Project Standiford Blog

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.

Looking For A Good Content Organizer For WordPress (Solved!)

I recently imported a decades worth of tweets on my site, and the hashtags were automatically added as regular tags. Now I want to go through and wrangle them. I know I can do a lot of this in core WordPress, but I’m hoping I can find some utilities that will make this easier.

A Litany of Potential Improvements.

After importing over a decade of tweets into my site, I had several improvements to offer to the import utility I used. I compiled my changes to the code, and submitted it as a pull request, detailing what I needed, and why.

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WHEW what a process! I managed to get all of my tweets that I exported and deleted from Twitter two years ago, all imported into this site, including all of the photos and videos. I think I can finally say that I have centralized all of my content through alexstandiford.com now. Huge thanks to Shawn Hooper for building this importer, as it gave me a big leg up in the process. From here, it's just a matter of wrangling all of the tags, and generally organizing the content a little better, but the fact that it's in WordPress is a huge first step.

I'll share a blog post that goes into the stack, and details of the process soon.

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I made several small improvements to my site today. Chief of which is finally getting the mysterious clock in the top-right corner functional on mobile. Also, dancing mermaids. 🧜‍♀️

I still have a vision of putting a music player on it, and discovered I can totally do this with Last FM. That's coming. We must have the spirit of 2000s era MySpace, or it's not authentic.

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Reclaiming Authenticity: Building Your Personal Hub in A Post-Twitter Era

This presentation covers how I transformed my website from being a static digital portfolio into a dynamic hub, ingrained with my social presence, containing the most authentic version of me online.

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I’ve started to use Cloudinary for media hosting solution on this site. It seems really good so-far, except for the fact that my media URLs aren’t working quite right when I upload from mobile. Hoping to get that resolved because other than that, this seems like the perfect solution to my problem.

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Old URL used when uploading media from the WordPress APP via the block editor

I submitted a bug report for the Cloudinary plugin, related to the mobile experience when uploading media using the WordPress app.

Looking For a Robust Media Solution on My Self-Hosted WP Site (Resolved)

Hey folks! I appreciate you taking the time to read and offer recommendations. I want a seamless way to upload media directly from the WordPress mobile app, but without hosting it on my site. The ideal service would handle large files and optimize them for the web. Anyone got suggestions? More context in the linked article.

WPCoffeeTalk: Alex Standiford

I had the pleasure of chatting with Michelle Frechette on WPCoffeeTalk today. We talked about WordPress, my new site, and the fields API

Alex Standiford on How WordPress and the Fediverse Can Be Combined

I was featured on WP Tavern, where Nathan and I talked about how the Fediverse has transformed my approach to publishing content online.