Mastodon is quickly becoming my favorite social media platform, so I thought I’d give the now-sorta-official ActivityPub plugin a go. The ActivityPub protocol is what Mastodon is built on, and ...
https://roytanck.com/2023/10/25/testing-the-wordpress-activitypub-plugin/
Writing Open Source software is bit of a weird proposition. You spend time and effort creating something useful, and when you’re done, you give it away. Literally anyone can then use your code,...
https://roytanck.com/2022/11/17/contributing-to-the-wordpress-photo-directory/
Surge is a new WordPress page caching plugin that stands out because it has no settings. There’s nothing to configure, it just works. If you’re an experienced webmaster however, there are a f...
https://roytanck.com/2022/01/13/tweaking-surge-by-adding-a-configuration-file/
A Supply Chain Attack is a type of cyber-attack where malicious software (or even hardware) is “smuggled” into the target system by modifying or replacing it while en route to its destination...
https://roytanck.com/2021/12/17/detecting-supply-chain-issues-with-plugin-report/
For the last seventeen years, I’ve been building WordPress-based websites. Since 2008, this has been the primary focus of my business, and I’ve been fortunate to have worked with many corpora...
https://roytanck.com/2021/12/16/wordpress-block-themes-options-not-decisions/
Last week, Konstantin Kovshenin released Surge, a new page caching plugin for WordPress. It’s main feature is that it has no configuration settings. Zero. Simply install and activate the plugin...
If you read my blog, you’ll know I’m concerned about online privacy and user tracking. Recently, Google has announced (and implemented) a new tracking mechanism that no longer requires cookie...
https://roytanck.com/2021/04/15/opt-out-of-floc-on-your-wordpress-website/
WordPress 5.5 introduced a new feature aimed at developers: Environment types. You can now specify the type of server in your wp-config file. Code can then make decisions based on whether a site ...
https://roytanck.com/2020/08/21/new-wordpress-plugin-display-environment-type/
During my 15 years of building and maintaining sites with WordPress, I’ve managed a number of medium-sized multisite installs. Sites with anywhere between 10 and 300 “blogs”, and a large nu...
https://roytanck.com/2020/07/16/network-admin-assistant-helps-keep-your-multisite-wordpress-tidy/
Recently, I completed an upgrade to the WordPress application that powers a number of kiosk screens at the WTC in Amsterdam. Designed by Geerdes Ontwerpen as part of a larger wayfinding solution,...
https://roytanck.com/2020/02/06/wordpress-wayfinding-wtc-amsterdam/