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8. May 2024 / 13. May 2024 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
As a “powerful, free Bootstrap starter theme for WordPress”, bootScore uses the color concept of Bootstrap by marking up its elements accordingly. Consequently, each bootScore instance initially starts with the same outfit. However, it also offers techniques to modify the default design so that a web designer can define and implement her customized colors in […]
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4. October 2023 / 8. October 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Displaying an appropriate cookie dialog is one thing. Giving it a real meaning is another. Because asking permission alone is not enough. We also need to evaluate the responses: We must only store those cookies on our reader’s computers they — or the law — have consented to. A JavaScript function that implements this requirement […]
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15. September 2023 / 13. May 2024 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Without permission, we may not write cookies to the hard disk of our reader. Because it belongs to her, not to us. By accessing our site, she has already implicitly given her consent to store our technically necessary cookies. Because they are technically necessary to read our post. But she must explicitly permit us to […]
27. August 2023 / 16. September 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Last time it wasn’t hard anymore: Within two days my post about my ‘reset’ because of lacking an ‘inner linking’ and about the ‘right way to be crawled and indexed’ had been processed by Google. Like my revised posts, I had designed it in accordance with the recommendations of YOAST that take into account Google’s […]
23. August 2023 / 16. September 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
It’s a while ago, that I wrote about SEO. That should not be a big deal, I thought at that time. In its templates, bootScore thankfully uses semantic HTML tags by default. Thus, it should be sufficient to submit one’s own sitemap to Google & Co. Enriching the pages themselves with additional keywords should be […]
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17. May 2023 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
To speed up deliverability, the developers mostly distribute compressed JavaScript libraries that do not contain any whitespaces, line feeds, and comments. They have minified the libs. As a result, they usually contain only very rudimentary license information — at least not the license text itself. But all FOSS licenses require us to ship some compliance […]
23. April 2023 / 11. May 2024 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Linking Bootstrap and WordPress to get a responsive design is the task of bootScore, a WP-theme bringing along what the web designer actually does not want to program herself. Instead, she can now rely on an MIT-licensed preliminary work hosted on GitHub. But its ‘standard outfit’ still must be personalized, ‘pimped’ — by the work […]
21. April 2023 / 16. September 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Often the website operator is told, that Data protection is complex and has to be organized by experts. But what if she doesn’t have the money for that? If it seems somehow nonsensical to shoot at a sparrow blog with the cannon of a paid team of experts? Then — maybe and with the help […]
19. April 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
bootstrap and bootScore use SCSS variables — as we know. Grouping fonts is done by variables. And we can define two groups. This is sufficient if we want to use only two font families. But if we want to use extra fonts — for example, a special google font in our menus -, we need […]
5. April 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Selecting good fonts is a matter of design, getting suitable web-fonts a matter of knowledge. Not only, if we need some for special cases. With bootScore we can incorporate Google Fonts directly. We are even told how to host them locally, so we can bypass the notice in the privacy policy. Nevertheless, we have to […]
31. March 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
In bootScore Toppings, I’ve already offered two slim landing pages: mylap-sp1rp1 and mylap-sp0rp1. Both show the important things first: The blog topic. And the most recent post. One of them additionally puts the most recent Sticky Post in front of the other. But if we nevertheless want to show our readers the one or other […]
30. March 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Until now, our slimmed-down landing page mylap.php — as a template linked to the WordPress page mylap — still shows the list of all posts. But our favorite reader had ‘prescribed’ us that she wanted to see only the most important on the initial page. And that at a glance. The most important thing in […]
29. March 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
We need sidebars. For this, we have already made room. But we need different sidebars. Presenting the tag cloud makes sense only on the sidebar of the search page. There it can shorten the search in the set of articles. On the other pages, it distracts the reader. Conversely, the other pages need a ‘more’ […]
My pages are too full, my preferred reader says: She constantly gets something to click on another article. She understands why. I wanted to entice her to read on. Like a real news portal. But my content was not broad enough. I only want to talk about a few core topics. So, kill your darlings […]
Meanwhile, I have implemented some features of bootScore. And I’ve promptly overloaded my site, as my preferred reader said. Do I need a specific landing page, I asked her back. She answered, that I — as far as she has understood — want to flexibly write about several different core topics. This would end up […]
A masonry list view is nicer. The original masonry archive from the bs Loop Templates lists the posts in four columns. Four columns with article openings provide a quick, good overview. And yet: without a sidebar, this won’t be a real ‘landing page’. After all, we want to be able to present the latest news […]
27. March 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
After having exhausted the images issue, it’s time to beautify the list of posts. Up to now we only know the form that bootScore’s index.php generates: a list of stripes, one for each article, the respective Featured Image in the left half, and in the right half the first lines of the article. How boring. […]
13. March 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
I have already discussed bootScores blurred images. The problem was easy: In cooperation with WordPress, bootScore embeds images of size ‘medium’ in the post lists. And that even on large screens, where the browsers have to fill much more space than the images could do by themselves. Consequently, the browsers upsize the images that are […]
6. March 2023 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
There were two things I wanted to see changed in the bootScore theme before venturing into the big interventions. I was told that improved topic clouds and post lists would increase readability and usability. Fortunately, it was easy to get a more fancy tag cloud and an improved list of recent posts showing the featured […]
5. March 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
To get less blurred featured images, I suggested enforcing WordPress to automatically generate also square bootScore-specific thumbnails of size 600x600. The bootScore templates index.php and archive.php should request these images via the command get_the_post_thumbnail(null, 'bsTeaser') instead of asking for the medium size. This would make it less likely that a picture would need to be […]
4. March 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
No website without pictures or logos! But integrating a logo correctly is often a tricky task. They have to be visible, well-placed, and leave space for the menu. Additionally, they must not bloat or distort the header area. And the way of integrating them into the templates should also allow us to use the favicons […]
2. March 2023 / 8. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
I love ZEN presentations. For that, you need pictures. Many pictures. Good pictures. Fortunately, it is technically easy to integrate photos from the internet into your own site. What is challenging, however, is getting nice pictures legally.
1. March 2023 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
I don’t buy images. Never. I take my own pictures. Or I use free images released under a Creative Commons License. Or in the ‘public domain’. Some image databases offer their photographs under their own licenses, equivalent to the free licenses, as long as I do not make their images publicly available through another image […]
27. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Avoiding distorted featured images is possible. We have shown that. However, our method is not yet optimal: if we let WordPress when uploading pictures, also crop the medium-sized thumbnails as squares, we give up what is commonly expected. Maybe other plugins need the ‘medium’ thumbnails in the original aspect ratio after all. So it would […]
