Programming Tooling
23. April 2023 / 28. April 2023 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 a MIT-licensed preliminary work hosted on GitHub. But its ‘standard outfit’ still must be personalized, ‘pimped’ — by the work […]
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21. April 2023 / 29. April 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 […]
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5. April 2023 / 5. April 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Choosing good fonts is part of the design. With bootScore we can incorporate Google Fonts directly. We are even told how to host them locally, thus bypassing the mention in the privacy policy. Nevertheless, we have to get a little involved with Bootstrap as well:
31. March 2023 / 5. April 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 want to show our reader the one or other sticky […]
30. March 2023 / 30. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Until now, the landing page mylap.php — as a template linked to the WordPress page mylap — also shows only a 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 / 30. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
We need different sidebars: 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’ button in the sidebar that leads to the survey page. In other […]
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, too much is […]
Meanwhile, I have implemented some features of bootScore. And I’ve promptly overloaded my site, as my reader says: She recaps, that I — as far as she has understood — want to flexibly write about several different core topics. This would end up in a listed mishmash, of course! Shall she herself pick out what […]
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 to our readers ‘on the side’. […]
27. March 2023 / 28. March 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 by itself: a list of stripes, one for each article, the respective primary post image in the left half, and in the right half the first lines of the […]
13. March 2023 / 30. May 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 / 29. March 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. Fortunately, it was easy to get a more fancy tag cloud and an improved list of recent posts showing the featured images as thumbnails:
5. March 2023 / 29. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
To 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 […]
4. March 2023 / 9. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
No 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 […]
Compliance Tooling
2. March 2023 / 29. March 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 to do it legally.
Compliance Programming
1. March 2023 / 9. March 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 / 9. March 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, 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 […]
26. February 2023 / 29. March 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. That’s the way how bootScore integrates bootstrap perfectly: it leaves the unfinished look to the programming web designers.
24. February 2023 / 29. March 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 […]
21. February 2023 / 9. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
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 be embedded — as usual — in img tags. That’s […]
18. February 2023 / 9. March 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 […]
Programming
17. February 2023 / 29. March 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. If a bootScore-based site — according to Responsive Design — wants to maintain readability by rearranging the text elements, then it cannot do that without automated hyphenation.
Deeper nested menus are displayed depending on the size of the device. Stacked submenus on larger screens are unfriendly for the reader. People stumble over what’s underneath. So let us soften the stacking a bit.
16. February 2023 / 29. March 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Exactly. After I crawled into the topic, I decided against it. Following Adenauer’s aphorism, What do I care about my gossip of yesterday!
