For our family holiday this year, we head to Wales. Specifically Llandudno – somewhere we’ve not been to before but has been highly recommended by friends.
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WordPress function to check if a minimum set of requirements are met
Combining a couple of older functions, adding in some further automation and generally bringing them to a higher code quality, I’ve now created a new WordPress function for checking minimum requirements for a plugin.
The idea is, you add this to your plugin and, when run, it ensures that certain checks are passed. If not, a message is displayed and the plugin is deactivated.
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How to use blocks to add footnotes in WordPress 6.3
A few years ago I adopted a footnotes plugin, which I forked as Footnotes Made Easy. My plugin makes use of double brackets to indicate text that you wish to appear in a footnote. Settings allows you to change how it appears, including the symbols used.
I’ve not done a huge amount with it and now, with WordPress 6.3 released, there’s much less a reason to even use it. You see, WordPress 6.3 added an easy-to-use footnotes block. It doesn’t have many options, and my plugin does add a lot more features, but for most people it’s more than sufficient.
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New in AI: Not this site
Tumblr has pushed out a change to prevent OpenAI from scraping their content, and I’m duplicating what they’ve done here.
OpenAI’s instructions for blocking GPTBot should discourage OpenAI, including ChatGPT. The solution is, thankfully, simple – just add the following to your site’s
robots.txtfile…User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: /
