k_tinyMCE

WPress post editor is where I spend most of my time.
— remove unwanted blocks … use ScreenOption
— remove Blaze .. https://btv-eng.dreamhosters.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack#/traffic
— remove ‘addContactForm’ .. go to
[yoursite.com]/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack_modules

.. and disable/deactivate ContactForm.

—  TinyMCE pluggin (to rollback to earlier version)

• messes up Ctrl-F … see this solution
• makes the editor text area resizeable, but this is slightly complicated.
• removes “distractionFreeWritingMode” icon… Use ScreenOption. However, there’s a buggy side effect: Editor textarea shows only 13 lines, and shows a small handle for resizing.

Better uncheck “ Enable resizing of tables, rows, and columns by dragging with the mouse”. This unwanted feature let your mouse-drag resize rows/columns, usually by accident.

toolbar icons

1. bgcolor highlighter … Note font color is available even without TinyMCE, once you click on “ToobarToggle” button. Not bgcolor. Better avoid relying on this luxury feature. It has no cheaper alternative.
2. fullScreen .. seldom needed
3. fontFamily .. unneeded
4. specialCharacter , emoticon.. unneeded so far
5. —- doable even without TinyMCE
6. Mark text in yellow (default color) bgcolor.. Without TinyMCE, you can go to source tab, wrap your sentence in <mark></mark>. I think this method is liberating. Note the theme controls how to render, perhaps in a slightly different background color.
7. fontSize .. rarely used, and always with font color. Without TinyMCE, you need to wrap your payload in <font size=…1 to 7></font>. I think this method is liberating.
8. more bullet styles.. seldom needed. Lower-greek etc can be created with simple html.
9. insert table .. seldom really needed
10. — click on “ToolbarToggle”, then click on the last new icon i.e. question mark in a black disk. Alternative, Sh-Alt-h activates this icon.
11. Blockquote .. the  will show simple tricks to apply blockquote.
12. Code<> .. the  will show simple tricks to apply code formatting

The basic slug offers some kind of redirect feature. This feature is important to a non-commercial blogger like me as I often embed a slug URL (of an important blogpost) in various webpages, but I still want the flexibilty to edit the slug.

Sugg: I think a slug should be short yet unique.

Compared to other wpress redirection techniques, I think this slug feature is mature and relatively stable.

Other online resources:

• A Straight-Forward Guide To WordPress Slugs | Elegant Themes Blog

— permalink .. can be based on postId or slug.

permalinks – Removing the redirect after changing a page’s slug – WordPress Development Stack Exchange pointed out:

Also, remember that if WordPress can’t find a permalink, it looks for posts with a matching beginning, e.g. if you had a post with permalink /foobar, then /foo will redirect to it.

— previous slug is saved in DB

For example, this very bpost once had a permalink ” https://btv-open.dreamhosters.com/slug” and this outdated URL would redirect.

— How to Redirect a WordPress Page (with and without plugins) (quadlayers.com) explains

• the Redirection plugin
• edit functions.php using the CodeSnippets plugin
• edit .htaccess using the FileManager plugin

k_soul_search

Background: I attended a WPress course on website construction mostly for commercial usage (not social purpose). Blogging is supposed to be social. Most blogs are published for other people to follow, and has a communication purpose, such as informing, influencing/selling, sharing/expressing opinions …

My site is for expressive, introspective, therapeutic analysis of the self and its relationships with family, peers, money, education system, economy, technology. Content is private and rarely created for anyone but myself. I customize my sites to fit my needs like a glove. This one person is front and center, as the most valuable user and client of this site. I honor this client more than all other clients combined.

In contrast, other wpress players must do everything (that needs to be done) just to engage the audience. It’s a competitive landscape.

• layout, color, font
• contact form
• ^^ These are not dev jobs, more like tweaking. Some people enjoy it. I may need to learn to enjoy it.

Actually, my usage (blogg) is the original, the simplest and best supported usage. I feel lucky.  Those commercial usages require more tweaking.

My usage is a long-term energy sink. How about their usage? I doubt it.

— some analogies to illustrate the contrast. In all of them, I derive more satisfaction/joy from meeting my own needs than from selling stuff to other people.

• essay practice .. most people do that for exam, or publishing. I do it for my private diary
• photography .. most people take photos to be shared, but some take photos to keep for herself or himself.
• singing and instrument practice .. most people practice that for performing. I practice that for self enjoyment
• cinema and sight-seeing .. most people go out for get-together, where the movie is just a “pretext”. These people would not consider solo trip.

—
Q: is this ezlife or zqbx?

personal_UGC archive

1. When I first started with blogg, I felt publication date ought to be immutable.
2. Soon I realized I could and should edit my posts, so this date was supposedly “mutable but authentic”.
3. Over the last few years, I have often needed to pick a previous post and change its ( publication ) date for various important reasons. My purist, idealist self often feels guilty about it.
4. Now I have come up with some justifications for changing the publication dates.

• As author, I have full control over when to publish a post, and what date to show on it. It’s entirely legit to publish a piece today, showing a long-ago publication date. I don’t have a duty to explain why.
• Usually, when I “increase” (i.e. to a later date) a publication date, it is related to content update.
• Sometimes I also “decrease” (vector::push_back) a publication date. Obscure but important reasons. As I said, I don’t have a duty to explain why.

— modification date .. is more authentic though not 100% reliable

— [22] .. I often prefix this annotation on my post titles, as a proxy of the real publication date.

k_tinyMCE

— how-to:

The home page of a plugin > AdvancedView > near the bottom > DevelopmentVersion dropdown > locate your desired version > download the zip file

On 27 Sep I was able to download and install version 5.5.1 of TinyMCE.

— A few priorities

• simple regex .. xp shows that once a while I need it
• show individual search results
• dry-run
• choose which tables
• case sensitivity
• popularity ? does imply reliability, but doesn’t imply the other “priorities”

— choice: BetterSearchReplace .. the default choice, most popular. See https://btv-open.dreamhosters.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=24953&action=edit

— choice: SearchAndReplace .. is the oldest and most reliable

It lists each change explicitly. That is available in a paid upgrade to Better Search Replace but included in the regular Search and Replace plugin here.

One potential problem is timeout, but how likely?

— choice: SearchRegex .. can replace.