed will tell feed readers that it’s a new post. Here’s some WordPress code that will let you do that with a custom field.
• WordPress 5.7 Upgrade Breaks Posts with Emoji in the Title? Posts with emoji in the title mysteriously stopped displaying anywhere on the blog except the edit form, possibly due to mismatched character sets.
• WordPress Complexity vs. Eleventy WordPress has gotten complicated to run, complicated to use, complicated to render… Eleventy is complicated too, but only to set up.

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