Testing the WordLand Baseline Theme
May 4, 2025 by Dave Winer
Questions about where we're at and how this will work going forward..
- When will it become time to install this on daveverse? assuming that will have to wait until baseline theme is available on wordpress.com.
- The home page is awkward mix of titled and titleless posts. Have to think about this. We've handled titleless ok on the story page. The home page is basically a timeline. Prior art in many places. Scripting News home page for example, though it breaks things down into days, not really good here. Also the Timeline that's now in WordLand does this for titled and untitled posts, as does the FeedLand timeline. Using it will help answer.
- I got from previous answers that it will not be possible for a WordLand user to add CSS at either the story or site level. Next question, Scott, looking at the built page in the debugger, it appears as if my CSS file is included more or less as-is, ie makes it all the way back to my browser! So it looks like you should be able to just incorporate my changes somehow, without having to enter each by hand.
- I will have some tweaks to the CSS later today.
- On the story page — when a post doesn't have a title, make the byline (time and author) be in the style of the title. This might be the answer for the awkwardness of the home page (see above).
- <title> in the head section of each of the page needs work. The home page should be the title of the blog, and each story page the title should be the title of the post.