hooper
hooper

I tried to remove titles from my RSS feed….seems like there should be an official micro.blog wordpress theme and install guide….

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hooper You can remove titles from your RSS for status posts using a little bit of code in your functions.php. And welcome to micro.blog 😀

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hooper
hooper

@colinwalker A million thanks. That, plus your little snippet to add titles when the title is blank, solved my problems. Sorry - had to switch to d/m/Y format...ha.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hooper No problem at all 👍 glad it did what you need. And no need to apologise 😆

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smokey
smokey

@colinwalker Wish I'd seen that before Googling my way into writing a custom feed :-)

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smokey
smokey

@hooper @colinwalker Wishing there were some sort of wiki or the like where people could start putting together a "WordPress for micro.blog" guide (tips, tricks, known issues) and then start turning it into a nice documentation pull request against the help site…

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hooper
hooper

@smokey agreed. It would be a boon I think if there always a turn key Wordpress solution for micro.blog.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hooper @smokey Well, @manton is writing his book which will include a chapter or two on using WordPress for microblogging. If there’s anything I can help with let me know and I’ll try what I can.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@smokey We’ve all been there 😉 I created a custom feed for my own micro-posts until I decided to integrate them with my main feed.

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smokey
smokey

@colinwalker Yeah, I'm still thinking about what I want to end up doing, and that was the path of least resistance at that point, since I'd apparently configured your date-as-title shim in a way that micro.blog didn't strip (too much text?).

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cheesemaker
cheesemaker

@hooper @smokey what are you trying to do? I’ve been running a Wordpress setup for quite a while now without too much headache.

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smokey
smokey

@cheesemaker @hooper For me, nothing really right now, but the gap between Getting started and having something that looks good in WordPress and here is large, unless you know to look for @colinwalker code bits, for instance.

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smokey
smokey

@cheesemaker @hooper Plus @names are not parsed in posts coming from WordPress (known issue IIUC) & getting Webmention for replies, etc. Just having a bit more documented would be good IMO. I also had to do a bunch of guessing to connect iOS app when Help didn't help w/the error.

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manton
manton

@hooper @colinwalker What we recommend is that people just leave the title blank, so it doesn't require any major customization. One of the goals with Micro.blog is that installing anything extra is optional. (I don't use any plugins in my WordPress install. Definitely a lot more in the book I'm writing.)

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JRGOODRICHBLOG
JRGOODRICHBLOG

@manton your just dope! Thanks for the advice

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cheesemaker
cheesemaker

@smokey interesting. What problems did you have connecting the iOS client to Wordpress? It sort of just worked for me.

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smokey
smokey

@cheesemaker Long ago, I cleaned up a bunch of junk WP put in the head & disabled the RSD link as part of that. Unusual, and my fault, but if there were docs for the error msg & stated that was what the app needed, I'd've figured it out vs having to guess how XML-RPC was "broken"

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@manton @hooper I definitely make things more complicated than they need to be but I’m a bit fussy and want them looking/working a specific way on the backend. It all depends on how you’re set up and what you want to get from it, but things can be ridiculously simple.

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hooper
hooper

@manton I tried the blank title concept, and it seemed to work. But then Wordpress just refers to posts as (No Title) which was confusing.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hooper @manton That's why I took the approach I did, even if it's possibly more complicated that it needs to be. I wanted to be able to easily distinguish between posts on the backend.

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hooper
hooper

@colinwalker Understood. I think your approach is clean and because it's simply in the functions.php file it could be bundled with a micro.blog-compatible wordpress theme.

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smokey
smokey

@smokey Ouf, just spent the last two hours working on a blog post to sort-of address this :o Need to sleep on it and read it with fresh eyes in the morning before posting :-)

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