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  • I was on: This Week in WordPress #235

    For the very last episode of Nathan’s WP Builds’ This Week in WordPress podcast, I was allowed back on. Always a good sign, right? Check it out! We discussed a lot.

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  • My hack to publish more on my WordPress site

    Just like many of you out there, I found myself publishing less and less over the last couple of years on my WordPress site. Not because I had nothing to share, but because I set the bar too high. Failing before I started, so to say. This is how I fixed it: I added an […]

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  • AutoPost to Mastodon from WordPress

    If you’re looking for an easy way to autopost your content from your WordPress site to your Mastodon account, there is a solution. In fact, there are multiple solutions, but I’m going to highlight the one I ended up using: It’s simple enough, but offers a few nice features. My favorites are:

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  • How I use the Block Editor in WordPress

    Since I’ve left page builders behind me, I’m only using WordPress’ Block Editor of late. These are the things I do in terms of settings in every single site to make it work best for me: I know there’s plenty of Keyboard Shortcuts as well, but I’ve not found myself wanting to use them. I’m […]

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  • Kinsta Kingpin of the month

    It’s in Dutch, but don’t let that stop you to check it out. I’ve been featured on Kinsta NL’s site as one of their kingpin’s of the Dutch WordPress Community. Quite the honor. Go check it out in Dutch, or Google Translated to English.

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  • WordPress & AI

    This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for quite a while now. WordPress, your favorite CMS tool and Artificial Intelligence, or AI for short. It is by far the most impressive new tool we have available on the web now in my opinion. What you can do with AI nowadays is mindblowing. Where […]

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  • How To Use Mastodon With Cloudflare R2

    Since Mastodon is compatible with Amazon S3, it automatically is also compatible with Cloudflare R2. Why? Because R2 uses the same API endpoints. So, what works with Amazon S3 works with Clouflare R2 as well. Sounds pretty straight forward, in installing my Mastodon instance with Cloudflare R2 storage, I ran into a few small niggles […]

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  • How To Use Mastodon CLI

    I just finished setting up my Mastodon instance and one of the first things I wanted to get my hands on what the Mastodon CLI. I mean, why not use a simple command line interface when you can, right? Turns out, it’s a little less straight-forward compared to WordPress’ WP CLI. In the spirit of […]

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