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Pimp Your bootScore
/ | Leave a CommentLinking 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 of a Web Designer? The theme is adapted — so bootScore — by modifying its “[…] .scss, .php, and .js files”. So you can pimp your bootScore easily. Here are my 13 steps from a pure bootScore to my personal ‘homepage’: […]

My Googlized Writing Style
/ | Leave a CommentLast 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 ‘unspoken’ specifications — as proclaimed by YOAST. However, by following these rules, I had also given in to the stylistic superiority of Google and YOAST: […]

Internal Linking — a Reset
/ | Leave a CommentIt’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 superfluous. A good primary content would be enough. No need for a second text behind the actual one. That’s the way, I thought. Moreover, I saw no reason to talk about internal linking. Rarely has Google so embarrassingly proven me wrong: […]

Using JavaScript Compliantly
/ | Leave a CommentTo 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 artifacts with the code — especially the license text. This is the challenge for using JavaScript compliantly — in bootScore and elsewhere: […]

Data Privacy, DSGVO, and Cookies
/ | Leave a CommentOften 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 of Google — she installs some popular WordPress plugins for data privacy and DSGVO and/or cookies — in the hope that all goes well. Or she investigates it in more detail. And in the end, she perhaps gathers rules of thumb, from which at least one well-workable way results. Here are my 3.7 rules of thumb, applied to my own data privacy file: […]

Extra Fonts for Specific Cases
/ | Leave a Commentbootstrap 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 to do things differently: […]

Suitable Web-Fonts
/ | Leave a CommentSelecting 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 get a little involved with Bootstrap as well: […]

Discreet References to Previous Posts
/ | Leave a CommentIn 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 sticky post more, we need a solution for integrated discreet references to previous posts: […]

A Slimmed-Down Landing Page
/ | Leave a CommentUntil 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 a blog is probably always the most recent post. Plus maybe the most recent ‘sticky post’, that is, the one that the author marked last so that it should always be shown at the top: […]