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New Version of Block AI Crawlers Plugin
I released a new version of my Block AI Crawlers WordPress plugin. It adds a few new crawlers and updates handling of some others. Here are the changes: 1.5.6 –…
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Deleting Old Accounts
Deleting an account should be a basic feature of any online platform. After spending the New Year cleaning up dozens of old accounts, I was surprised by how many services…
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2025 Yearly Retro
My 2025 retrospective highlighting things I worked on over the past year.
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Track Your Reading with BookWyrm in WordPress
For the past couple of years, I have been tracking my reading history on BookWyrm, a decentralized, federated reading tracker—similar to Mastodon, but for books. In the past, I tracked…
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Configuring Proton SMTP for Reliable WordPress Emails
I recently learned that my preferred email provider — Proton — has the ability to send emails via SMTP now. This is something that other mail providers offer, if I’m…
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Deploying to the WordPress.org Plugin Directory via GitHub Actions
The WordPress.org Plugin Directory uses Subversion (SVN) for releases. While I’ve used SVN in the past, I generally prefer to use GitHub for version control and releases. When deploying to…
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My WordPress Plugins Updated for Version 6.9
Over the past few years, I’ve created a handful of very niche WordPress plugins to serve specific needs on sites that I was maintaining. In the spirit of giving back…
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Using TizenTube for Ad Free YouTube Viewing on Samsung TVs
I don’t watch a lot of YouTube on my television, but whenever I do, I’m always amazed by the number of ads that interrupt even short video clips. In the…
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New Version of Block AI Crawlers Plugin Released
I recently published a new version of my Block AI Crawlers WordPress plugin. It’s built to be an easy way to give site owners the option to block AI bots…
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Controlling Jetpack’s Auto-sharing and Newsletter Emails
I use two features in the Jetpack plugin to help promote this blog: Jetpack Social and the Newsletter. Jetpack Social automatically posts links to my new posts to social media,…