A summary overview of changes I made to this site, to make it more fully a indieweb hub / my core online presence. The set-up of my WordPress installation also has been described.
Theme related tweaks
- Created child theme of Sempress, to be able to change appearance and functions
- Renamed comments to reactions (as they contain likes, reposts, mentions etc.)
in the entry-footer template and the comments template - Removed h-card microformats, and put in a generic link to my about page for the author in the Sempress function sempress_posted_on. Without a link to the author mentions show up as anonymous elsewhere.
- Removed the sharing buttons I used (although they were GDPR compliant using the Sharriff plugin, but they got in the way a lot I felt.
- Added a few menu options for various aspects of my postings (books, check-ins, languages)
- Introduced several categories to deal with different content streams: Dutch, German for non-English postings, Day to Day for things not on the home page, Plazes for check-ins, Books for ehh books, RSS-Only for unlisted postings, and Micromessage for tweets I send from the blog. This allows me to vary how I display these different types of things (or not)
- Displaying last edited and created dates to (wiki)pages
- Added a widget with projects I support
- Added to the single post template a section that mentions and links the number of Hypothes.is annotations for that post, where they exist.
Functionality related tweaks
- Started creating pages as a wiki-like knowledgebase, using page categories to create the wiki structure
- To show excerpts from webmentions I changed the template for a webmention in the Semantinc backlinks plugin, class-linkbacks-handler.php
- Added a plugin to display blogposts on the same date in previous years.
- Added plugin Widget Context to remove recent posts and comments from individual posting’s pages, as they cause trouble with parsing them for webmentions.
- Using categories as differentiator I added language mark-up to individual postings, category archives. Also added automatic translation links to non-English postings in the RSS feed (not on the site). On the front page non-English postings have language mark-up around the posting.
- Added a blogroll that is an OPML file with a stylesheet, so it can be equally read by humans and machines.
- Added an extra RSS feed for comments that excludes webmentions and ping/trackbacks
- Added a /feeds page
- Added a Now page
- Added a Hello page
- Added a way to share book lists / feeds.
- Stopped embedding slide decks, and stopped embedding new Flickr photos (as well as removed older embeds, currently 23 postings between January 2013 and July 2018 still have them, and 22 postings from June 2006 to July 2009)
- Removed all affilliate links to Amazon books as it entails tracking
- Added an Index (using a plugin)
- Added my own basic check-in and Dopplr style posts
Bookmarked Identifying Post Kinds in WordPress RSS Feeds (by Dan Q)
This is something I might add to my RSS feed too. Because, just like in this posting, I always post my own remarks above the thing I am bookmarking, liking or replying to, it is sometimes confusing to readers what I am referring to in those first sentences of a post.
I do wonder how it looks in my case though, as I usually don’t add titles to bookmarks, likes and replies, and this little snippet of code adds the post type to that non-existent title. Main question is would it indeed help to reduce confusement? Added to the list of site-tweaks to do.
Peter asked me if it is possible to change my RSS feed for my comments. Right now it contains any reaction, which come in the form of webmentions, likes, reposts, as well as actual replies and comments. Essentially it is currently not a comment feed, but a reaction feed. As part of my site tweaks I will see if I can turn it into a real comment feed (that includes webmentions that are replies), and how to change the way some things are displayed (I had that but it got overwritten by plugin updates).
For now I have renamed the comment feed, so new subscribers have the right expectations.
This is the frontpage of my emerging wiki-like collection of semi-permanent content. Where blogposts form a ‘river’ of items, for reference it is useful to have a range of more static ‘pools’ of content. Both to provide additional context and background to blogposts, as well as a useful documentation in itself. Documentation of ongoing work, reading, research, or experiments. (April 2018).
Topics
Networked Agency
Ethics by Design
Indieweb
Information strategies and PKM
Site tweaks
Linqurator bookmarking tool
Bringing Slides home / self-hosting my presentation slides
Federated bookshelves