Web
26. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
bootScore — the Bootstrap-based WordPress starter theme — can only be designed via CSS, PHP, and JS programming: If you want to fashion your website, you need to program. bootScore integrates Bootstrap technically and leaves the visible details to the programming web designers. And by default, it delivers sometimes blurred featured images. Is it an […]
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24. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
In the case of Fancy Images, we show our reader first a tiny image. And on her request — wants to say: click — also a larger version. For implementing this feature, I initially put the URL to the uploaded image in the href-attribute of the fancy link and in the src attribute of the […]
Humanities Web
23. February 2023 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
I love scientific writing. Last night, I couldn’t hold back anymore. I need footnotes on WordPress that I can easily apply to my posts with a good result! So, I replaced Easy Footnotes with Footnotes Made Easy. Too systematically unattractive was the result of Easy Footnotes for me:
21. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Fancy bitmaps are the one thing, scalable pictures the other. WordPress does not like Scalable Vector Graphics by default: SVGs consist of XML code. If loaded, it can — at least in principle — inject malicious code into the system. Using SVGs in templates, however, is not prevented by WordPress. On HTML level, they can […]
18. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Large, prominently placed images are eye-catchers. WordPress even has a name for it: Featured Image. The only problem is: Starting every post again and again with a ‘featured image’ is tiring. Even if our reader has already decided on an article, we force her to scroll. It would be better to give her directly what […]
17. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
The smaller the screen, the greater the risk that long words destroy the reading image. Without hyphenation, it becomes choppy or fizzy on smartphones. bootScore-based sites use an embedded Responsive Design. So, an automated hyphenation improves readability and supports bootScore to rearrange the text elements:
Deeper nested menus are displayed depending on the size of the device. Stacked submenus on larger screens are more difficult to read: People stumble over what’s underneath. Indenting menu entries is a good way to improve readability:
16. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Actually, I wanted fancy menus with an H‑OVER effect. Exactly. But after I crawled into the topic, I decided against it. Following Adenauer’s aphorism, What do I care about my gossip of yesterday! I banned my idea to enable hover menus for bootScore by external tools. Because the viewpoint of Bootstrap and bootScore is really […]
14. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
In my ‘previous’ WordPlus life, I was rather sloppy with my menus. What does that mean? WordPress knows keywords and categories. But what are entries in a deeper nested menu having their own sub-entries? They can be regarded as categories, too — because of their grouping effect. But they are not what WordPress means by […]
11. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Like Bootstrap, BootScore only knows menus with a depth of 2. Bootstrap because it wants to in principle. BootScore because it follows its base as strictly as possible. Level 0 entries are listed horizontally in the header, and the corresponding level 1 entries are listed vertically below. Thus, the top-level entries group the entries below […]
9. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Maintaining a WordPress-based site often means working with two instances — one for development and one for production. Both have their own domain, a specific URL, used to link one site element to another. Manually or automatically. This implies that a web designer has to replace this URL prefix with the other one in all […]
Compliance Web
7. February 2023 / 12. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
In the European legal area, exploitation rights inherently belong to the author of a work. She does not have to do anything else. In the American legal area, things are different. There, every work falls into the ‘public domain’ by default. Only when the author actively claims her ‘copyright’, the work belongs to her. Thus, […]
5. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
I had set up my old site, fodina.de bilingual. With the help of WP-Globus. As nice as this worked for years, at last WP-Globus got lost. Thoroughly! When I edited the German text, it made the English disappear. And vice versa. Something like that shall not happen to me again. The restoration was complex and […]
4. February 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
A footer is an area for more off-beat references. They are more offside insofar as our readers expect to get access to what they came for — directly after a page is loaded, directly on top of it. At the bottom — where they first have to scroll — they are looking for minor aspects. […]
What is important is in the eye of the beholder. A lawyer would perhaps include the imprint, the image credits, or the data protection concept. And not to forget: the open source compliance artifacts. The reader, on the other hand, would see it differently! She wants content. Entertainment. Real ‘content’. Not this legal gobbledygook.
30. January 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Search engines don’t like gossipy keywording and love well-filled sitemaps. But they detest broken links. So, we should prevent ourselves from destroying the given SEO friendly behavior of bootScore:
29. January 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Having enabled Font-Awesome is a nice feature of bootScore. Somewhat frustrated , I have to add that embedding ‘own’ HTML code into a WordPress/Gutenberg block via ‘Edit as HTML’ occasionally destroys the type and content of the block : If the code is suspect to the Gutenberg editor, it replaces the work already done with […]
SEO encompasses a lot. One means of Search Engine Optimization is the semantic tagging of sections, which became possible with HTML5. In this respect, bootScore and SEO fit well together:
28. January 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
The form of my scope list convinced me to talk about Font Awesome Icons and custom CSS classes in bootScore, first. A pure HTML list is ugly, in my case: downright unreadable. No amount of rewording or restructuring helped. Shortening it was not an option either. It should continue to function as a complete scope […]
25. January 2023 / 7. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
That I would have to give up YAML-CSS had quickly become clear to me at the beginning of the year. What I should replace it with, not. I wanted to stay with WordPress. And to recycle my old content. So, all I had to do was to replace my old theme. Theoretically. Eventually, I ended […]
25. January 2023 / 12. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Recently I wrote about the ‘expiring’ editor Atom. Now I’ve stumbled upon another dead horse in my stable: YAML CSS. That has nothing to do with YAML ain’t Markup Language. It’s a modular CSS framework for truly responsive websites. For years, it served me faithfully, first in Typo3, then on WordPress. And now?
Tools
12. December 2022 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
The Atom page says: “Atom and all repositories under Atom will be archived on December 15, 2022″. The “hackable text editor for the 21st Century”, developed by GitHub — “[…] had not had significant feature development for the past several years” and that GitHub has therefore “[…] decided to retire Atom” in favor for “Microsoft […]
Compliance
11. July 2022 / 8. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
For 6 years, the Bitkom Open Source Guide 2.0 was a tutorial for the appropriate use of open-source software. It was a benchmark for German companies. But it has aged over time, naturally. Good that Bitkom and its ‘Open Source’ working group have taken up the topic again: In June 2022, there was officially released […]
11. July 2022 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | 8 Comments on Frescobaldi on Ubuntu 22.04: with pip or apt
Under Ubuntu 22.04, Frescobaldi starts with an error: The area for displaying the music sheets says that Frescobaldi unexpectedly passes an argument of the type float to a function in qpageview /highlight.py respectively qpageview/shadow.py. Now, you can ‘google’ for the cause — or read the following lines:
