Last tended on 17 October, 2022 (first created 23 October, 2018)

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A summary overview of changes I made to this site, to make it more fully a indieweb hub / my core online presence. The set-up of my WordPress installation also has been described.

Theme related tweaks

  • Created child theme of Sempress, to be able to change appearance and functions
  • Renamed comments to reactions (as they contain likes, reposts, mentions etc.)
    in the entry-footer template and the comments template
  • Removed h-card microformats, and put in a generic link to my about page for the author in the Sempress function sempress_posted_on. Without a link to the author mentions show up as anonymous elsewhere.
  • Removed the sharing buttons I used (although they were GDPR compliant using the Sharriff plugin, but they got in the way a lot I felt.
  • Added a few menu options for various aspects of my postings (books, check-ins, languages)
  • Introduced several categories to deal with different content streams: Dutch, German for non-English postings, Day to Day for things not on the home page, Plazes for check-ins, Books for ehh books, RSS-Only for unlisted postings, and Micromessage for tweets I send from the blog. This allows me to vary how I display these different types of things (or not)
  • Displaying last edited and created dates to (wiki)pages
  • Added a widget with projects I support
  • Added to the single post template a section that mentions and links the number of Hypothes.is annotations for that post, where they exist.

Functionality related tweaks

Other tweaks

  • Set up 2 additional WordPress instances for testing purposes (Proto and Meso)

3 reactions on “Site Alterations

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  1. Bookmarked Identifying Post Kinds in WordPress RSS Feeds (by Dan Q)
    This is something I might add to my RSS feed too. Because, just like in this posting, I always post my own remarks above the thing I am bookmarking, liking or replying to, it is sometimes confusing to readers what I am referring to in those first sentences of a post.
    I do wonder how it looks in my case though, as I usually don’t add titles to bookmarks, likes and replies, and this little snippet of code adds the post type to that non-existent title. Main question is would it indeed help to reduce confusement? Added to the list of site-tweaks to do.

    ….But for people who subscribe (either directly or indirectly) to everything I post, I imagine it must be a little frustrating to sometimes be unable to identify the type of a post before clicking-through. So I’ve added the following code….
    Dan Q

  2. Peter asked me if it is possible to change my RSS feed for my comments. Right now it contains any reaction, which come in the form of webmentions, likes, reposts, as well as actual replies and comments. Essentially it is currently not a comment feed, but a reaction feed. As part of my site tweaks I will see if I can turn it into a real comment feed (that includes webmentions that are replies), and how to change the way some things are displayed (I had that but it got overwritten by plugin updates).
    For now I have renamed the comment feed, so new subscribers have the right expectations.

  3. This is the frontpage of my emerging wiki-like collection of semi-permanent content. Where blogposts form a ‘river’ of items, for reference it is useful to have a range of more static ‘pools’ of content. Both to provide additional context and background to blogposts, as well as a useful documentation in itself. Documentation of ongoing work, reading, research, or experiments. (April 2018).
    Topics

    Networked Agency
    Ethics by Design
    Indieweb
    Information strategies and PKM
    Site tweaks
    Linqurator bookmarking tool
    Bringing Slides home / self-hosting my presentation slides
    Federated bookshelves

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