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IndieWebifying my website: part 1, the why & how | AltPlatform

AltPlatform blogger Richard MacManus details how he's modifying his website to join the independent web. I'm tickled pink that he holds my site up as a quintessential example. (I'm hoping he's using it in the sense of the Latin word for five as I can name at least that many and even more that are better...) Of course, likeĀ Bernard of Chartres, I've only been able to see further because of giants like Matthias Pfefferle, David Shanske, dozens of other indieweb proponents, and the thousands upon thousands of folks in the WordPress community.

 
 
 
 
 

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The missing close parenthesis should be on line 72 before the closing em tag in at https://github.com/dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds/blob/master/includes/views/kind.php

Thus:
<code>echo '&lt;em&gt; (' . $site_name . ')&lt;/em&gt;';</code>

 

I was just enjoying the new Twitter icons when I thought @t is going to have to change his site. #indieweb

Fortunately it looks like the old versions are still working, but for how long?

 

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I'll check to see if it's the case with altplatforms' bug, but I've discovered that it's having Jetpack's commenting feature "Let readers use WordPress.com, Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ accounts to comment" activated that prevents the Webmention Form from appearing on the page. If I deactivate it, it not only appears properly, but shows up twice with the standalone plugin installed.

Incidentally it also causes issues on my 2016 theme where if one types too much in the enclosed field, the UI moves down and it becomes impossible to actually post the comment!

While I'm thinking about it, as an Indieweb-forward thought, would it be possible to put the Webmention Form at the top of the comment section instead of underneath it? While I'm (and I'm sure most of us are) receptive to comments in general, it would be nice to encourage others to own theirs at the top and then provide the default comment form underneath it. Just a thought...

I'll do some additional testing and report the bug to JetPack shortly.

 

@Chronotope Nice stream on journalism/publishing. Online publications can learn a lot from the model of publishing.

 
 

To honor 75 anniv. of Anne Frank's diary, I'll help someone buy a domain & set up a blog
https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/874283556255789060

 

@jomc Sounds like some of the raison &d'etre for the or conferences like

 

@hibbittsdesign @THiNGkeriNG @bonni208 @mburtis I'm curious if you've considered adding webmention to @getgrav for cross-site interaction, commenting, and mentions? I know some in who are hacking away at it.
https://indieweb.org/grav
https://indieweb.org/Webmention

 

@THiNGkeriNG @bonni208 @mburtis The @withknown platform is awesome for as well as some of the following list https://indieweb.org/projects

 

Some of what you're talking about @wiobyrne is the concept of "planet"
https://indieweb.org/planet