20250424-1842. Behold! I give up! I’ve been wanting to clutter my weblog with everything. But I was getting stressed-out because I’m NOT happy with the layout (again)!
Firstly, I reduced the size of the “titles” from the presidential 6rem to XXL, (because I did NOT like how the longer titles were wrapping-around to the next line), colored the thick 11px borders with presidential maroon and set the background/text colors to presidential dark blue/stone cold! I liked the red, blue and white color palette!
Then I played around with the left sidebar column/header area and tried a combination of blocks: Details of KJV chapters, Categories List, Search and Page List.
I soon realized that the site-editor template view slowed-down drastically! So I had to remove the HUGE Details of KJV chapters, which included 66 hand-crafted Navigation menu items/links!
After removing the tons of bible chapter links, the site-editor template view behaved much better! Then I stuck-back the Categories List block (which includes my 66 KJV audio bible “pages”, my OLD and new blogs and my four OLD sites, the Search block and the Page List blockj, which is down to six main pages!
I had to force myself to “settle” for six main pages because the other static pages are just links to each other and are being handled by the “categories” posts!
Had I NOT discovered the Categories List block and its versatility of “forcing” my categories to assume the function of my hand-crafted static pages, I would NOT have stream-lined my blog further!
Now I should be happy again but maybe temporarily. I had a difficult but fun time tweaking the templates. I had created separate templates for Categories Archives and Tags Archives, but I soon realized that the Index template, along with the Archives Title block, picked up the functions of the the categories, tags, dates, and whatever else!
But I had to “settle” on this one-for-all template and had NO choice but to set the Query Loop block to display the Excerpt block, which worked out VERY well. The Excerpt block functions almost like a Hero Content.
Unfortunately, I wanted to view an entire bible page after the selection of a Category. But because I didn’t want my blog post exposed in its entirety due to the set-up of the Index template, I had to set the Index template to display only excerpt, which unfortunately forces me to clicki the title block in order to view the entire bible page! I may have to replace the Excerpt block with the Content block!
So now my front home page displays the boring latest normal traditional posts, which is being driven by the Index template, which assumes the role as All Archives template. So now I’m down to five templates. Three are default: Index, Page and Single Post. Two are Error Page 404 and Search Results.
I think my site will be more behaved and probably faster this way.
I just regenerated the Critical CSS and now my Jetpack Boost scores are 94 and 100 for mobile and desktop, respectively.
That’s all for now. End transmission 1922 PST. Edited 1929 PST.
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