Scripting News: Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

What I've learned about WordPress#

Thinking about WordPress this morning, APIs and feeds.#

This last year I've caught up with WordPress, have been asking questions, and one of the best thing about my work with Automattic is that the doors have been open. I have great teachers who are encouraging me, and of course are experts in and proud of WordPress, and as a result I think FeedLand and WordPress are going to work together in some very nice ways. Getting pretty close on some of it.#

A year ago I didn't even know that WordPress still had APIs. At some point the code I had that worked with WordPress via the MetaWeblog API broke, and I assumed that it was the end of the line, and took the feature out of my linkblogging tool. But I was wrong. And not only that there was Calypso, a modern REST interface, that works in the same model I use for FeedLand and Drummer. It's all there. I love it. All kinds of integrations will be possible. #

Getting FeedLand to work in the new environment has been a step by step process. It was built to run on a Digital Ocean server, with a file system. I've converted now all the pieces we needed, and it seems finally to run smoothly.#

Onward! #

Linkblog items for the day.

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