Fixes and tweaks
In this morning’s dev notes, we have a patched potential security vulnerability and some CSS tweaks to do with sign up. First, the scary-sounding one. I patched a possible security hole. Some core site functionality was being provided by a deprecated and retired plugin. A patched version exists, but it …
FAIR package manager
The Linux Foundation has announced the FAIR package manager for WordPress. This will be an independent and neutral plugin and theme package manager. One of the features of FAIR is the ability to deactivate Gravatar avatars, which means a slightly reduced privacy leak (depending on how much you trust Gravatar). …
A few small display bugs
I’m currently tracking a few small bugs with the site. I do not have an ETA on fixing all the bugs because I am yet to figure out what caused them.
The Online Safety Act 2023
The Online Safety Act 2023 comes into force Monday. This should be a good thing except that I now have to do a mountain of paperwork (correctly on the first try) to basically say, “yes, we moderate and no dangerous content is hosted here”. Failure to do this could land …
40 spam accounts purged
It looks like there was a fat old spam run at our site recently. The spam accounts have now been removed. If I missed any, let me know.
Fediverse changes
I’ve had to make a change to the way Author Buzz syndicates content to places like Mastodon. We used to have forum topics and replies in the syndication stream. I have now pulled it back to only posts to the main blog. The reason for dialling it back was I …
Adding libraries: A choice to be made
I’ve finally gotten to the point of working out how to import all libraries in the UK. This will allow authors to (one day) list which libraries carry their books; and other things like that. The choice before me now is do I make each library a type of post/page …
Revising Blog Themes
I have started the process of revising the themes on offer to our bloggers. In particular, I want to remove themes that hide their best features behind a paywall and themes that have not been kept up to date. I will do my best to make sure there are some …
Possible site speed-up feature
The news is that WordPress released a performance plugin that could offer “Near-Instant Load Times”. Danny pointed this one out to me. It looks good. WordPress released an official plugin that adds support for a cutting edge technology called speculative loading that can help boost site performance and improve the …
Stand by for updates
I’ve got a couple of bits to take care of today. Here’s to a smooth update. Update I guess, two out of three ain’t bad.