I rarely run beta versions of software, let alone alpha, but that’s what I’m doing right now. Autoblue is a new, free, plugin to add Bluesky connectivity to your WordPress website.
Right now it offers 2 features – automatic posting to Bluesky from your site and integration of Bluesky replies into your site comments.
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We’re a few weeks off 2025, but my targets for next year are simple – to be a better person.
Have you got a Wix website? Congratulations on signing up to a closed platform that really doesn’t want you to take YOUR data anywhere else. The good news is, if you want to take it to something a little more open and welcoming, WordPress does have a way of doing the hard work for you of getting it out of Wix.
There are other workaround available online, but they mainly involved importing via the RSS feed (which only shows limited content now) or manually copying over your page content.
The bad news – this isn’t built-in functionality. The good news – it’s free and relatively painless to do.
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Every year I like to share the contents of my backpack. I travel a lot at WordPress VIP, so it often changes to reflect updated products as well as differences in my own thinking.
So, here I present what I’m carrying around in 2024 (albeit some of these will be dependant on the type of journey I’m making).
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Last week WordPress 6.7 was released. With it came a new default theme, Twenty Twenty Five. I was already using Twenty Twenty Four on this site, so I thought I’d try the new one out. As I write and publish this, if you visit the site now you’ll see the end result!
Just as a caveat, the changes aren’t complete. But the new theme is in place and most of the elements implemented, other than final tweaks that I need to make.
I’ve not deviated the site look from what it was. Apart from some obvious typeface changes, it seems much as it was. What they both have in common – note, whoever does the design – is that the templates come with a lot of vertical space between the blocks. With both I spent quite a lot of my time reducing that space down.
Otherwise all looks good, particularly if you’ve not worked with a front-end block theme.
