#wordpress 2021-08-06

2021-08-06 UTC
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: Thanks for the review
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[tw2113_Slack_] :thumbsup_all:
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: Do you use those features?
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[tw2113_Slack_] i don't think so overall
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: Can I pick your brain?
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[tw2113_Slack_] sure
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[tw2113_Slack_] sorry, not seeing these pings super fast, but I'm paying attention now 😄
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GWG I'm redoing my theme, and everythign in it, so that's CSS in eveyr plugin I use.
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[tw2113_Slack_] with you so far
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GWG The Indieweb plugin has the rel-me icons, which is what you approved the icon and CSS refresh for...
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GWG But it also has the h-card code I use on the front of myself, that also works as a widget
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GWG Wondering how I can improve that
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[tw2113_Slack_] hmm
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GWG The idea of it was that the function can be called in the widget, or on the page(which is what I do)
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GWG You can see my test site, where I'm tweaking things at https://wpdev.gwg.us
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GWG So that h-card is from the Indieweb plugin, just called directly
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[tw2113_Slack_] the github/twitter/microblog/etc line?
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: That's what you just approved. But if you have any ideas about that, or the rest of it
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GWG There's a photo, a name, a location..not my real one because this is a test site
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GWG I need to study some h-cards, I guess
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[tw2113_Slack_] ahh all those parts
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GWG I think the row of rel-me icons likes nicer.
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GWG It now is better on the coloring
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GWG But I didn't want to do too much in the plugin, I might do some tweaks in my theme CSS
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[tw2113_Slack_] I know some of my past plugins I've set things up to basically be a "template function" with arguments
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[tw2113_Slack_] and then also a shortcode with all their attributes that match the arguments for the template tag
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GWG That's how I envisioned the h-card. The widget uses it, but there's a function.
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[tw2113_Slack_] and same thing for widget fields
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[tw2113_Slack_] all just pass args to the original template function
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: We're on the same page
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[tw2113_Slack_] i'll dare say this. Perhaps it'd be a good React/Gutenberg block starting point
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[tw2113_Slack_] get your feet wet in that area
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: I thought I might try Location for that. I do most of my experimental stuff there first.
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[tw2113_Slack_] i know i have https://github.com/tw2113/blogroll-block which basically does the same thing for wp_list_bookmarks from WP core
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[tw2113_Slack_] hmm
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[tw2113_Slack_] dictating css/layout is difficult and a tough line
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GWG Yes.
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[tw2113_Slack_] you can make as best decisions as you can for out of box, and hope for the best across devices
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[tw2113_Slack_] or you can leave the markup to inherit as much as possible and risk bad reviews because "it's ugly by default"
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GWG Did you know that the rel-me fields in the Indieweb plugin are added by default to the REST API author endpoint?
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[tw2113_Slack_] i did not, but good to know
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GWG I added it in. I have plans for it.
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[tw2113_Slack_] ahh dogfooding
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GWG The hard thing about what I'm doing is the styling I'm working with is in all the plugins
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GWG I had to test color improvements in each.
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[tw2113_Slack_] i still think a block version may be the best next step though, especially with the widget screen now being block-ized
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[tw2113_Slack_] and it'll only get better/worse from there
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: What do you know about server side blocks?
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[tw2113_Slack_] i'm not going to claim to be a superstar by any means
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[tw2113_Slack_] but great at googling/trial+error 😄
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[tw2113_Slack_] mostly i think it's extracting saved attributes and settings etc, and parsing it out into the php-side arguments
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GWG If I could write blocks in PHP, it would make my life easier
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[tw2113_Slack_] it would make so many lives easier
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[tw2113_Slack_] especially people who are backend folks, being forced into a React world
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[tw2113_Slack_] or prefer the "simpler" web, like I do, and I assume you do
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GWG [tw2113_Slack_]: I try to compromise where I can.
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