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I have brought back the display of existing comments on this blog. When I switched away from WordPress to my own blog solution, I didn't build any display of comments on posts since I haven't had comments enabled in years and wanted to make the switch quickly. I also wasn't sure how I wanted to handle storing them, since my site data repo is public and will likely have an open license at some point. Storing quotes by others under my own license is probably fine, but I decided to mostly do summaries unless the exact quote seemed important. I did mostly do full quotes of my responses, since that's definitely my data. So I put their comments and my responses all in a single markdown file per post, in more of a prose format than normal comments are shown.

I think I've got the issues with my wiki-blog's publishing to git fixed. Continue reading post "#4878"

I switched my blog away from WordPress and to my own wiki-blog software a little over a week ago. I did so even without an easy way to publish posts, as I had to create the date based folder structure, increment an id, enter formatted dates and other meta-data, and run a rebuild of my static list pages, all manually. After a fair amount of work, I now have an automated way to do most of this via CLI.

I've been working for some time towards moving my blog off of WordPress, towards a simpler and static friendly setup. In that interest, I have made a PHP script to copy the site data to a Markdown directory structure and copy the media files, called WP to Markdown. The file and folder structure is largely based on the URL path structure of a WordPress site using the default permalink structure. This will help me to reproduce a similar structure with the software that replaces WordPress, which I am in the process of writing.

I reduced my political and philosophical postings since combining my personal and professional blogs, but this election season and other recent events have reminded me of the importance of doing something individually towards my beliefs and interests and goals. Continue reading post "#3089"

WordPress offers the has_excerpt() method to determine if you create a separate excerpt on a post, but does not seem to have a built in function to ask if it uses the special comment <!--more--> for an excerpt coming from the beginning of the post content. Continue reading post "Checking if WordPress post has more"

My wordpress.com redirect seems to have turned itself off at some point before the year term I paid for. Continue reading post "#2273"

I guess the WordPress setting "Automatically close comments on articles older than x days" does close pingbacks as well. Continue reading post "#1993"

I have decided to disable comments on my blog, but leave pingbacks / trackbacks enabled. Continue reading post "Comments closed"

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