{"id":3181,"date":"2017-07-29T08:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T12:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2017-07-29T08:06:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T12:06:19","slug":"i-wrote-a-thing-paragraph-a-simple-plugin-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3181","title":{"rendered":"i wrote a thing &#8211; paragraph, a simple plugin for wordpress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with becoming more active on <a href=\"http:\/\/mammut.gq\">Mastodon<\/a>, \u00a0I&#8217;ve been thinking more about concision recently.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big selling points for Mastodon is that the character limit per post is 500 instead of Twitter&#8217;s 140.<\/p>\n<p>And I was thinking, &#8220;what if there was a way to force you to write better by writing less \/ more compactly \/ more concisely?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So after a couple weeks, I sat down and wrote an incredibly simple {{WordPress}} <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/stuff\/wordpress-plugins\">plugin<\/a>. Introducing <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/plugin.paragraph.cf\">Paragraph<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/plugin.paragraph.cf\">Paragraph<\/a><\/strong><\/em> removes all formatting of a post or page, effectively turning it into a wall of text.<\/p>\n<p>How does this help you?<\/p>\n<p>If you see your writing as an uninterrupted\u00a0wall of text &#8211; or a &#8220;<em>paragraph<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; you may notice that what you&#8217;re trying to say is getting lost in the noise.<\/p>\n<p>It could also help force you to write more\u00a0<em>often<\/em> but\u00a0<em>shorter<\/em> each time.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe you&#8217;ll find it completely useless: and that&#8217;s OK, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with becoming more active on Mastodon, \u00a0I&#8217;ve been thinking more about concision recently. One of the big selling points for Mastodon is that the character limit per post is 500 instead of Twitter&#8217;s 140. And I was thinking, &#8220;what if there was a way to force you to write better by writing less \/ &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3181\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">i wrote a thing &#8211; paragraph, a simple plugin for wordpress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,31,32,41],"tags":[144,333,861],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal","category-plugin","category-technical","tag-blogging","tag-focus","tag-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}