Introduction When I first started this blog back in 2008 I hosted it myself using an Arch Linux instance with Linode. For the blogging platform I used WordPress MU because it was, and still is, one of the most popular blogging platforms. At that time the MU version was how multiple domains (subdomains) were supported on a single installation. Later it was merged into standard WordPress. It was easy to use and Administer....
Introduction Recently WordPress.com (and WordPress in general) has started pushing the new Gutenberg editor. It uses a block based model instead of a traditional document centric one. This I don’t like but I also don’t mind. It’s a different way of composing and I can see the benefit. However, Gutenberg is not ready if you post source code and I do this a lot. Posting source code used to be done using the [code] shortcode....
Introduction If it’s not obvious I use WordPress for my (this) blog. It is a Multi-Site setup so I can use the same installation for other blogs (wife) and sites (personal/professional) I host. I also use the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin to assign specific domains to certain sites that are separate from the nachtimwald blogs. For the longest time I’ve used a self signed SSL certificate to protect logins. The cert wasn’t specifically tied to a particular domain and has been expired for years....
It’s no secret that I’m using Wordpress MU for this website. It makes it very easy to keep the main site as well as my and Tati’s blogs updated. Recently I’ve been wanting to continue properly securing the blogs and added HTTPS support as well as Yubikey required logins. Once that was in place my next goal was to get OpenID integrated with the sites again. This way the blogs can be used as our OpenID identify....