All posts by 'Louisa'

Select posts page

This caused trouble in the Astro sites which source content from WordPress sites like this. The 'Select posts' page is a block page containing selectors for By date — WP Archives block. Works in Astro. By category — WP Categories list. Doesn't work in Astro. By author — ncvp_author_list shortcode because WP doesn't provide a […]

Sort out RSS feed

Have four VScode windows up for four sites astro-blog. Native site from content collection called 'blog' astro-local. Local WP fed site. Deployed to Cloudflare directly with % npm run deploy astro-test. First site. Local without content collection astro-wpress. Cloud fed WP site Compare and contrast these files /astro.config.mjs /src/layouts/Layout.astro src/pages/rss.xml.js Issues found astro-blog. Didn't have […]

Categories & Tags

Categories and tags are the two default WordPress taxonomies used to organise content, with categories serving as broad, mandatory groupings (like topics in a library) and tags providing specific, optional keywords for granular details. Categories are hierarchical (parent/child), while tags are not. In practice individual sites will have their own guidelines for how to use […]

Move away from block editor

Now it's clear that I don't need full site editing and only need the block editor for the Home and Blog pages, convert all other pages and posts to the classic editor.

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Force strong passwords

I'm surprised this isn't part of WP core. There are a few plugins which address the problem, at least one of which admits to being susceptible to being bypassed by a knowledgeable hacker. It ought to be possible to see how strong a user's password is from the dashboard.

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