(franken)log - Changelog

This is a MINOR release that focuses on the following items:

major styles clean-up: in preparation for final release
style variable adjustment: creation of a variable template files for easy updating by end user
directory clean-up: organizing the file system and contents
default content: wrote and included the default pages and posts, as well as site details, for the ver 1.0 release

This is a MAJOR release that focuses on the following items:

/login, /setup, /admin and /pages: focused on building out of all of the settings panes to provide the end user more options to control the display and functionality through small customizations where appropriate:
- accounted for global constant toggles in template files
- reduced required fields for the setup.php process to: url, username, email, and password. All other constants are preset and can be changed after the initial setup.
- added styles.php to allow for end users to easily add their own css.
  - in the final release a commented out list of all variables use for the site’s design will be pre-populated in this file to allow for even easier updating by the end user
- added a Masonry layout to /admin for better display on larger screens
design adds:
- simple image logo swap for default logos
  - made header logo visibility optional
- added a comment option to solicit comments via email rather than the web form
- added the option for posts to be toggled between ascending and descending order
additional features:
- added simple smooth scrolling for navigating with anchor links
- choice of which RSS feed is discoverable, entries or daily
- end user can define how many entries and days show up in the RSS feed

This is a MINOR release that focuses on the following items:

dailyfeed.php &P rss.php: fixed a major issue where scripts were still trying to access old deleted, ‘ghost’ files.
/admin: moved any page related creation/deletion items into the /admin directory to clean things up
styles: minor updates, including final placement of comment and permalink icons
/pages: accounted for issue with not being able to create new pages if the /pages directory is empty
/about: reinstated the default placement/use/functionality of the /about page and built a toggle for it’s visibility/use into the /admin panel
rss.xsl: added an initial feed stylesheet based on https://colinwalker.blog/feed.xsl to have custom styles applied at a later date.

This is a MINOR release that focuses on the following items:

feature adds:
- modified all Content Filters to use standard HTML tags (where possible) and to include CLASSES so they can be styles in style.css
  - adjusted mark to be highlighting,
  - highlighting to be citation
  - removed the responsive video wrapper code from inline to style.css
  - starting to use some custom classes for my use cases (
    to clear floats etc.)
- added a permalink option for each post: # or h:mm
- added discoverable RSS feed choice/selection in settings
- setting toggles for: pagination, comments, and permalinks
- timezone selection: now can choose from ALL timezones
- added more date display format options
styles:
- adjusted all of the .i## classes and floats to allow for greater flexibility and to reflect how my brain uses them
- inline placement of permalink indicator for all posts in rss-daily.xml
- footnote formatting fixed
- adjusted positioning to help edit/post div to display better
code reduction:
- eliminated duplicate code, or completely unnecessary code, where possible
- pulled shared comment form code into a single file to reference
minor fixes:
- allow for spaces in page names

‌Known issues that are still present and being investigated include:

trying to unwrap <img> tags from <p> tags— bad form! and instead replace with structured <figure><figcaption> tags. Have it working but it’s not 100%. See https://trello.com/c/9a2k9aMg

This is a MAJOR release that focuses on the following items:

Create independent .php files for each of: header, footer and sidebar;
- so that they can be used by all other files for the purposes of reducing duplicate code, consistency in html/css, and to make updates streamlined.
Initial styles update; remove as many inline styles as possible, and rewriting styles at a base level rather than ID/CLASS level to be easier to maintain
Maintain core functionality; required the modification of some JS & HTML, and in some cases the rewrite or correction of smaller sections of existing code
Existing bug fix integration: rolled over any bug fixes & enhancements previously made to http://log.kvl.me
IMG to SVG transition: replaced all images with svgs to make stylings and adjustments easier while helping to improve visual quality

Known issues that are still present and being investigated include:

Bigfoot footnotes: positioning / width is acting up. Temporary fix in place. Needs attention. See: Fix footnotes

Turning point: Dispatches - 2023-02-10
Spun up an initial instance of hyblog: The 'hyblog' hybrid blogging system as a first step in attempting a refactoring of the core files.
- see: (franken)log - 2023-02-10

Rewrote a significant amount of the core CSS to make it my own
- see: Dispatches - 2023-02-08
replaced the
Toyed with the idea that starting from scratch, with the styling, might be easier
- see: Dispatches - 2023-02-09