@jimmymansaray Hey you! I'm also a chronic WP theme window shopper! We should compare notes! :D
@nitinkhanna Yes! Honestly, I just kept coming back to Independent Publisher. There's only a few things that I can't figure out on my own. But the rest is just great. I looked at Davis and Hoffman from Anders Noren but that's really it. What about you? I see you're on Independent Publisher as well! 👍🏼
@nitinkhanna @jimmymansaray I've probably selected six different themes since firing up jack.baty.net. I do like Independent Publisher but am now trying a slightly modified Davis. Still considering building one from scratch.
@jack modified Davis? I saw that it as a night mode. What other things have you done to it?
@jimmymansaray Indie is just too beautiful to change! I love how much support the dev has for it. I keep looking at centered, clean, white themes though! :D
My previous was Decode.
What I should look for is a template for my micro/liveblog - liveblog.nitinkhanna.com
It's not WP or micro.blog though, so theming is a pain!
@nitinkhanna Not too many changes so far. I show titles for non standard types that have them. Plus a few typographical tweaks. And the background color (that I still don't like :) ). I basically cloned it as a base for future changes.
@jack it's a beautiful color nonetheless. Very soothing to the eyes! :)
We're never satisfied with themes.
@nitinkhanna Yeah, Raam is really active with its development. I do have a few tweaks I'm still trying out;
Do you know any functions to add to a child theme to enable those?
@jimmymansaray the image permalink should open the image alone in its full glory? Or it should open the post containing the image?
@nitinkhanna Sorry, I meant when looking through the main page of posts; images, standard, links, etc. A photo will show but you have to click the small date to access permalink and see title, photo, and meta. At least with mine I can't just click the image in the posts view to get to that image/post's permalink.
@jimmymansaray I think Independent publisher does this well. When you're on the main page (called the 'loop' by some), you can see a post's title and the featured image and when you click on the featured image, you get to the post. See example here on post titled Indepedent Publisher v1.8. The way to achieve this is using the the_permalink tag on the a-tag which surrounds the image. See example here. Search for the comment - "Only show featured image for Standard post and gallery post formats" and see the if condition right below it. If you have any trouble implementing it, tell me the theme you use and I'll give you a gist to copy-paste. Cheers! :)
@nitinkhanna I see two comments with "only show featured image...". I'm interested in making the single photo (non-featured) of a photo post format the permalink. So that means no post thumbnail right? Using Independent Publisher
@jimmymansaray what you need is the code that wraps - <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?">
Around your photo post image. I'll look at the exact code when I'm not mobile.