Did you know you could directly access all the media files in your WordPress library via the API?1 All I had to do was look and here’s the documentation on all sorts of nice options. You can also restrict the query by file type with a URL like this option to get 10 most recent […]
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This is a tiny example of how the little things you learn along the way change how you think about options. Back around 2022, I’d used a little PHP function to scan a directory and build an index to the files there using scandir. At some point later, I used that to create an […]
I’ve been meaning to get all the stuff that used to be automated to Twitter to work with Mastodon. I took about 15 minutes1 after reading a Mastodon-related post from Alan to mess around and see what I could figure out. Now I’ve got 15 minutes to write it down. Consider that half an hour […]
Ever since Google turned off direct access to the JSON data from Google Sheets, I’ve used a couple of App Script workarounds. They were a bit clumsy for what I was doing but better than re-writing the entire page. I find going through the whole oAuth and Google project process to be more hassle than […]
In WordPress Multisite there are some scenarios where a site with a custom domain can get lost. There is the central place in network admin where you can assign custom domains but you can also do it at the site level. If it’s done at the site level, it’s possible for that site to become […]
This post is supporting a bunch of tweets going out for pressedconf22 on March 24. Why? The basic idea is that WordPress is good for taking care of the mechanics of writing on the Internet. It deals with users, logins, uploading media, writing to the database, etc. On the other hand, WordPress themes can feel […]
A long time ago, I put a post up about getting ACF Fields for a custom post type in the WP JSON API response but you’d have to do that one by one. Sometimes that would be good but if you have a lot of fields and don’t mind them being public it’s not so […]
I have someone who gathered a bunch of tweets for their research using Martin’s TAGS aggregator. She wanted to show all the avatars. Once I published the spreadsheet, here’s all the javascript needed to make that happen. It’s lightly annotated for your reading pleasure and the functioning codepen example is included below. See the Pen […]
Origin Story This is an odd one but has a number of uses outside this weird scenario. In this case authors have access to Site B but want the content they write to show up on Site A on the appropriate pages/posts. Given this is a multisite I could tie the sites together and do […]
Origin Story We were looking to pull in live weather data for a eco-related design contest that VCU Qatar is hosting. I found a free API for weather but wanted a way to use it via javascript and not expose any secrets. That led to the script below. Many APIs have query strings that require […]
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