#wordpress 2020-09-11
2020-09-11 UTC
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[Will_Monroe] [chrisaldrich] you have some nice formatting on your hypothes.is annotations that you mention here. But I can't seem to find the CSS that allowed you to do that. Can you point me in the right direction?
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[chrisaldrich] I'm using an older version of Post Kinds so you can't exactly copy what I've done, but I created a custom post kind called annotation and put some basic code into a subfolder to create a theme for it.
# [chrisaldrich] What is post kinds plugin
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Loqi The Post Kinds Plugin is a WordPress plugin that adds support for responding and interacting with other sites to WordPress https://indieweb.org/Post_Kinds_Plugin
# [chrisaldrich] There's some documentation in the github repo here: https://github.com/dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds#can-i-add-my-own-kinds
# [chrisaldrich] GWG, do you have documentation or an simple example to show how this is done for [Will_Monroe]?
# [chrisaldrich] The code for the set up I keep in my theme (or child theme, in my case) in a subfolder named `kind_views`
# [chrisaldrich] where I've got a file named `kind-annotation.php`
# [chrisaldrich] Here's a gist with my annotation template for the old method: https://gist.github.com/chrisaldrich/2d2923ec54daea270ace8551ff7d2161
# [chrisaldrich] the CSS for it, once it's registered is hiding in my style.css file, which I think you've got.
# [chrisaldrich] I really just need to listen to GWG and update Post Kinds to the master branch so I can document the entire process for everyone.
# [chrisaldrich] Sorry, hadn't checked to see if you had updated it yet....
# [chrisaldrich] I should update to the most current version...
# [Will_Monroe] [chrisaldrich] thank you! I appreciate this very much. I'm digging around to see if I can replicate this on my own site now.
# [Will_Monroe] I'm using your Twenty Fifteen Child Theme from 9/06
# [chrisaldrich] I don't have it immediately available, but GWG may be able to direct you to a gist for a custom post kind that will work for the current version of the plugin.
# [chrisaldrich] the tough part may be putting in an appropriate svg file for it, so that that displays, if you're using that format, but looking through the plugin code should indicate where you'd need to put it.
# [chrisaldrich] I think my current custom types are acquisition, annotation, chicken, follow, and itch. I'll try to bundle them up (except chicken) for inclusion into the plugin if people might want them, but hide them behind the display flag.
# [chrisaldrich] Of course, annotation kinds are really just a slightly fancier version of the quote kind with some display differences if you wanted to go that route.
# [chrisaldrich] And all the quote infrastructure is in the plugin out of the box.
# [Will_Monroe] [chrisaldrich] I placed a `kind_views` folder under `public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen-child-v1` where `twentyfifteen-child-v1` is the theme folder. But it didn't seem to work. Oh well. Seems like there are lots of ways to do this as you describe.
# [Will_Monroe] I probably just need to see a "worked example" during one of the meetups.
# [Will_Monroe] Wait a second. Do I need an `annotation` `post kind` for this to work?
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# [Will_Monroe] Sorry, that was a dumb question that you already addressed earlier.
# [chrisaldrich] essentially you need to "register" the kind and then create a template output for it and then add CSS styling to get it to look the way you want.
# [Will_Monroe] Any chance that registering post kinds and creating template outputs will be something that will come up at a meetup? Or maybe I've missed a video or writeup already?
# [Will_Monroe] @GWG I get the sense that you might be about to make some changes to Post Kinds? If so, maybe I should just wait until you do so before I try to figure this out.
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# [Will_Monroe] @GWG do you have a writeup or tutorial on how to "register" a post kind and the create a template output as Chris described? I'd like to emulate his quote/annotation highlighting.
# [Will_Monroe] Where does that go?
# [Will_Monroe] Which directory, I mean.
# [Will_Monroe] I see. Thank you.
# [Will_Monroe] And I would just create a directory called "kind-register" under `plugins` to place that file?
# [Will_Monroe] Creating a Post Kinds annotation "kind" would be great!
# [Will_Monroe] So, the `kind-register` plugin is active. But I suspect actually adding an annotation plugin will require more.
# [Will_Monroe] Thank you! I clearly need to study up a bit more before I can navigate these changes.
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# [chrisaldrich] POSSE << [https://jetpack.com/2020/09/01/jetpack-grow-subscribers-collect-donations/ Jetpack 8.9 adds Social Previews] which allows one to preview how your posts will appear on Facebook, Twitter, and Google search results before you hit the publish button!
# Loqi ok, I added "[https://jetpack.com/2020/09/01/jetpack-grow-subscribers-collect-donations/ Jetpack 8.9 adds Social Previews] which allows one to preview how your posts will appear on Facebook, Twitter, and Google search results before you hit the publish button!" to the "See Also" section of /POSSE https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=72597&oldid=71838
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# [chrisaldrich] Has anyone used https://wpthemecomponents.com/ before?
# [chrisaldrich] I was wondering about potentially setting up one or more as a relatively quick way of adding some of the common snippets for improving microformats mark up in WordPress? Useful/not useful?
# [chrisaldrich] Or the snippet for automatically accepting (unspamming) webmentions?
# [chrisaldrich] perhaps this could be a way for non-developers to more quickly add updates without needing to write/use or worry so much about some of the code?
# [chrisaldrich] GWG your original post had the feel like it was the first of a series, but I don't remember any follow ups. Was there something in particular that you'd planned on for a follow up?
# [chrisaldrich] Mostly I'm thinking about things that might make bits easier for the upcoming theme session.
# [chrisaldrich] Or making it easier in general.
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# [chrisaldrich] I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like the only "coding" part is adding a line of code in one's functions.php file to enable it, then the individual components can be downloaded and added to a folder for everything to work.
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[asuh] Ah, the video helped explain that part: https://wpthemecomponents.com/about-components/
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