site-profile Blog profile "Striped" (in development)

[BitPoet]

I've played around a bit with setting up a blog in PW using @kongondo's blog module and, since I'm anything but not a designer, incorporated the free "Striped" template from HTML5UP.

The result is Striped Travel Blog Template (Responsive).

Update: link now points to the official module repository.

The layout is classical (some might say "very nineties" ) but I do like sidebars on the left and content starting close to the top. Features are:

• You can the sort order for lists that are sorted by date to ascending or descending. This is the "killer feature" I'm missing everywhere else, and as an avid reader of hiking blogs (mostly long distance, so long series of blog entries) I always hate when "next" buttons take me backwards (in time) and lists have to be read top down.
• Post lists are paginated
• Since it uses the blog module, comments and email notifications for them are a given
• Contact form using @justb3a's Simple Contact Form module
• Auto-generated sitemap.xml using @Pete's XML Sitemap module
• The usual stuff like recent comments, recent posts, recent tweets
• Calendar for the current month with links to dates with pages
• 3-column home layout with posts, configurable number of posts shown there
• "Sticky" option for posts to glue them to home
• RSS feed
• Already added all templates with translatable strings to site translation files

Todos:

• Add post overview by year and month
• Allow paging through the calendar widget by month
• I'm a bit of two minds whether to show the full posts in lists or just summaries and still have to decide on that

As written in the title, it is still in development, and I'm not completely happy with the lack of integration of my additional site-wide settings with the blog module's settings widget.

I just thought I'd share it. Of course, I'd be happy about any feedback.
 

Screenshots:

Spoiler

 

Full width:

 

Medium (smaller screens):

 

Small (tablets / large smartphones):

 

Mobile:

 

 

Edited March 16, 2018 by BitPoet
Added link to official module repository

[rafaoski]

Thanks to you and ( @kongondo' , @Pete , @justb3a )  for a great blog profile which is a good alternative to wordpress ...
I noticed a very small error in ready.php, the translation function lacks ...

Error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function _() in /srv/http/proc-blog/site/ready.php:12

"nextItemLabel"        =>    _("Next Page >"),
"previousItemLabel"    =>    _("< Previous Page"),

"nextItemLabel"            =>    _("Next Page >"),

"previousItemLabel"     =>    _("< Previous Page"),

Just add double underlining to translations __()

Yeah, thanks a great profile for once.

[BitPoet]

32 minutes ago, rafaoski said:

Just add double underlining to translations __()

Thanks for pointing that out. I only changed this after I removed all the test posts that triggered the pager

I have updated the repo.

[BitPoet]

I have just set up a small preview with a few "real life" pages here.

[kongondo]

On 14/03/2018 at 4:29 PM, BitPoet said:

I've played around a bit with setting up a blog in PW using @kongondo's blog module and, since I'm anything but not a designer, incorporated the free "Striped" template from HTML5UP.

The result is Striped Travel Blog Template (Responsive).

Excellent! I've been toying with the idea of shipping the Blog Module with one of this free blog templates but never got round to it. 

On 14/03/2018 at 4:29 PM, BitPoet said:

The layout is classical (some might say "very nineties" )

 that's exactly what I've been told about my websites! 

[BitPoet]

26 minutes ago, kongondo said:

Excellent! I've been toying with the idea of shipping the Blog Module with one of this free blog templates but never got round to it. 

Let's give the users a choice