Bob Matyas

I was recently working on a WordPress site where I needed to batch upload a bunch of text-heavy images and then generate posts, descriptions, and tags from those images while also setting the images as featured for each post.

I ran into a frustrating problem getting local video files to play on my Amazon Fire TV Stick.

I was a bit slow at updating the various plugins I maintain for WordPress v7.0 this time around, but over the past few weeks I verified compatibility with WordPress v7.0.x.

I released a new version of my Block AI Crawlers WordPress plugin.

For the New Year, I spent some time cleaning up old accounts that I no longer use.

I ended 2024 with the intention of writing regular professional reflections, which quickly fell apart.

For the past couple of years, I have been tracking my reading history on BookWyrm, a decentralized, federated reading tracker—similar to Mastodon, but for books.

I recently learned that my preferred email provider — Proton — has the ability to send emails via SMTP now.

The WordPress.org Plugin Directory uses Subversion (SVN) for releases.

Over the past few years, I’ve created a handful of very niche WordPress plugins to serve specific needs on sites that I was maintaining.