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If you’re reading this text, you’re probably seeing this project in action right now. I believe in owning my content first, and vowed to never publish elsewhere first again, no matter how small the content was. The goal of this site has been to make a holistic view of my presence online, and centralize everything I do, from a tweet-sized post to full-blown essays, from business promotions to what song I’ve been enjoying lately. My site has become, and will always be, my true home on the web.

This feed talks about the challenges I’ve had, the things I’ve needed to do, and the paradigms of running a site such as this.

  • Alex Standiford

    November 25, 2024

    I think I just found my winter break project. I have a collection of plugins on my site that handles syndication. Would be really nice to bundle it up in a PHPNomad Package. Looks like Bluesky really easy to set up.

    https://adactio.com/journal/21570

    Project Standiford Blog, WordPress
  • Alex Standiford

    November 18, 2024

    Bluesky + Mastodon are the last pieces of the puzzle to allow me to publish from my mobile without actually having the app on my phone. This will allow me to stay connected with the world, but still allow me to keep social as “a place” instead of an omnipresent part of my life.

    Project Standiford Blog
  • Alex Standiford

    September 30, 2024

    I’m on a mission to get social media off of my phone, but I still want to be able to publish content. I don’t want to consume on my phone though.

    I think if I can get a Twitter cross poster working reliably, my site plus the WordPress app can get me there.

    Project Standiford Blog, WordPress
  • Alex Standiford

    September 29, 2024

    Finding myself increasingly interested in updating my site so that it maps post formats to post types. So if you set a post format, it saves it as a mapped post type.

    I think that would give me all of the benefits of multiple post types, but still make it possible to use post types in the mobile app. This would make it a lot easier to filter post types since you don’t have to use a tax query.

    Project Standiford Blog, WordPress
  • Alex Standiford

    September 29, 2024

    Here’s a chart of my search analytics for my personal site over the last year. Can you tell when I switched back to non headless WordPress?

    I know headless can be SEO optimized, but in my experience, WordPress makes it effortless, comparatively speaking.

    headless WordPress, Project Standiford Blog, seo, WordPress
  • Alex Standiford

    September 25, 2024

    With some clever filters in my server, I can now use the WordPress app to reply to posts. It’s a little awkward since I have to copy the link, but still…a step in the right direction.

    fediverse, Project Standiford Blog, WordPress
  • Alex Standiford

    September 25, 2024

    Okay. Caching problems fixed. Unclear if the blog post formatting issue is fixed though. Hoping that excerpts will show with a link to the post when it’s not a micro post 🤞

    fediverse, Project Standiford Blog
  • Federating My Website
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    Federating My Website

    This post explores how I’ve added enhancements to my site to better-integrate with the Fediverse, and also how I’m using the Mastodon app to publish content direct to my WP site (!)

    September 25, 2024
    fediverse, Project Standiford Blog, WordPress
  • Alex Standiford

    September 25, 2024

    Holy shit. There’s a plugin that allows you to publish on your blog using Mastodon apps. You can now publish content on your WordPress site directly through the mastodon app. This is HUGE for mobile experience.

    Project Standiford Blog, WordPress
  • Alex Standiford

    September 25, 2024

    So blog is directly on the fediverse now! Moving forward this should auto-boost to my existing profile on Mastodon so I can still share with my followers there, but I no longer need to manually cross post. Still have to manually share on X, but one step at a time.

    once @pfefferle makes progress on the migration from Mastodon, maybe I can completely switch off that account. Getting closer!

    PS: I’m Using the booster plugin – going to share a PR soon to help with the stumbling points I had in using the plugin.

    ActivityPub, mastodon, Project Standiford Blog
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