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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 […]
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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:
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 […]
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?
