I've released Cornerstone, a WordPress theme built for the IndieWeb community. It's now available on GitHub under the GPL v2 licence.

I've released Cornerstone, a WordPress theme built for the IndieWeb community. It's now available on GitHub under the GPL v2 licence.

The continuing, talking to legacy alt media people, sparks off clarification. The current conversation comes from the #indieweb, rooted in individualism, the digital mirror of the lone artisan, the self-sufficient homesteader, the coder as sovereign subject. This is not a critique in itself – individualism is a core driver of creativity and experimentation. But taken as the centre of gravity, it is a politics that naturally aligns with capitalism. Each person builds their site, their stack, […]

The continuing, talking to legacy alt media people, sparks off clarification. The current conversation comes from the #indieweb, rooted in individualism, the digital mirror of the lone artisan, the self-sufficient homesteader, the coder as sovereign subject. This is not a critique in itself – individualism is a core driver of creativity and experimentation. But taken as the centre of gravity, it is a politics that naturally aligns with capitalism. Each person builds their site, their stack, […]

To enhance WordPress comment functionality, consider replacing comments with Webmentions for better engagement and reduced spam. If using comments, enable them selectively, add spam protection, disable nested comments, and introduce moderator roles. Additional features like private comments, comment notifications, and user identification can improve user experience and interaction quality.

Do you know what the “Fediverse” is? Are you in it? Using the ActivityPub plugin (GitHub), any WordPress site (or user) can be federated and act as a client or server in relation to other ActivityPub users and platforms, like mstdn.ca (a Mastodon instance) and edmontonian.social (a Misskey instance) because they all implement the ActivityPub standard for a decentralized social web.

Tomorrow at our July meetup, come learn about ActivityPub, Federated networks, and WordPress with […]

Do you know what the “Fediverse” is? Are you in it? Using the ActivityPub plugin (GitHub), any WordPress site (or user) can be federated and act as a client or server in relation to other ActivityPub users and platforms, like mstdn.ca (a Mastodon instance) and edmontonian.social (a Misskey instance) because they all implement the ActivityPub standard for a decentralized social web.

Tomorrow at our July meetup, come learn about ActivityPub, Federated networks, and WordPress with […]