Category: Web Development

April 13, 2023

YaCy’s Docker image behind Nginx as reverse proxy

YaCy is a peer-to-peer search engine. Every peer sets up his own client and is able to crawl and index websites. Searches are carried out by contacting all known peers and cumulating their returns. It is not necessary to have a web server for that. You may well install YaCy on your office computer but of course it only works...

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December 25, 2022

A Twitter-like widget of fediverse posts in WordPress via RSS

The post explains how to display a Twitter-like feed of fediverse posts in the sidebar of a WordPress site. through the RSS feed.

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December 3, 2022

archive.pl v2.2 released

I have released the 2.2 version of my Perl script archive.pl for saving URL sets in the Internet Archive. The most important improvement is that there is a Docker image now that contains TOR as service for a every 10 seconds IP rotation and a headless Firefox browser that betters the quality of HTML downloads and analysis. There is a...

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Swiss Chess Table Cleaner

A tool that rebuilds tables generated with the tournament manager Swiss-Chess in order to get a responsive and fit it to your corporate identity.

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March 10, 2021

WP Tournament Registration updated to 1.1.2

I have released a new version (1.1.2) of my WordPress Plugin WP Tournament Registration. There are only small changes in the documentation and it is tested with the brand new WordPress release 5.7 now. You can check it out on the project page or read the entire manual on the WordPress plugin page. Enjoy!

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October 1, 2020

WP Tournament Registration finally released

WP Tournament Registration is my first WordPress plugin to be published in the official WordPress repository. It provides a registration form mainly intended for hobby sport events. Thus it is not planned to provide interfaces to commercial ticketing systems but easy data editing and highly configurable download formats. It was originally developed for the 2020 championship of my local chess...

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September 11, 2020

My first WordPress plugin uploaded for review

Short report on the upload of my WordPress plugin WP Tournament Registration for review.

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July 13, 2020

archive.pl v2.1 released

I have released a new version of my Perl script archive.pl. Besides some minor enhancements and corrections it is now capable to operate the Internet Archive web submission interface through a proxy server. This is to circumvent the submission limit of 15 URLs per minute and IP by employing a proxy server that is capable of rotating IPs like fi....

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May 11, 2020

Discontinued WordPress plugin ‘Post Archival in the Internet Archive’ increases the TTFB significantly

The discontinued WordPress plugin ‘Post Archival in the Internet Archive’ leads to a massive increase of TTFB. Learn how to fix it.

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April 27, 2020

How to date back media uploads in WordPress?

WordPress’ media library is organized as a sequence of /year/month folders out of box. The question how to upload media files in past folders arises frequently, although this is rarely necessary. Why not simply doing HTTP status 301 redirections when converting sites to WordPress? Then it is of no importance to which folder the redirection points. If you would do...

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