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

Gah. Apparently wordpress.com is discouraging 'https' for self-hosted blogs: Their redirection service does not allow any protocol but 'http'. I could swear it did when I first set it up, as I remember typing in my URL with 'https' and I thought I tested it with curl -I to make sure it works, but the docs have an explicit note saying:

Note: Site redirects will only point to a non-ssl ( http:// ) url.

I don't remember seeing it before, but the wayback machine suggests it was there since 2013, well before I switched to self-hosted.

I'm slowly copying the markdown versions of my posts after my recent move of this blog. It really is tedious, and I don't think I'll finish anytime soon, so in the meantime I created a plugin to output the [ code] shortcode that wordpress.com put in my post export in the same way that markdown does. This is the first plugin and shortcode I've created in a long while, but it was relatively quick to do working off of my posts on plugins and shortcodes. The biggest time consumer was figuring out how to deal with whitespace issues. Apparently, WordPress sometimes will add <p> and <br /> to shortcode content. Also, there were leading and trailing line breaks adding unnecessary space. My quick solution:

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