When I post a like or reply the postkinds plugin grabs title and author and puts it at the top of the post. Look ok on blog but when it arrives on microblog the heart image is gone and the quote looks as if it might be mine. Same with twitter. I need to fix that. Somehow…
@johnjohnston Most likely because it runs to over 280 characters so the formatting & links get stripped.
@colinwalker probably, but I’ve trimmed some done (but the like this button gets included sometime). I’d like the quote to look quoted & I’d like to find out how to replace the themes like icon with text or an emoji.
@johnjohnston For those situations I typically put an appropriate emoji, the title of the original and the author in the title of my post (these don’t display as the Post Kinds plugin strips them out for display on the blog). Micro.blog then picks that up and provides it as a simple link instead of treating it like a status update (which either has no title or has a datetimestamp like some have been using.)
Here’s roughly the reason that the “Like” button is being pushed into your syndicated copies: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/4399
Ultimately, I decided that very few people were using that like functionality on my site (which is WordPress specific), so I just turned it off in JetPack to “fix” the problem. There are other possible methods to fix it within your theme, but it will ultimately be very hacky based on my past attempts.
@c Thanks, I am generating titles automatically. I think most of my blog plumbing and organisation needs a bit of work. Slowly getting a better understanding. You posts & comments have been very helpful indeed.
@c @johnjohnston I’m still getting duplicate photo posts when I turn on the Post Kinds plugin. Wondering if it’s a quirk of the Independent Publisher theme.
@stefp I had to make my own template for kind-photo for my child theme (sempress) just commented out the gallery shortcode.
@johnjohnston Thanks. Where exactly in the plugin code is the part of the template that needs to be changed? I’ve been looking through the various sections but can’t find anything that looks familiar.
@stefp @c I copied indieweb-post-kinds/includes/views/kind-photo.php to /sempress-child/kind_views/kind-photo.php and commented out the gallery block. Seems like a nice system once you know.
@johnjohnston That did the trick. I was trying to edit from within the WordPress admin section but a lot of those individual views don’t show up there. I had to do it via FTP. Thanks again.