Here’s a preview of a new Tiny Theme plugin I’m developing. On any post/page, add a magazine style gallery of images (great on desktop). It will require some basic HTML knowledge, but it should work for most users. It isn’t available publicly yet, but hopefully will be soon.
@Mtt 👀👀 Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!! My fist question. This will show every image uploaded to MB or can it be setup so only a specific category of photos will only show? 🎶 Tell me more, tell me more....
@Gaby It is a per-post/per-page thing that will require special input (html) by the user. It will not be automatically applied to anything.
@pratik @jsonbecker Honestly, no clue. I haven’t used it. There are no scripts or anything like that. It’s pure CSS. No light box previews.
@Mtt @pratik I suspect it's somewhat like this-- where I just include some hand CSS if you want to put a div around your images github.com/jsonbecke...
@jsonbecker @pratik Yeah, looks like it has some basic similarity to the “extras” part of the documentation. In fact, as it is now that would be the full integration (with custom styling for Tiny added). There is nothing else added, including shortcodes. It’s pure HTML (user) and CSS (plugin).
@jsonbecker Aren't we using a Hugo shortcode in our posts with your plugin? I have always been wary of using too many shortcodes for portability's sake. Usually, HTML and/or Markdown is my rule now, although Shortcodes make it incredibly convenient in the short term. I still have the template code in my PasteBot list. @Mtt
@pratik I use just plain Markdown a bit for images, since I added a new hook that will translate Markdown. That means it's a little less reliant on the plug in and will expand everywhere Markdown works.
@pratik @jsonbecker The portability—rather, lack thereof—is the main reason why I want to drop shortcodes entirely. They’re convenient yes, but at what cost?
@pratik you can use the markdown syntax for adding images and with glightbox installed it will work just like the shortcode. Uninstall it and it’ll still work, it’ll just be a normal image.
@jsonbecker Wow! That’s awesome. Just realized that it just…works on my blog since I had the plugin installed.
But yup, the gallery one still needs a shortcode, right?
@pratikto get the CSS I think so because Hugo won’t process markdown inside of a div, but will a shortcode. Otherwise it would work.
@pimoore it just assumes content in literal HTML blocks are meant to be literal. I think there may be ways around it but I ran out of patience figuring it out.
@jsonbecker Ah, I gotcha, that makes sense. I think part of my annoyance with shortcodes comes from publishing using them in Drafts (and formerly Ulysses), as they tend to get mangled easily and then the encoded HTML crap ends up in my blog post—and RSS feed—which I have to go back and edit. I recall this working at one point without having to escape the code, but my recent post using shortcodes failed and got mangled again.
What are you using to publish to Micro.blog, and how do you handle shortcodes?
