Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
I need two things in a WordPress plugin to notify subscribers whenever I post new content here.
Problem: You have an HTML-only web page, carefully designed, that you want to bring as-is into WordPress without investing hours on redesign.
Compounding problem: This page uses three includes as well as a responsive layout and stylesheets that are entirely different from anything offered by the WordPress you are using.
Solution: Create a special single-use custom WordPress page template.
Good news: I’m about to tell you how to do this.
Additional good news: The concept below can be modified into additional WordPress page templates for bringing in other HTML content into WordPress-powered sites. Read it all
Last week I wrote a Quick Draft of an idea for a blog post on my ebooks blog. But it vanished without a trace when I clicked Save Draft the first time! 🙁
After searching for it high and low, I gave it up as a loss to a program quirk. It wasn’t much and I didn’t figure it would take me long to reconstruct it. Sometime. 🙄
Well, this evening I saw that WordPress 6.8.3 had been released. I checked to see what it was about and learned…
The “Quick Draft” tool on the dashboard screen was broken in the 3.8.2 update. If you tried to use it, your draft would disappear and it wouldn’t save.
Sooo…that’s what my “misfortune” had been about! I was glad to see the problem had been discovered and fixed.
But I was very impressed by this: Read it all
I checked my email early yesterday morning and saw this snuggled in the Inbox:
History happened while I wasn’t looking! For the first time ever, one of my WordPress installations updated without any attention from me.
I clicked that email in my Inbox listing, and sure enough…
So without any action on my part, my devotional blog churned through the WordPress Maintenance Release into 3.7.1 — nice!
I logged into Panting Hart and was greeted with this:
It truly was while I slept!
Though I prefer to maintain control over my sites, I welcome these automatic, background updates to WordPress. Thankfully, major updates aren’t included in this. For instance, December’s projected 3.8 upgrade we’ll still have to do manually.
Again, a huge thumbs-up to WordPress. (And you’re blogging using another platform…why? 😆 )
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Lies beneath the hood
What is that all about? 😯
So hackers and attackers have been on the loose against self-hosted WordPress installations.
This post applies to you…even if you do not use WordPress!
I’m here with a message for you…not about WordPress…but about practicing safe passwords.
Four years ago I wrote about Pitching Pitiful Passwords.
This morning I was reminded of a simpler, yet more effective, password tactic: Read it all
As I understood, WordPress aimed to release version 3.5 three days ago.
Nothing yet.
Something must have come up since RC3.
And they’re fixing it.
Good!
Thank you, WordPress, for not releasing a faulty product, no matter what the production schedule!