I’m still finding inline styles in old posts from my time with WordPress and it’s guttenberg editor. I like the idea of the guttenberg editor, but gosh if it doesnt bloat the fuck out of your html.
I’m now on ClassicPress which is WordPress, if WordPress hadnt gone down the swanny.
WordPress, like pretty much everyone, is gulping up the ai hype and introducing and showing off a bunch of ai capabilities around a wordpress website (as seen in State of the Word 2025)
My question for anyone out there is, is this even wanted by anyone?
Having a third party ai take action on a website is not exciting to me. It’s just another step in taking humans out of creative endeavours.
The one thing keeping me from migrating from WordPress to ClassicPress is the excellent ActivityPub plugin.
Its great, but i wish i had the time to port all the broken parts to the ClassicPress way of doing things i.e. the WP things that have changed since 4.9
Hmm. Seems that when my posts appear in fediverse, I am hit with that Ddos effect off all connected instances requesting my page at the same time.
This may only be for posts with images attached so I’m going to try and switch to using a plugin to offload my media on to Digital Ocean spaces.
Will report back.
i built a solution for this in Laravel.
im now in the process of building a WordPress plugin to import them into my website via the API on a cron job. If either could help let me know.
Making decent progress with my lastfm scrobbles importer plugin for WordPress. Importing (new and backdating) is working.
Just need to tidy up the admin display and sort out the displaying in templates.
It’s been years since I worked on WP plugins so it’s taking some time along with my screaming tot.
I’m working on a WordPress plugin to import scrobbles from Last fm and display on your website.
It’ll work like the traktivity plugin that imports and displays trakt watches for TV shows and films.
It’s an itch I want to scratch but hopefully could be helpful to others out there.
I love Laravel.
I also really like WordPress, for what it is. So when it came to originally putting my personal site together I just wanted to get a simple WordPress site together.
I have attempted to build my own website and blog in Laravel from scratch multiple times over the years. I even stuck with a build for a while but ultimately went back to WordPress.
My issue was only down to the fact that I wanted to write more in my own time and found I spent most my time tinkering.
But I really love Laravel.
So imagine my joy when I came across Statamic. Statamic is a CMS package that can be installed into a Laravel site and just works seamlessly alongside you Laravel code.
I am in the process of rebuilding my personal site and will be getting it live as soon as I can.
I think I will migrate my current site to a new domain, something like “davidpeach.me”, and then use the 4042302 technique to ensure my old posts are still found as I migrate the posts over.
I’m really looking forward to getting creative with Statamic and then layering on all of the excellent Laravel features as a way to learn as much, and refresh my mind, about my favourite framework.
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod g+rwx {} +
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod g+rw {} +Finally got my site to use the roots wordpress structure. Composer dependency management and deployment with laravel forge. 🤓
Why do WordPress theme developers have to bloody overcomplicate everything?
Internal server error fixed from the train on my phone. Boom! Oh WordPress how you test me.