Jesse Dyck

General web nerd. Rider of bicycles. Amateur picture taker.

  • WordPress in Higher Ed

    I just got home from nearly two-weeks of conference travel, and although I’m still trying to dissect all of experiences I have a few thoughts I wanted to share. First, the context of my travels: If I had to summarize all these experiences, it’s: WordPress is doing well in the higher ed space, but we…

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  • Converting to the Core WordPress Footnotes Block

    I had previously used Mark Cheret’s Footnotes plugin to, well, create footnotes in WordPress. WP 6.3 introduced this functionality natively into the block editor, and since then I’ve wanted to convert all my instances to use the new core block but hadn’t got around to it yet. That is, until I ran composer update today…

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  • Mastodon Verification with WordPress 6.2

    This is cool – WordPress 6.2 (coming out in a few days!) adds the ability to specify a rel attribute on social icons in the Social Icons block. This makes it super simple to verify your domain with a Mastodon account when using a Full Site Editor theme; just drop the Social Icons block and…

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  • My Twitter Replacement

    Spoiler: It’s Nitter. I made my last post to Twitter today (at least until the situation changes): To elaborate on that (in order of preference): Enter Nitter Unfortunately not everyone that I followed on Twitter is available in other places, which has been the main reason to stick around this long. I’m now using Nitter…

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