Progressive Web Apps: How They’ll Change Your WordPress Business
This story made the business case for making your responsive WordPress website into a Progressive Web App. This technique allows your visitors to place your site on their mobile desktop for easy access. I followed it with a step-by-step HowTo on the process.
XML-RPC and Why It’s Time to Remove it for WordPress Security
This piece for WPMUDev sounds really esoteric. The post explains perhaps the most important thing users can do to protect their sites from attack.
WordPress Documentation: Goodbye Codex, Hello HelpHub
A preview of the new WordPress HelpHub.
What the New Webmention and Annotation W3C Standards Mean for WordPress
I’ve become something of a standards geek. The key to the success of the Open Web is that everyone can get a very similar experience, no matter what tool they use to reach the web. The standards that I covered here focus on interaction between users and sites (annotation) and between sites (webmention). Stuff worth knowing about.
Publish Help Content on WordPress with easyDITA – TechWhirl Software Review
How to Add Medium’s Most Popular Features to WordPress
When Medium.com laid off a bunch of staff, folks had a reasonable question whether the site would survive very long. The WordPress community aimed to make it easier to jump from Medium to WordPress without sacrificing features. They gained control over their content too. Here, I offered something like a “How to leave Medium” guide.
A Guide to Sharing Your WordPress Images with Creative Commons
This article explains the Creative Commons process and why it’s useful for web-based content. I offer a step-by-step guide to applying Creative Commons licenses to your own photographs and other images. The story was included in WPMUDev’s year-end social media campaign in 2017.
Book Review: Conversation and Community — The Social Web for Documentation
This is a book about some of my favorite topics: Social media, open source development, and technical communication. Read the review for more context.
openSUSE Board Chair: Nearly Pulled Plug on Distro in 2015
Got this story while reviewing a thread on the openSUSE mailing list. Proof that you’ll never know where you’ll find a good story: the original thread topic was “openSUSE merits a better home page.”
Quick Thunderbird Tip: Repairing Mail Summary Files
By far the most popular post on Notes from the Metaverse. I show how to fix broken folders in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. If Thunderbird isn’t downloading new mail, this fix could solve the problem.