I tried to remove titles from my RSS feed….seems like there should be an official micro.blog wordpress theme and install guide….
I tried to remove titles from my RSS feed….seems like there should be an official micro.blog wordpress theme and install guide….
@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 😀
@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.
@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…
@smokey agreed. It would be a boon I think if there always a turn key Wordpress solution for micro.blog.
@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.
@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?).
@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.
@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.
@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.)
@smokey interesting. What problems did you have connecting the iOS client to Wordpress? It sort of just worked for me.
@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"
@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.
@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.