New year, new theme
I was working on a revision of the Manual WordPress theme to coincide with our upcoming migration from WordPress to ClassicPress. I couldn't resist and implemented it here on the blog while still on WordPress. (ClassicPress is scheduled to come into play in March.)
One of the new features is this behind-the-scenes "mini-blog" separate from the main blog's front page. For those who follow via RSS feed, nothing changes. The distinction is purely structural and only valid for the pt_BR version — in English, all posts appear on blog’s homepage.
The new version of the dez theme, 4.0, brings other cool new features that I intend to explore thoroughly. (I follow the "pride versioning" approach, which calls for major releases when the person is proud of what they've done.)
Of what is noticeable to readers in dez 4.0, I highlight three things:
- A new post format, link, which I will use to comment on texts by other authors. The inspiration for this is Jim Nielsen's blog notes. I will suspend the holiday break on next Monday (5th) and publish the first of this kind.
- Now, all of the cool links posts appear on the home page. Until yesterday, only the last one published was displayed, and to see the others, you had to access the archive.
- Several minor adjustments to the layout in order to simplify it. For example, the main menu has been vanished in the English version. The margins and spacing between elements are now more consistent, and I have made greater use of dashed borders to separate them visually.
In addition to more granular behind-the-scenes information about the site, which was previously restricted to the newsletter log, I will also replicate the news from the PC Manual here, our public FOSS apps server.
The first of the year, in fact, is the Readeck test, a free and modern FOSS alternative to the late Pocket, Instapaper, ReadWise Reader, and the like — a “read it later” type app. If you are a paying subscriber, send an email requesting your access credentials.