General web nerd. Rider of bicycles. Amateur picture taker.

  • Converting to the Core WordPress Footnotes Block

    I had previously used Mark Cheret’s Footnotes plugin to, well, create footnotes in WordPress. WP 6.3 introduced this functionality natively into the block editor, and since then I’ve wanted to convert all my instances to use the new core block but hadn’t got around to it yet. That is, until I ran composer update today…

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  • Quick Script to Migrate from SimpleNotes

    Moving hundreds or thousands of notes from SimpleNotes (to Apple Notes in my case)? This script aught to help clean up a few things for a better structure after importing. Converts tags in *.txt files to #tag format for easier searching. Preserves original modified timestamp. Updates the modified timestamps to a UTC offset (if specified)…

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