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.
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…
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!
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…
My first WordPress plugin uploaded for review
Short report on the upload of my WordPress plugin WP Tournament Registration for review.
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…
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.
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…
Cookiewarnung mit URL-Parameter: So nicht!
Cookiewarnungen sind ohne Zweifel eine Pest. Ich glaube auch nicht, daß sie nützen. Wegen ihrer großen Zahl werden sie vermutlich routinemäßig weggeklickt, ohne daß dabei irgendeine Informationsaufnahme beim Besucher stattfindet. Das dürfte denselben Effekt haben wie Alarmanlagen, die ständig Fehlalarme erzeugen. Ich vermeide daher das Setzen von hinweispflichtigen Cookies auf meinen Webseiten und benutze Browserplugins,…