Wordpress on Nico Maas

Add icons to Jetpack Social Menu

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 18:39:10 +0000

I have been looking around the net quite a lot to find a solution on how to add icons to the “social menu” in wordpress:

At first I thought this menu was a feature of the theme I am using, Independent Publisher 2. I only found a Github repo for the version 1 theme - tried all the hacks there - and finally found out that version 2 was bought by WordPress.com and customized. So all the hacks available for version 1 did not even work. Bummer.

Blog Defacement

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:43:32 +0000

While I am now hosting this blog for nearly 9 years - without any incident - problems tend to happen sooner or later. A lot of hassle and problems has been reduced due to the WordPress Auto Update system - so to update WordPress itself, as well as its plugins - and it works great. However, WordPress introduced - and enabled by default - a REST API - which has a great deal of security problems. And without me always checking each installed version - well, I did not know that… The REST API problems should be fixed by now, but - that came a bit too late for my blog. Nonetheless, I would recommend going to Jetpack -> Settings and disabling JSON API - especially if you’re not using it… I learned it the hard way ^^’..

Gravatar considered harmful - disabling it on my blog

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:27:24 +0000

Due to the fact that Gravatar makes users very easily trackable (read r1ch.nets Post “Gravatar considered harmful”) I decided to remove the use of Gravatar from my blog. I did this be removing the feature in the Discussion Settings, as well as using the “Disable User Gravatar” plugin to prevent WordPress to leak your E-Mail address through your Gravatar on my blog.