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A: How do I write a URL with internal formatting without having it auto-link?

5:32 AM

Talked with an SEO Expert someday, he exclaimed:
"I failed to enable GZip Compression to any WordPress site"

I personally failed with the Web resources available... :(

Is that the reality or a myth?

Pieter Goosen

6:17 AM

@BradDalton Just a tip, if you do edits on questions, please keep the tags in mind. I'm referring to this edit. Remove tags from questions that has no relevance to the question. Tags like wordpress.org, wordpress.com

bungeshea

9:33 AM

@Sven you can also replace the colon in the protocol with &colon; or any one of the slashes with /

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Nest the formatting. http://stackoverflow.com is a bold non-clickable link, formatted as: **`http://stackoverflow.com`** To make it italics as well, simply add underscores or more asterixes: http://stackoverflow.com You cannot use MarkDown for inter-word formatting though. You'll have to swit...

Sven

@bungeshea Of course! Such a neat idea! Thank you for helping :)

10:17 AM

@MayeenulIslam myth? what is?

10:43 AM

So, you made it. You could do the GZip Compression into your WP site? How?

I failed like him

lol, gzip compression is real! :D

server-configs-apache / dist / .htaccess

11:07 AM

enabled GZip as per your suggestion with my risk.
http://nishachor.com

Is everything Ok? I can't check. :( Google PageSpeed shows broken site once, and good view on another load. Confused

GPSpd But still suggesting enable compression

REDbot: <http://nishachor.com/> says compressed

@Rarst Thanks a lot

Again you proved you are my teacher. :)
Thanks for listening us

bungeshea

@MayeenulIslam I think the warnings in Page Speed relate to css and js files from other sites. the .htaccess rules only apply to your own site

@bungeshea Right you are

Thanks for pointing that out

12:39 PM

Question: When you have a whole WP site stack including build system, vm setup, deployment automation, docs and so on in one repo. The sites dependencies are managed with composer. Then you have a custom theme that is only ever used on this one site. Would you still make the theme a separate repo added as a composer dependency or just put it in the main site stack repo? Clear what I am asking?

works either way really

I think for simplicity I'll just keep anything in the main repo. In case I change my mind nothing keeps me from kicking it out and adding a separate repo to composer. Or did I forget something? Handling multiple repos in one project in PhpStorm isn't really intuitive...

12:58 PM

@kraftner I gave up and used the command line instead

much more powerful, same git interface everywhere I go, faster responses, and in the longrun easier

PHPStorm would hiccup with stupid stuff like freezing on the add changes screen, or everything on the dialog worked except the commit button =s

or stuff like right clicking on my repo to commit but PHPStorm hasnt been explicitly told and tries to add it to the root folders git repo instead, I'd have thought having a .git folder there would make it obvious its a different git repo

anyone know what plugin does this shortcode [wppg_photo_details]

google search brings up tons of sites with it showing no output

nm found the culprit github.com/wp-plugins/simple-photo-gallery

1:24 PM

VPS recommendations?

I know people talk about uberspace.de

managed or unmanaged

I dont mind managing it myself and setting up stuff

my concerns are price, specs good enough for a super zippy tomjn.com, possibly a second site not much more, and not having it go down or having stupid outages, if it goes down it'll be because i made a stupid mistake

digital ocean , linode, servint are my 3 go to unmanaged

I was looking at digital ocean

the $10 1GB ram 30gb ssd looked nifty

atm I have about 20-30 sites dumped on a dreamhost shared acc

I use d.o. for 4 sites have not had any issues been 1.5 years

has a vagrant capable api as well but havent used it

1:32 PM

what's the droplet thing?

ah found the faq mention of it

+1 uberspace.de (I created an account last week, had a question in the evening, got a response the same night(!) from two people while all uberspace people were on a train to a team meeting. and all of that while I haven't paid nothing yet as I'm still in the trial phase) But probably only good if you speak german.

I want to use this havent had time to mess with it github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-digitalocean

vagrant push to d.o

2:02 PM

freemium and premium plugins should offer free shit when people fix their bugs

@Wyck word

3:49 PM

anyone else dislike the fact that if you create a CPT that is really just for a group of pages that it does not inherit the page template attributes dropdown

4:21 PM

@Wyck What?

Q: Permitting Wordpress to accept dates outside of 1902-2038

4:55 PM

Do someone want to destroy his hopes of seeing his code accettepted as core patch?

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I'm using Wordpress 3.9.2, MySQL 5.1.73, & PHP 5.3.27 to put together a history-based site. As is well-documented elsewhere (including many questions on StackExchange & WP forums over the years), due to the limitations of PHP, one cannot have posts with dates outside of the minimum and maximum v...

date

5:13 PM

@G.M. well, you never know. I had a similar idea, but his work looks quite good.

I wonder who gave the only answer an upvote. It is nonsense.

@toscho not me

I neutralized one upvote. :D

To me I would go for a custom meta box to replace core one and use a post meta to store historical dates

post date is used in too many different places, and they are not well documented. rewriting the core is the only sane way.

It depends where you want to use the dates. To be honest publish date is the date when post is published, and I doubt one posts 500 years in past. Historical dates are for me a meta info.

5:21 PM

@G.M. not it

what if I want to republish Marcus Aurelius’ work?

“composer.phar create-project erased my hard drive” https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/1683 Hahahahaahhahahahaa!

Tweeted by philsturgeon on August 21, 2014 at 4:40 PM

$wp_query->query_vars['post_type'] is empty when I am in a date archive for the type post. Fuck you WordPress.

why do I care about genuinely cross-platform PHP code they ask.. :D

@toscho You republish it today. And If you want to schedule the republish in a week? Do you set past date or future one? Setting proper meta data is the way for me. What's the problem? Query? Not, because meta query exists. Display date? Sure not. Requires extra work, but any specific use of WordPress require it.

5:27 PM

automatic date archives, other plugins working date ranges

no, you put it into WordPress today. it was published when it was published

Taking track of the date when you put it into WordPress is not important? I think so. Automatic date archives will not work, custom date archives will.

the take away is that WP didn't give a shit to implement published dates feature with perspective, we have what we have

@G.M. The day I put it into the database is irrelevant. The day the content was written is more important.

Sorry, not agree. People use WordPress to do any kind of things. If I use WordPress for an app with a lot of users, to know who and when do what may be very important. Content date is important too, but the fact it is saved in another place does not compromise anything: if you are using WP to do something WordPress was not designed for you have to expect to write custom code to handle a lot of things.

5:36 PM

The WordPress way. Again.

The way WordPress is used. People use WP to anything: event manager, invoice app, Ecommerce... It's a sane decision? Not to me. But if people are happy with it... let them cry.

7:38 PM

Plugin developers: Introducing plugin icons for the WordPress 4.0 plugin installer http://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/08/21/introducing-plugin-icons-in-the-plugin-installer/ props @tellyworth :)

Tweeted by nacin on August 21, 2014 at 7:12 PM