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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/29
A while ago, WordPress.com heavily started to de-emphasise the Classic Editor in order to boost the Gutenberg editor which is bloaty (in both browser DOM usage (heavily slowing down editing) and content (lots of meta tags that are added to blog source) and is missing essential features (especially nesting of blocks often breaks things).
With 7000+ blog posts in the Classic Editor format (a few in still supported markdown format: that experiment failed horribly!) that still require editing (especially because of link rot)
So here is the Bookmarklet code to switch back an editing URL that you can use for as long as the Classic Editor is there:
javascript:location.href=document.location.href+'&classic-editor';
Yup, it is that simple: it appends &classic-editor to the URL.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/28
Suddenly, a while ago, because of a stuck modifier key I suddenly had the WordPress classic editor running in full screen without any indication to go back, nor an opportunity to save the content.
It wasn’t the usual “Shift-Alt-W” [Wayback] Distraction Free Writing – Make WordPress Support (which still allows you to hover over the sidebars to make them visible, and has a visual indication of the mode).
After lot’s of trying, I figured out the toggle “Shift-Ctrl-F” toggles between normal and full screen mode. It seems unavailable in the new editor, so that might be a reason ([Wayback] Keyboard Shortcuts | WordPress.org)
The shortcut is odd too, as in most tooling “Ctrl-F” modifications like “Shift-Ctrl-F” have something to do with find or replace operations.
It was quite tough finding any reference to this shortcut, as my initial search revealed none: [Wayback] “WordPress” “Shift-Ctrl-F” full screen – Google Search.
Later I reversed the modifiers in [Wayback] “WordPress” “Ctrl-Shift-F” full screen – Google Search and found [Wayback] How to disable non-system hotkeys on Windows – gHacks Tech News
Simple Disable Key is a free software program for Microsoft Windows devices that enables you to block non-system hotkeys.
…
Not all hotkeys are useful however. When I work on a WordPress site for instance, I sometimes press the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-F by accident. This switches the editor to full screen view which I never use.
First time I invoked the full screen editor I had to look up the shortcut as I could not reproduce it.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/18
For my link list as WordPress.com is actively hiding them:
- Posts:
- Categories:
- Tags:
- Comments:
- Pages:
- Blogroll???
- Post:
Notes
You can see the old versus new infrastructure by comparing these branches:
WordPress.com does not have the “Classic Editor” plugin, but just gradually discourages use of the old infrastructure which is far more feature rich, thereby screwing old users.
Some of these features from the old infrastructure that are gone (despite the pretentious name of the Gutenberg editor):
- Posts/Pages/Tags/Categories/Comments overviews are paginated, can be filtered and have bulk-actions
- Classic-Editor has lots of useful keyboard shortcuts and allows for nested quotes
For reference, WordPress – Wikipedia: Gutenberg versus classic-editor:
WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”[edit]
The December 2018 release of WordPress 5.0, “Bebo”, is named in homage to the pioneering Cuban jazz musician Bebo Valdés.[90]
It included a new default editor “Gutenberg” – a block-based editor; it allows users to modify their displayed content in a much more user friendly way than prior iterations. Blocks are abstract units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a web page.[91] Past content that was created on WordPress pages is listed under what is referred to as a Classic Block.[92] Prior to Gutenberg, there were several block-based editors available as WordPress plugins, e.g. Elementor, and following the release of Gutenberg Elementor was compared to existing plugins.[93][94]
Classic Editor plugin[edit]
The Classic Editor Plugin was created as a result of User preferences and helped website developers maintain past plugins only compatible with WordPress 4.9.8, giving plugin developers time to get their plugins updated & compatible with the 5.0 release. Having the Classic Editor plugin installed restores the “classic” editing experience that WordPress has had up until the WordPress 5.0 release.[95] The Classic Editor Plugin will be supported at least until 2022.[96]
The Classic Editor plugin is active on over 5,000,000 installations of WordPress.[97]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/25
[WayBack] html – CSS Display an Image Resized and Cropped – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] roborourke!); see full answer link for runnable snippet and HTML (the WordPress editor keeps fucking up preformatted code blocks with html or XML in it).
You could use a combination of both methods eg.
.crop {
width: 200px;
height: 150px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.crop img {
width: 400px;
height: 300px;
margin: -75px 0 0 -100px;
}
You embed the img in a div with class .crop, or in-line the styles in the img and div tags.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/29
After years with “missed schedule” posts on (paid!) wordpress.com based sites, WordPress has documented that the scheduler officially does not support more than 100 posts:
[WayBack] Warning: Please do not schedule more than 100 posts. Any posts scheduled beyond that amount will not be published.
In practice this is not fully true, so lets explain that a little.
Background
Imagine the list of scheduled posts as a list of posts to be posted anywhere from the near future (lets call that tail) until far in the future (for now head).
As long as you schedule posts in head to tail order, then there is no problem. You can schedule 100s of posts (usually I’ve between 700 and 1200 posts scheduled that way).
The problems appear when:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/16
[WayBack] Lesson learned: do not copy/paste code from the Visual WordPress.com editor; copy from the Text editor or the Preview… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+.
Note: likely the HTML below got rendered badly by WordPress.com, so the gist below has the same text as a MarkDown file.
Ever wonder why copy-pasting code from your WordPress.com post fails?
The first statement fails, but the second works:
[root@linux:/etc] # useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24
useradd: unrecognized option '--shell /bin/false'
...
[root@linux:/etc] # useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24
[root@linux:/etc] #
The reason is that the first is copied from the Visual WordPress.com editor that renders this HTML inserting which is a different unicode characer (0x00A0) than a normal space (0x0020):
<blockquote><p><code data-mce-selected="1"># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24</strong></code></p></blockquote>
However, the the second copied from the Text WordPress.com editor succeeds because it has all regular spaces:
<blockquote><code># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24</strong></code></blockquote>
Luckily the Preview render is correct:
<blockquote><p><code># <strong>useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false autossh24</strong></code></p></blockquote>
Lesson learned: do not copy/paste code from the Visual WordPress.com editor; copy from the Text editor or the Preview.
–jeroen
[WayBack] Ever wonder why copy-pasting code from your WordPress.com post fails?
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11
A little while ago, I blogged about Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal. In the mean time, Lars has made a lot of progress exporting the community [WayBack] Delphi Developers – Google+ (which has moved to en.delphipraxis.net !).
He is a heavy user of the Friends+Me Google+ Export tool, which basically is an actively maintained web scraper with standard output targets:
[WayBack] Google Plus Exporter – Medium: Export your Google+ feeds to WordPress, Blogger, and JSON.
It does not depend on the G+ REST API: “the app is using web scraping and will keep working until the bitter end”.
Quite a bit of that information and the feedback he has is in this thread: [WayBack1/WayBack2] Hi Everyone, We’ve just released Google+ Exporter, an application that helps you to export your Google+ feeds (profile, pages, collections, communities… – Friends+Me – Google+
Of course G+ does not save the whole thread in the WayBack machine, so here it is copy-pasted (unformatted; maybe I will format it later):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/30
I saw the below notification recently, but it was already enabled.
Akismet & Privacy.
To help your site be compliant with GDPR and other laws requiring notification of tracking, Akismet can display a notice to your users under your comment forms. This feature is disabled by default, however, if you or your audience is located in Europe, you need to turn it on.
Please enable or disable this feature. More information.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/29
Good news the Press-This bookmarklet on WordPress.com has been reinstated.
See https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/pull/29 and the discussions in these below threads and sources.
Solves issues:
- #12 – Add text domains
- #15 – Restore Bookmarklet Functionality
- #17 – Needs better documentation
- #32 – The Press This bookmarklet itself on the tools page does not have the code
Some relevant sources:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/22
For my link archive: the “old” stats page, as it shows more information in a better formatted way (especially on larger monitors) My Stats — WordPress.com.
The “new” stats page used only half the screen width (long live responsive layout): Stats ‹ 7443331 — WordPress.com.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 