Unless something went horribly wrong, the ActivityPub protocol now works on all Author Buzz UK sites. That means that Mastodon verified links should start verifying and Mastodon/Fediverse social media accounts can now follow our blogs. Yes, you can now subscribe to Author Buzz blogs from within your Mastodon account. One …

Last night, while normal people slept, I completely redid the profile area. Your profile now consists of several information boxes which will try to arrange themselves nicely on the screen. New sections include: After a rocky start, because I had made a tiny but consequential error, the update has now …

Today I will be working on integrating persistent object caching. In theory, you should not see any problems. Also, in theory, the site should be faster and more responsive as a result. Update: It turns out that, with our current set-up, no. As I am on a speed-up and optimise …

Yes, it might very well be. Once I am confident that this movement (and the technology I am using to join in) is stable, I will roll it out to Author Buzz UK. After all, Author Buzz was created as a social network for authors. So why not decentralise and …

Announcing a way to make your Author Buzz site faster and a way to target mobile users with speically written content. Today we have added two exciting new features – one of which was written by Google. Faster content for better SEO Google make no secret of the fact that …

No, that’s not some weird geek code AB-in.UK is the new Author Buzz short URL service. But it is so much more than a URL shortener. At present, we are closed beta testing URL shortening. That’s because there are a fair few jagged edges that we need to work through. …

API – that thing that geeks use to make magic happen is coming to Author Buzz. We will be rolling out two sets of API specs. The first is a collection of theme hooks and filters. Once all themes available to our bloggers support these API, we will release a …

This is less a big deal update and more me having some fun but Author Buzz now has secret dad jokes. I was playing with the hooks in WordPress and realised I could use send_headers. That’s a hook for sending headers – who would have guessed. As a result, if …

There are no development updates to share at the moment. However, I thought I would remind you of a feature that we recently rolled out. The post planning calendar. The WordPress Editorial Calendar is one such way to manage this task. The editorial calendar is something we added right after …