The MP3 is like the gif, there are better file formats but these are used everywhere and loved by (almost) everyone. I am reading a lot about the demise of the MP3, a bit premature perhaps.
WordPress menus fixed, fault mine & mine alone
I just updated my blog to the latest version of WordPress.
All seemed fine until I had a look at the site. Some of my menus had went a little weird.
Quite a few of the titles had changed to ellipses! I went into the dashboard and changed them back, my changes didn’t stick. I presumed that it must have been the upgrade. I had no idea where to start so shot off a quick tweet for help.
After dinner I calmed down a little and though about the changes to my blog I’d made recently for mico blogging. One of those was to give posts without a title titles on wp_insert_post_data. It uses ellipse! This was meant for posts arriving from the micro.blog app. They would get titles set when they arrived on my blog, to prevent ugliness in he dashboard.
function modify_post_title($data)
{
if ($data[ 'post_title' ] == '' ) {
//wp_filter_nohtml_kses strips html and then I replace
$title = str_replace( " " , " " , substr( wp_filter_nohtml_kses( $data[ 'post_content' ] ) , 0, 60 ) ) . "..." ;
$data['post_title'] = $title ;
}
return $data; // Returns the modified data.
}
so I’ve changed the if to:
if ($data[ 'post_title' ] == '' && $data[ 'post_type' ] == 'post' )
Which seems to have solved the problem and taught me a lesson.
Microcast 7: Small thoughts on micro.blog
Some small thoughts on micro.blog as a microcast.
I like this, You like my like of your like of my status on Vimeo
Enjoyed tonight’s drive home listen: Tantek Çelik – The once and future IndieWeb on Huffduffer ripped from YouTube by huffduff-video
I’ve posted the microblog functions I am current using on my blog here, in case they are of use or mistakes can be pointed out.
Found this weird creature washed up on Brassie beach this afternoon
The first pass at improving discovery using a directory pulled from webmentions is live. It is using a custom WP page template which needs a bit of "prettying up" but it works.
This, from Colin Walker is a great idea, produce a list of blogs from webmentions on your site. Directory | Social Thoughts
Inception
liked: snarfed.org