These changes should be applied to Scott's WordLand.
The left sidebar should switch to the right side. When the page is viewed on a tablet, that stuff appears before the text of the post, which is ridiculous. You came there to read the story. I figure that if it's on the right side, the CSS will show it after the text of the post. And I think most of it is going to go away anyway (can be put in the footer, that's where I look for it, and where I put it on Scripting News).
Change Designed with WordPress at the bottom to "Written in WordLand, running on the WordPress platform." Point from WordLand to wordland.social, and point to wordpress.org from the name WordPress. At some point we may want to write a page defining the WordPress platform, and that's something I'd want to do in conjunction with someone from WordPress, not sure how that works, given its open source status. And btw, text like this inevitably changes a few times before going final, so be ready for that! 🙂
We need to take a close look at prior art for the title area, how to convey the author, pub date and categories so they don't get in each others' way. I'm going to look at various pubs I respect to see how they do it. Suggestions here are most welcome.
The font for the body of the post. It must be bigger, right now it's 16px, make it 18px. I find it hard to read that color combination, the thin, light color text on an an off-white background. The font-weight is 300 which is thinner than normal which is 400 (I looked it up). So the font-weight should be "normal" not 300. The font color should be black and the background color white. Also if you can make it so those values can be changed in the browser. The way they have it set up, I can't play with via the debugger, and that's much faster than going back and forth in the editor.
I don't like the way the next/prev links at the bottom are stacked vertically. Totally not the way to do that. The best way is to put them on the same line at each edge of the document. Using float: right, it's pretty simple imho and reliable. (The prior art in WordLand is pretty good. Just two arrows pointing left and right. When you hover over the arrow it shows you the title. I think that's how the feature is actually used by real people reading the site.)
Have to think about what services I want to link to. Bluesky, GitHub, Mastodon, Scripting.
I wonder how links are shown in this theme. (I use light blue in WordLand and Scripting, pretty much everywhere. I think I adopted it from Facebook.) Black underline. They are visible from a distance but not as distracting as blue.
Ordered and unordered lists need added space between each of the li's. 10px or so as the margin-bottom, for every li but the last one. There's a CSS way to exclude it.
More for ordered and unordered lists, the margin-block-start property is 22px, which is way too much. (I still find it too hard to play with the variables, I'll figure it out.) I don't think it should have that property at all, just let line-height do its job. There's no need for extra vertical space at the beginning of a up or ol.
Where it says Posted in Testing, WordLand, WordPress at the bottom, that's a good spot for now, and it's good it's in the same color as the date at the top, but change the wording to this — "Categories: Testing, WordLand, WordPress." I understand why they said it that way because it's probably not easy to have it be Category when there's one item in the list and Categories when there's more than one, and to not display it at all if the only category is Uncategorized. If it were easy to do it, they would do it. I'm going to post this separately in the repo, see if there are any comments. Note that the "Posted in" approach still shows Uncategorized, which is a possible reason to leave out the Category display altogether. Which raises another question — how easy is it to add JS code to the theme? That might be the answer, only show the Categories if we have JS, and I can give you the code that does that, I have it in WordLand.
Add an icon for the RSS feed in the sidebar next to twitter, facebook and instagram (also add bluesky and mastodon as well). When linking to the RSS feed point to the actual feed, for now. (I may want to do a special page for the feed that always shows the feed content, without being processed by the browsers, which do the shittiest possible interpretation of what's in a feed. When I lift the hood of a car I see lots of complicated technology but there might be one or two things I need access too, and I am not a car techie. Same applies to the web. When it came to RSS — the browser people didn't care enough to think this through or listen. Let's do this right here.)
There doesn't appear to be a style in the baseline for blockquote.
In the list of icons in the margin, if you haven't configured one of the services, it should not appear in the list. For example, when I click on the Twitter icon, nothing happens.
The Twitter icon in the list of icons must change to X since the service's name has changed.