#wordpress 2017-11-29

2017-11-29 UTC
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[miklb] finally broke through the mental block that had been holding me back on my switch. Hope to make quick progress now.
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GWG [miklb]: Switch?
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[miklb] well, what I outlined in my blog post.
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GWG The site split?
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[miklb] yes
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[miklb] I was struggling with how I wanted to display the h-card widget. I’m writing the theme to utilize the existing plugin architecture, eventually adding customizer support.
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[miklb] not architecture, more like IW plugin ecosystem
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GWG How do you like the Widget?
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[miklb] pretty much spot on. Not seeing anything I’d change. Like I said, I may need to add a class here or there, but not sure yet. Will let you know soon.
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GWG I wanted it to be easy to style.
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[miklb] I think with the rel-me widget being separate, it’s going to make it even easier.
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GWG That is also intentional.
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[mrkrndvs] Is it plausible that my issues with webmentions stemmed from my failure to markup the HTML?
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jeremycherfas Have you looked at a post with one of the tools, like unmung.com or https://pin13.net/mf2/ ?
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jeremycherfas I have not been following the "issues" in any detail, so not sure what I would be looking for.
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[mrkrndvs] Thanks
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GWG Morning
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Loqi morning!
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jeremycherfas Hello. Trying to style the sidebar in Independent Publisher, and I cannot quite wrap my head around where it gets the widgets from. The `sidebar.php` file shows Search, Archives and Meta, but on my actual site I am showing a Patreon widget and two Text widgets. So, wondering how I can style the widget containers.
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[miklb] I would just view source and see what ids/classes those widgets are getting. Then backtrack to grep plugins/themes to see where that is referenced.
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jeremycherfas I did that to discover that it was all in sidebar.php, but I'm not seeing it pull in the widgets I actually use.
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[miklb] ah, sorry. search, archives and meta most likely are defaults until the user inserts their own widgets in the admin.
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[miklb] Appearance -> Widgets
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jeremycherfas OK. I need to just get in and fiddle.
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[miklb] Are you using a child theme already or the main theme files?
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[miklb] I would think you could target those classes in the stylesheet without having to edit any php
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jeremycherfas Yes I do use a child theme. But looking at the source, the widgets are presented as <aside> without divs around them.
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jeremycherfas I want to try and use flexboxes for them
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[miklb] link?
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jeremycherfas Https://jeremycherfas.net
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[miklb] which widgets are you referring to?
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jeremycherfas You have to go to a single post. I use single column display, and there are three widgets below the post.
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jeremycherfas They're narrow enough that I could flex them across a row in a larger browser
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[miklb] I’m only seeing webmentions? https://cdn.miklb.com/Time_measurement_time_management__Jeremy_Cherfas_2017-11-29_13-02-57.png
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jeremycherfas My mistake. I gave you the wrong site. Ooops.
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jeremycherfas Https://eatthispodcast.com
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jeremycherfas Srry about that.
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[miklb] ah. you *should* be able to target #secondary aside for your flex items and use #secondary as the container. Untested
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jeremycherfas Yup.
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[miklb] did that work?
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[jeremycherfas] Not had time yet.
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