20250324-0957. Greetings, chumps! Happy Monday/Lunis! The sun is shining and the temperature is cold! I’ve awoken early, used the toilet (after taking my laxatives last night), and worked on my weblog site again.
I decided to delete the redundant templates called Front Page and Blog Home. I then saved the Readings Setting as “Your latest posts”, which is picked-up by the Index template.
I played-around/had fun designing the Front Page and Blog Home templates and had almost always used the static pages called Homepage and Posts Page, respectively.
I then tweaked the three main theme Blank Canvas templates called Index, Pages and Single Posts. The other two optional templates are (Error) Page 404 and Search Results.
For the Index pages, I decided away from my favorite two-columns design and opted for the one-column design where I placed the following Gutenberg blocks in the following order from top to bottom: Archives Title, Query Loop and my customized “Search Archives” group containing lots of Details blocks for the Search, Button (which is to Follow my WP Reader Feeds), Archives, Calendar, Categories List and Tag Cloud blocks.
I had to test the stability of the Index template’s Query Loop block, which was being VERY bad in the past. Whenever I searched my archives, the results kept displaying the most recent blog entries!
Now I learned to select one of the pre-designed Patterns for Blog Posts and then customize it to my heart’s content. I think my saved Patterns for some of the Query Loop blocks were outdated or something else which I do NOT know exactly, and so that’s probably why the test results didn’t work out.
I modeled the Archives Title block after the Title block for both the Pages and Single Posts templates. The title blocks were borrowed/copied/modeled after the WH DJT 45-47 website. Yesterday, I used the spread of/my fingers to “measure” the height on the WH DJT titles and came up with 6em as the closest font size for my titles block.
I liked how the top and bottom paddings, which are set at Large size for these titles blocks, help to emphasize the webpage and draw attention to the readers, who probably do NOT give a f*ck anyways.
For the header, I used one of the pre-designed Patterns called “Header: Logo and menu, with social right”. This Pattern is the VERY last one on list of pre-designed Patterns under Headers. This is the only Pattern, which features my favorite Announcement row on the top.
For this Announcement row, I had a grand idea to place/stick my Paragraph block, which reads: “The REAL FlynnsPaws”! This made sensed and I really liked the placement – top and centered! This idea was inspired from the WH DJT website in which the words “The WhiteHouse” is placed in the middle of its header. I set the words “The REAL” in italicized and Instrumental Sans fonts and the “FlynnsPaws” in all Capitalized letters and Instrumental Serif fonts. This worked out VERY well.
However, when I was trying to customize the blocks for the next Header row, I had to borrow my Footer template! I was having difficulty stretching out this next row to the Full Width! I was pissed-off! But after copying/pasting my Footer pattern from one of the pre-designed patterns called “Footer: Navigation, Credit, Social”, I was able to set the left row containing my Site Logo and Site Title and for the right row containing the main Navigation menu of all Pages and Down arrow/jump-page link “to the pit”! This header worked out VERY well and is VERY clean/polished!
For the footer, I tweaked the pre-designed pattern to include the left row containing the Paragraph block of the Copyrighted symbol and years and the Site Title block, which I edited back from “Flynn and Paws” (which is just me and NOT two persons/entities) to “FlynnsPaws” proper to avoid confusion if there are more than one authors/bloggers and to associate FlynnsPaws with the copyrighted years of blogging.
It’s 1029 PST. And I just remembered/forgot about my tagline, which used to be and is still/should be “Just Another FlynnsBlogs Site”, which is edited to be more catchy as “Small Minds. Unheard Voices”. Either way, the OLD version has always been straightforward; while the NEW version is made-up.
The footer also includes the right row containing my Social Icons and my customized Up arrow/jump-page link “to the top”. So that’s about all for now.
For the published pages, I set the parent page of KJBV to all 66 KJB audio bible pages. I tested the links and thankfully the painstakingly-customized links work! Thanks, WP! I then set the order of of all my 86 published pages from alphabetical to the following: FRONT-COVER, HOME, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, ABOUT, CONTACT, FEATURES, and Archives. So there are 8 “parent/main/top-level hierarchal” pages.
For the HOME page, which used to be the Static page called “Posts Page” under the Reading Settings and which used to pickup the contents from the template called “Blog Home”, I created/reused OLD pages as clones/duplicates/mirrors in case anybody/anyone queries words such as blog, blog-home, blog-posts, blogs, latest-posts, post, posts, and read-more.
For the FRONT-COVER page, I pretty much wasted my time. I designed the Front Page template with the Cover blocks and Duotone filters. But I figured that some readers/users just don’t really click on anything and might have slow internet/network connections anyways.
With this “logic” of fast-loading time and responsiveness plaguing me for a while, I had to compromise/settle on just having my latest posts displayed as my front (cover) page. Unfortunately, the Jetpack Boost Mobile Score is a measly 88, meaning that with my newly streamlined Header, Footer and Index template, this is NOT acceptable!
So my quest to find the best way to display my stuff continues. End of messaging 1046 PST. Blah! Edited 1058 PST.