It took a little over a week but I finally completed version 1 of my fully custom Micro.blog theme. I already have major changes I want to make to it but I’m going to leave those for after the holidays. I’d like to blame thank @mtt and @SimonWoods for giving me the push I needed to lear... blog.gregmoore.me

@gregmoore Nice, looks good! Congrats!

@gregmoore 🥳 Nicely done!

@gregmoore cat pictures 😻 😻 I needed those.

@gregmoore Nice! Very solid 1.0, congrats! 🎉

@gregmoore Looks fantastic! Any chance that in the new year you’d be willing to write something for @custom about making your own theme?

@gregmoore That looks great!

@shep @odd Thank you very much.

@sod 🙇‍♂️ I owe you many thanks for all the tips you’ve contributed to help.micro.blog.

@annahavron 😸 Glad you like them. (Some would say I have too many cat photos!)

@Miraz Thanks 🙂 I’d be happy to if I could collect my thoughts into something useful. The best decision I made was nailing down all of my layout work before tackling Micro.blog’s particular flavor of Hugo. There’s no real guide on how to do it: Hugo has too much documentation while Micro.blog doesn’t have enough. I just searched and stumbled my way through each problem one-by-one.

@bloftin2 Thanks!

@pdxmph Yeah, I’m hoping to read it too.

@gregmoore Surely they’re joking.

@annahavron @gregmoore There is no such thing as too many cat photos.

And don’t call me Shirley.

@gregmoore That’s exactly why if you could put something up on @custom it would be so useful for others. 😀 No rush, of course. It could be one article, a series, a tutorial, a bunch of tips, a video — whatever!

@Miraz @gregmoore I’d be more than mildly interested in seeing that.

@gregmoore Congratulations! I’m happy for you!

@gregmoore the site looks great! Nice clean lines and I really like the category groupings on the right as way of jumping in.

@gregmoore Wow! Love it. Especially all your pages (Photos, Reading, and Music). I may bug you sometime on some design aspects.

@Miraz @gregmoore I would definitely love to read this. Although I’m sure it’s not above my skill level but I’m saving it for my retirement days to learn.

@gregmoore Well done. If you have a chance, I’d love to read about the stages that you went through.

@Miraz @odd I’ll try to collect some of my learnings into an article. 🙂

@annahavron @petebrown LOL! It’s not like I’m gonna stop.

@gregmoore Excellent. I’ve seen quite a few people chime in that they’d read it. 😀

@mandaris @maique Thanks guys 🙂

@crossingthethreshold @pratik I appreciate it. I’ll try to come up with a way to pay some of my learning forward.

@meandering That’s great to hear because I put the categories up there just for that. Personal site content can be difficult to parse so I want to give people an excuse to poke around and maybe see something they like.

@gregmoore Fantastic job! Really good.

@Mtt Thanks for the inspiration. I 100% stole your idea to add the camera emoji before photo posts.

@gregmoore And I’m sure I stole it from someone else. In fact, let me suggest this.

@Mtt Walks over to the shelf and grabs that exact book.

@gregmoore Nice! Let’s see how far this can go.

@gregmoore you have a cat category, people are going to find something they like 😻

@gregmoore Cool, thanks!

@gregmoore Ha. Picked it for that reason. Amazing (and very different) book by a Pulitzer Prize winner (All the Light We Cannot See).

@gregmoore your theme looks great!

@ericgregorich Thank you 🙂 Your awesome Cards theme was definitely a big inspiration.

@gregmoore I’m happy to receive the blame for such progress! The site looks great; I assume it feels good to get version one out of the door. This has in turn inspired me further when it comes to my own sites so thanks right back at ye 👍

@Miraz Better late than never? I (finally) created a page with my Custom Theme Tips to try and help everyone.

CC: @odd @pratik @crossingthethreshold

@gregmoore Cool! I will try this. Thanks for taking the time to write this up! ✨

@gregmoore Fantastic! Will link to it. 😀

@gregmoore Late to this, but it looks great!

@kimonostereo Thanks man 😁

@gregmoore Thanks. Much appreciated and bookmarked.