Alex Kirk

Working at Automattic. Follow me via ActivityPub on @[email protected]. Hosted using WordPress, Friends+ActivityPub Plugin.

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

Variation: QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders -1 beers. Orders a hi你好. Orders ';DROP TABLE beer;--

[WordCamp Europe @WCEurope]

From veteran WordPress developers to beginner supporters ready to dive into the world of WordPress-- Contributor Day is a great chance to connect and learn with a variety of teams across the entire WordPress project. #WCEU

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

@AlecMuffett @donncha @simonw Alive and kicking! Thanks for reporting the issues, I've started investigating! Sorry for the delay, I've just been busy with work things (launching Matrix to the WordPress community).

[Matt Mullenweg @photomatt]

As WP continues through the decades, we have to deal with all parts of life, including death. As a community, we now have a memorial place we can remember and honor those who contributed to @WordPress but are no longer part of this world. https://t.co/AvbqhVOSZt

[Trew Knowledge @trewknowledge]

Learn about the challenges of translating #WordPress and how you can get involved. Dive into the world of multilingual possibilities with @JosephaHaden & @akirk and expand your understanding of how language connects us within and beyond the WP platform.

https://t.co/P2TYYXaB2R

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

I just released #WordPress Friends Plugin 2.6 https://t.co/dw4oJziBAA Biggest change: no local user will be created for following someone. Other improvements include a better status view, share posts from your /friends/ and more. For more screenshots see https://t.co/lpJUlfuZ3S

[WordPress @WordPress]

Check out the WordPress Translation Playground here: https://t.co/qi1XHTthzJ #WCEU #WCEUKeynote

[Petya Raykovska @petyeah]

We’ve got Live translations on https://t.co/rioEUgky7s. @akirk demos the feature live at #WCEU contributor day and I’m on the floor ready to sob. After years of hoping & frustrations we finally have a flow for translating #WordPress in context. Thank you Alex, this is huge!

[Ö1-Digital.leben @oe1digitalleben]

Wir - @AnnaMasoner @IrmiWutscher - waren auf der @republica in #berlin und heute gibts ein ganzes @oe1 #matrix - zur Frage ob es noch #bargeld braucht, warum sich #tech Mobilitäts Versprechen um das Auto drehen und wie man in #kuba an Internet kommt #rp23 heute ab 19:05!

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

@IzzetEmreErkan The "Local branch" (https://t.co/4tYWyhYeRL) has not yet made it into a GlotPress release but when it is it will be translatable at https://t.co/29brFbt7rm

[Hammy Havoc @hammyhavoc]

I'm back from inner space. I wrote about adding my personal blog as an entity within the fediverse via ActivityPub. It's pretty neat. https://t.co/66CATPB0Wq

Send me a friend request, fellow geeks, nerds and phreaks!

Big thanks to @aaronpk and @akirk. You're both great.

[Justin Tadlock @justintadlock]

New WordPress Developer Blog post on how to build custom Query Loop variations: https://t.co/KdBa36PBfp

This tutorial takes you step by step through the process of building a grid of book reviews and how to use custom post meta in your variations.

[Chuck Grimmett @cagrimmett]

I like the idea of @akirk's Friends plugin for #WordPress: Part feed reader, part private social network, part indieauth. https://t.co/SIcBc9AFrM

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

@SarahKriesche Womöglich werden eh alle Accounts derer gesperrt, die mit Yes gestimmt haben.

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress There is also a WordPress plugin that can then fix the database collation for you but I’d recommend to first understand if it really is the problem. Then you’d need to back up your database before attempting to change the collation.

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress If you have access to a phpMyAdmin, you could open the database and display the structure of the wp_posts or wp_comments table and compare it with my screenshot

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress You’re right, these are unlikely culprits. There is one more thing about collations which is that columns can have their own collation, independent of the table. When I change the post_content column to latin1 I see that conversion to question marks. Do you have a way to check?

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress Oh well, then the next guess is on a plugin. It also converted my → in the comment to a ?. Interestingly in your post the word räksmörgås (which contains chars like U+00E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE) worked. Could something be doing a conversion to latin1 and back?

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

@bagder @d3w01f @WordPress Database collation, too? resp. something like utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci ?

[Alex Kirk @akirk]

@mkalina @WordPress @allfacebook The fix landed in WordPress 6.1: https://t.co/Eb4t3r6pee. https://t.co/n2xB2vOQeh: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 6.0.3" />