Paper Theme Now Supports Full Posts on Homepage: mb.amitgawande.com
@amit Looks great. In your original design, it would help to add some affordance to indicate a longer post. The ellipsis (…) are more subtle than one would expect.
@pratik Interesting. I had tried a few options – closest being […Read More]. I felt it was an unnecessary text.
@amit And [Read More] is not localized, (can it be(?)). I think […] is used some places on the net to expand/read more.
@amit This is great, I’ve enabled it for my site 👏️ Quick question, you have a “discuss’ link at the bottom of your posts, is that another plugin? I tried to find it but didn’t turn up anything
@rknightuk That’s @sod’s excellent Conversation on Micro.blog plugin. It’s been an excellent addition to our blogs.
@amit This looks very nice! Already applied to my site. IF I may to ask for a feature request. How hard would it be for paper to play nice wiht “on this day” ? 😁 It is not a huge deal but it’d be nice. Thank you again!!!
@paulopinto Interesting. I will keep that, in mind, for the next upgrades – for now, if you want, you can add this to your custom css. It should get what you want.
.logo {
background-image: url(https://micro.blog/paulopinto/avatar.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: 25px 25px;
background-position-y: 2.2rem;
padding-left: 4rem;
}
@rknightuk That’s the wonderful plug-in Conversation on Micro.blog by @sod. The theme supports it natively. Just install and configure it and you should be good to go.
@Gaby Nice, glad you liked it. Regarding On this day, what do you mean by play nice? Basically come pre-installed or some styling issue? I would glad to support it. Thought I myself have it running.
@amit I am not sure, or don’t remmeber the reason why On This Day does not work with newer themes, maybe @manton can explain it better.
@Gaby @amit I’m confused by this too. On This Day should work with any blog that has an archive page.
@Gaby I had no idea that the plugin is broken. With the way it works, there’s no way to know. So I didn’t. Would be glad to fix if I can. // @manton
@amit @manton @gaby Jonathan recently updated Python so that may be the issue. It works fine on my blog.
@amit I installed the upgraded theme and it’s great - small issue I noticed my post separator is styled differently than on your example blog. I’m just getting a hard line, not the dots.
@bdonnelly I am seeing the separator correctly on your blog - four dots. May be its a cache issue, can you try hard reload or a different browser?
@amit I’m trying opposite. Find a theme which stops Articles short! Does the basic Paper do that then?
@warner Yes, Paper displays the truncated summary by default on the homepage - you can see that on my homepage
@amit Nice: pretty much as good as you can ask for in current M.b without Custom Home Page.
I do think there needs to be more focus on og:image for sharing and Article previewing for it to be future-ready
(related note: you’re Wordle image also doesn’t display well on home-page)
@Gaby @manton I tried to the other day. But i didn’t continue on the path. Am sure somethings changed with newer themes - the response json is empty.
@Gaby An upgrade with the fix should be available now. Let me know if you see any issues.
@amit Hi, just a quick question: what is this symbol after the date on Paper theme: ⌘ ? Can it be removed? Thanks.
@mdalves It’s just to indicate it’s the link to the individual post. I am afraid there is no easy way to remove it. If you are ok to modify a file, I can guide you.