Tag: WordPress

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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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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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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March 26, 2020

archive.pl 2.0 released

Today I finally released the latest build of my archive.pl script. Due to its massive changes I decided to increase the main version, although there is no incompatibility to prior version calls. The main purpose of archive.pl is to store sets of URLs in the Internet Archive and store an index of them as Atom feed, HTML page or WordPress...

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January 8, 2020

archive.pl 1.8 released

Today a new version of my Perl script archive.pl has been released (version 1.8). There are three new features: The resulting index page can now automatically get posted to a WordPress blog. The Internet Archive has introduced a request limit (15 requests per minute). archive.pl therefore delays archiving to a reasonable extend (10 seconds as default). On the other hand,...

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