20230312-2247. After a busy week, I’ve been tweaking my weblog site. And tonight, I feel like I have done enough tweaking and ran outta ideas. I’m probably finished tweaking my weblog site, especially the mysteriously-generated FRONT-COVER page, which is modeled after the WordPress blog site!
The Details block was VERY useful for my project! I have eleven Details block using my favorite WordPress widgets for my FRONT-COVER page. Here are the eleven Details blocks of my favorite WordPress widgets:
- The Blog Posts block shows only the most recent/latest post. This is the only block that could enter a “Byline” text, which I labeled as “FEATURED”. Actually, all my posts are “FEATURED”. There is really only one “page” called “FEATURES”. But there is really NO “Featured post”, just to clarify. I set the Details block to “Open by default”.
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The Page List block is straightforward. I used a Row to include a Search block. I set this Group as Sticky Position and the Details block to “Opne by default”. This block acts like a “border/separator/spacer”.
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The Query Loop block displays nine items in three columns. I set the Details block to “Open by default”.
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The Latest Posts blocks is straightforward. I set the Details block NOT to “Open by default”. This block acts like a “border/separator/spacer”.
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The Top Posts & Pages block is straightforward. This block only allows ten items to be displayed. I set this block to display the maximum-allowed items of ten. I set the Details block to “Open by default”.
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The Latest Comments block is straightforward. This block only allows 100 items to be displayed. I set this block to display the maximum-allowed items of one-hundred. I set the Details block NOT to “Open by default”.
7-9. The Archives, Categories List and Tag Cloud blocks all serve as “All Archives”. I did NOT use the Details block for both the Archives and Categories List block. I set the Details block for the Tag Cloud block NOT to “Open by default”.
- The About Flynn section includes only the Avatar block and a paragraph block. I set the Details block NOT to “Open by default”.
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The Blog Stats block displays one for Views, which I renamed as Hits. (Y’all know, the word “hits” as in targets by mobsters. Never mind.) The one is for Visitors. I do NOT intend to gain with views or visitors to my weblog of mostly rants. I just like to rant. That’s all.
For the header, I had difficulty trying to “stretch-out” the Row to “Full-Width”. I used one of the pre-designed Patterns and could NOT understand why there are so many “groups”. All I had to do was to remove the “extra” sub-groups and retain only one top-level group! Voila!
Then I set the Site Logo, Site Name and Navigation menu in one row. The paragraph block has a “Down-Arrow” link to jump “to-the-pit” below.
For the footer, I modified the pre-designed Footer with columns pattern to include two more pieces: the modified Footer Newsletter row for my follow my “read and feed – now” message above and the row containing my site’s Tagline and my Credits below.
This time, I did NOT include the Credits to the theme or the host. Maybe I should put-back the Credits to the theme and the host. But for now, I like how my Footer handles the details. I just do NOT see how to “squeeze” the extra two details without ruining my hardwork!
Besides the top and bottom pieces of the footer, the footer displays four columns of links: Blogroll, Social Media, Features and Legal Stuff. I liked how the footer WordPress blog site squished the four columns of links into nice and tidy “stacked” Headers with its down-arrow.
But because the switch for the Details block is limited to either Open or Close, I had NO choice but to “substitute” or use the alternate “Navigation” menu block to achieve the similar responsiveness of displaying at least the Headers to each of the four columns and then the “collapsed” overlay for the “links”.
That’s all for now. End of message 2323 PST.
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