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bootScore Without Blurred ‘Feature Images’
/ | Leave a CommentI 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 too small — and blur them. Or, put another way: bootScore offers an excellent ‘Responsive Design’ when it comes to the texts. When it comes to the images, not (yet). But there are ways out, now an even better one than the last time. […]

bootScore and the Blurred ‘Feature images’ III
/ | Leave a CommentTo avoid the trap of blurred images, I suggested letting WordPress 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 upsized. […]

A Logo Please! And the Favicons too.
/ | Leave a CommentNo website without a logo! Integrating logos 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 for the browser tabs etc. This is where the bootScore developers took a lot of the work out of our hands! Once our logos roughly fit the intended dimensions, we essentially need to follow the bootScore instructions. […]

An image reference? Really?
/ | Leave a CommentI 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 database. I accept that as well. And as open-source licenses do, too, some ‘picture’ licenses impose certain duties on me. […]

bootScore and the Blurred Featured Images II
/ | Leave a CommentAvoiding distorted featured images is possible. We have shown that. However, our method is not yet optimal: if we let WordPress when uploading, 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 be better if we left the common thumbnail formats untouched. […]

bootScore and the Blurred Featured Images I
/ | Leave a CommentbootScore — 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. That’s the way how bootScore integrates bootstrap perfectly: it leaves the unfinished look to the programming web designers. […]

Making Fancy Images Faster!
/ | Leave a CommentIn 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 img
tag. That slows down your site. […]