Micro.blog has a new theme! Thanks so much to @cdevroe for creating Cypress. Check out his blog post for details.

@manton @cdevroe installed! Looks great. Thanks Colin and Manton.

@manton I'm not sure the new Cypress theme is fully ready, though. Look at my MB to get an idea. @cdevroe

@manton reverted to another theme as Cypress rendering is having issues... @cdevroe

@endonend you're luckier than me!

@numericcitizen If you have the time, please let me know what the issues are either via Github or via email.

@endonend Looking sharp. 👌

@cdevroe email sent!

@endonend I've taken screenshots of your blog and jotted down a bunch of things we can improve on as a result.

Did you happen to import a bunch of content from another platform? I'm seeing a lot of HTML entities that were converted into odd characters.

@numericcitizen It is appreciated. I want to be able to fix these issues quickly.

@cdevroe Nope, no intention import done. But using RSS feeds from my other sites to come on my timeline.

@cdevroe let's continue this conversation through email.

@cdevroe yes, originally from Wordpress a bit back. And thanks for this theme!

@cdevroe Really nice, quick question: is there some way to display the photo grid directly on the first page? It looks exactly the way I want on the photos page but I would like to have this grid directly on the start page (the site only contains photos).

@manton 🎉

@jemostrom I'm working with @manton to make that happen. I'd like to make it optional if possible so that people can have it either way. Stay tuned!

@jemostrom handsome site you have there... I can see a few things that can be improved upon from your site as well. Thanks for using Cypress. Expect updates!

@gr36 Yes, the workflow here is not good for quick iterations. I'm going to improve it. Maybe even a quick "resync from GitHub" feature would help to start with.

@gr36 it was a little cumbersome - but nothing this 40-year old veteran of HTML couldn’t handle. 💪

@cdevroe Thanks. 👍🏻

@gr36 👏

@endonend how did you get the photos page with just the posts on with photos? I assume it’s creating a new page but then what?

@lukemperez yeah it's a page that micro.blog automatically collects for you. Here's Manton's help post on it: help.micro.blog/t/photo-p... Hope that helps!

@endonend Thank you. Something isn't working, but that's my problem. Glad to see it is something more or less built into Micro. Cheers.

@lukemperez weird! Are you able to create a page called Photos (with /photos as URL)? It's been awhile so I can't remember how that feature was rolled out and if we had to do anything.

@endonend I figured it out. I didn't realize all I needed to do was {{checks notes}} read Manton's post and click the clearly visible button for Micro to create the page automatically for me.

@lukemperez glad it was that easy! 😄

@endonend We've pushed a few updates to Cypress that I believe your site could benefit from. But it doesn't appear to be updating. Perhaps you've customized it? cc @manton

@cdevroe yeah I used a custom theme to add in pagination. I can revert to the main theme right now. @manton

@endonend Is pagination not working properly? Or are you doing it differently? Please let me know I'd like to fix that.

@endonend ooooooo look at how fast your Photos grid loads now. ✨🚀

@cdevroe I'm not seeing pagination at all on the default theme. In my custom, I took out the "if .Site.Params.paginate_home " tag on the post-list template. I tried adding to the config.json to trigger the pagination, but that didn't work so went to the brute method. LOL. Also, Photos page is SUPER fast now. Thanks!

@endonend If you dare, you can commit those changes to the repo. 😍 But I'm adding it to my list to look into nonetheless.

@manton @cdevroe I love the new theme! Feels like home.

@hjalm ✨

@cdevroe think I did it! Was my first pull request, so not sure I did it right... looks like it worked though.

@cdevroe I added some styling to the comments section on my blog too. I can commit this if you want as well... sample: www.endonend.org/2021/01/2...

@endonend Awesome! I will take a look at it today. I appreciate the assistance.