Sometimes you don’t want individual categories to be displayed on the blog homepage – in the case of allsky-rodgau.de the “Offtopic” category. WordPress does not offer a direct setting for this, but the behavior can be precisely controlled via functions.php.
TipToi® pen is not recognized on Mac or PC: The most common cause and how to solve it
For Santa Claus, the kids got a new TipToi® book – and suddenly they were disillusioned: Neither the Mac nor the Windows PC recognized the TipToi® pen. No pop-up, no drive, no connection. In many cases, this problem has a surprisingly simple cause: a wrong micro USB cable.
Make strings translatable via Polylang
I use the “Polylang” tool on allsky-rodgau.de to offer the blog in German and English. In addition to the relatively simple creation of translations for blog posts, Polylang also enables the translation of individual text modules in plugins and themes that are not automatically covered by WordPress or theme language files. To do this, strings must be explicitly registered so that they appear in the backend under “String translation” and can be maintained for each language.
Keep Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for subdomain/domain after update of indi‑allsky
After updating indi‑allsky, it often happens that the local self-signed certificate (e.g. allsky.local) is suddenly used again, although a valid Let’s Encrypt certificate was previously set up. I will explain how to do this elsewhere!
The cause is almost always that the update routines change or reset the Apache configuration of the system. This article shows how to recognize the problem, fix it properly and configure the setup so that it will survive future updates.
Display weather data on indi‑allsky photos via OpenWeather API
indi‑allsky can retrieve weather data such as temperature, humidity or cloud cover directly from the OpenWeather API and integrate it into the image caption. This requires a valid API key and the coordinates of the location. The setup is done in the web interface under Sensors, where OpenWeather is selected as the source and the API key is entered. In addition, the longitude and latitude of the camera’s location must be set under “Location”.