Quevedo

Version 1.5

Special greetings to the WordPress Sevilla community! This plugin was born thanks to the inspiring conversations and support from the local meetup.

Description

Quevedo is a set of tools aimed at those authors, writers or bloggers who want to use WordPress for writing. It removes some unnecessary features for single-author sites and improves SEO, but without complications.

WordPress was born as a small blogging tool. Over the years it has grown and now serves for many more things, but deep down there is still a lot of that little blogging tool. Quevedo helps you focus on what matters: writing.

Features

WordPress Tweaks

Some minor tweaks to make WordPress more appealing to bloggers and single-user site owners:

• Disable post tags: If not used properly, post tags can create a lot of duplicate content in your site. This feature hides them and redirects tag archives to the homepage
• Disable post formats: If you're not using post formats, they only add clutter to the post editor
• Disable author archives: For single-user blogs, author archives are identical to the homepage, which can lead to SEO issues
• Disable date archives: Redirects year, month and day archive pages to the homepage to avoid duplicate or thin content
• Disable attachment pages: WordPress can create a page for each uploaded file, creating thin content. This feature redirects those pages to the file itself, as WordPress does by default on sites created with version 6.4 or later
• Simplify editor blocks: When editing a blog post, the available blocks are reduced to: paragraph, heading, list, image, quote, separator, code, preformatted

Featured image

Options for featured images on your posts:

• Default featured image: Fallback image for posts without a featured image set
• Add featured image to post metadata: Outputs Open Graph and Twitter image meta tags with the post featured image, or with the default featured image if the post has none

Shortcodes

Quevedo includes useful shortcodes for writers:

• [year]: Returns the current year in four-digit format. Perfect for copyright notices
• [lipsum words="200"]: Generates Lorem ipsum placeholder text. The optional "words" attribute controls the length (default: 200)

Requirements

• WordPress 5.9 or higher
• PHP 8.2 or higher
• Tested up to WordPress 7.1

Installation

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/quevedo directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
3. Configure each tool using the corresponding link on the Tools > Quevedo side menu

Development

Coding standards

The code follows the WordPress Coding Standards, configured in phpcs.xml.dist. Install the development tools with Composer and run the checks from the repository root:

composer install
composer lint    # report
composer fix     # fix what can be fixed automatically

Building the release zip

The release zip is built with git archive from the repository root:

git archive --format=zip --prefix=quevedo/ -o quevedo-1.5.zip HEAD

• --prefix puts the files inside a quevedo/ folder, as WordPress expects when uploading a plugin zip. The zip file name includes the version, but the folder inside does not.
• Development files, such as this README, the WordPress.org assets and the project notes, are left out through export-ignore rules in .gitattributes. To leave out a new development file, add it there.
• Only committed files are included: commit your changes before building the zip.

Changelog

1.5

• Fixed lists in the simplified editor: pressing Enter now adds a new list item
• Fixed the Open Graph and Twitter image: the post featured image now takes priority over the default featured image
• Fixed the [lipsum] shortcode with invalid word counts, which now fall back to the default of 200 words
• Fixed "Disable post formats", which only worked in the admin
• Settings can only be saved by users allowed to manage options
• The settings page styles and scripts are now separate files, loaded only on that page
• Improved output escaping on the settings page
• "Disable post tags" now also hides existing tags on the site, in feeds and in the sitemap, and redirects tag archives to the homepage
• "Redirect attachment pages" is now "Disable attachment pages": it redirects attachment pages to the file, using the setting WordPress added in version 6.4
• Author, date and tag archives now redirect to the homepage in a single step
• The default featured image is no longer shown in the editor as if the post had it; it is only used on the site
• Added a "Select image" button for the default featured image
• The settings switches can now be used with the keyboard and screen readers
• Fixed typos in the settings page
• Requires WordPress 5.9 and PHP 8.2
• Tested up to WordPress 7.1
• Translations now come only from translate.wordpress.org, where WordPress downloads them automatically
• Code cleanup to follow the WordPress Coding Standards, with no changes in behavior

1.4

• Compatibility tested with WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.4
• Added disable date archives feature
• Featured image settings reorganized as a collection of options
• Added Open Graph and Twitter image metadata option for posts
• Fixed featured image media uploader on the settings page

1.3

• Compatibility checked with WordPress 6.8

1.2

• Fixed PHP 8.2+ deprecation warnings
• Improved code documentation
• Added proper global variable declarations
• Fixed dynamic property creation warnings
• Added editor simplification: When editing a blog post, the available blocks are reduced to: paragraph, heading, list, image, quote, separator, code, preformatted

1.1

• Initial release

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.

Author

Created by Nilo Velez