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Published Monday, 18 February 2019 by Piper Haywood

private v. public

I don’t think I’ve got the public / private balance quite right… I’ve started using private notes a little more heavily, which feels right for certain types of things (personal photos, health, sensitive memories).

Next step will be to add a login for friends / family.

Published Wednesday, 16 January 2019 by Piper Haywood

A lick of paint

New year, new lick of paint. See previous version of this site in the internet archive. It isn’t perfect, but I’m happy with where it’s going. The colour remains an ongoing experiment. The years archive on the Browse page is probably the site’s most vibrant manifestation at the moment.

“Share What You Know”

Just deployed a new WordPress theme for artist Marysia Lewandowska, designed by Luke Gould. She has an excellent, simple email signature: Share What You Know

marysialewandowska.com

Published Wednesday, 25 March 2015 by Piper Haywood

WordPress security resources

Introduction to WordPress front end security: Escaping the things, a CSS-Tricks article
WordPress front end security: CSRF and nonces, a CSS-Tricks article
Step-by-step WordPress security guide from WP Beginner
Wordfence, a security-focused WordPress plugin
“Is shared hosting secure?” on Quora
Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open SSL Certificate Authority
haveibeenpwned.com; check your email / password against existing data dumps
1Password, a cross-platform password manager
PHP version calendar, don’t use an end-of-life release!

Links to a few of the security resources I find useful, some WordPress-specific and some more general.

A note about that “step-by-step” guide: it’s pretty decent, but IMO Wordfence is a better security plugin to go with. Sucuri is maybe more user-friendly, but Wordfence comes with more out-of-the-box (incl. two factor authentication and login limiting) and the settings seem more granular. Doesn’t hurt to try both though to see what’s the best fit.

Last edited 22 June 2019

Published Wednesday, 18 March 2015 by Piper Haywood

Moved blog to WordPress

I’ve moved my blog from Tumblr to WordPress, wanted to have more control over how my images display, how I group/categorise things, etc.

Published Friday, 5 December 2014 by Piper Haywood

WordPress function for images with ‘srcset’ attribute

Wrote a function returning an image element with srcset and sizes attributes. See this Gist for the function and this Gist for an example of the function in use (would need to be within the WP loop).

Wanted to give a front-end dev like Sam the ability to define the important bits, including the default image size for the src attribute, the media queries for the sizes attribute, and classes for the img element if necessary.

Edit 23 Jan 2019
This isn’t necessary anymore, responsive images have been part of WP core since v4.4. They’re implemented on wp_content automatically via a filter. Use their related functions if you need to do something custom. Responsive images are behaving a little erratically on my site though, so will have to take a look at why that might be happening.