Testing the WordLand Baseline Theme
Category: Testing
May 20, 2025 by Scott Hanson

This is a post with a featured image. We've just added support for featured images, and we're putting it at the top of the post constrained to the width of the post body.

May 15, 2025 by Scott Hanson

A test post never comes alone. They generally come in twos or threes or even as a crowd!

May 6, 2025 by Scott Hanson

We're trying out smaller post titles on the home page. These are now 25px, as opposed to 32px on the single post page. 

Block quotes are supported by WordLand, but didn't yet have a style.

This is now a block quote with a style.

And here is some text after the block quote.

April 30, 2025 by Dave Winer

This is a list of things that I want to try out on the new baseline theme.

Here are five great MLB first basemen and what made each of them especially interesting:

  1. Lou Gehrig – The "Iron Horse" of the Yankees, famous for his durability, humility, and tragic early retirement due to ALS, which now bears his name.

  2. Albert Pujols – A modern legend known for his all-around hitting, consistency, and longevity, finishing with over 700 home runs.

  3. Willie McCovey – Towering lefty slugger for the Giants, feared for his monstrous power and iconic presence in the batter’s box.

  4. Keith Hernandez – Brilliant defensively, redefining how first base was played with range, quickness, and leadership—also a memorable personality.

  5. Frank Thomas – “The Big Hurt” dominated the ‘90s with his intimidating size and incredible hitting eye, combining power with patience.

Thanks for listening, this has been a test!

April 30, 2025 by Scott Hanson

Here is a test post with an image 1600 pixels wide.

April 26, 2025 by Scott Hanson

I've applied the single column layout proposed by Christy Nyiri. I personally think it looks fantastic. 

Here are some WordLand styles.

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

This is a block quote. (This doesn't seem to be styled yet.)

Bold, italics, underlined (hmm, it's not underlined). 

An ordered shopping list:

  1. Bread
  2. Milk
  3. Eggs

Notes as an unordered list:

  •  The next/previous links have returned to the WordPress default instead of large arrows only. Update: That was my bug, now fixed.
  • As Christy noted, the child elements of the Post Template block are a little weird at inheriting global padding, as evidenced on mobile.
  • Are H1 and H2 way too big? Update I've bumped down the font-sizes of H1 to H3 to large, medium, and normal. H1 now matches the size of the post title, and H3 matches the size of normal paragraph text.

Here's a paragraph that appears under the unordered list.

April 22, 2025 by Scott Hanson

This is a paragraph of text that comes above the list. These five random items were generated by AI.

  1. Mango
  2. Telescope
  3. Jazz music
  4. Notebook
  5. Bicycle pump

And this is a paragraph to finish this list.

It looks like WordPress is putting 22 px top and bottom margin on the paragraphs and the ordered list, and 18 px top and bottom between the list items (actually the margin is on the p element within the li).

Here are the same items as an unordered list.

  • Mango
  • Telescope
  • Jazz music
  • Notebook
  • Bicycle pump

And finally some text as a paragraph that appears below the list.

April 20, 2025 by Scott Hanson

For Change #4 some adjustments to the post body text were requested.

  • Font size should be 18px
  • Font weight should be 400
  • Font color black on white background
  • Values should be able to be changed in browser dev tools

In block style WordPress themes most of the CSS is in the theme.json file.

  • The font size in a post is set in core WordPress to the CSS variable –wp–preset–font-size–normal. "normal" is set in WordPress itself to 16px, so I set "normal" in theme.json to 18px.
  • I also increased the "small" font size from 16px to 18px. 
  • Under "typography" I changed the font weight from 300 to 400.
  • Also under "typography" the background was already set to white, so I left it.
  • Yesterday I posted on how to view and change CSS variables in dev tools.  
  • On my own, I also increased the size of "x-small" text from 14px to 16px, since the text in the sidebar and the footer seemed too small compared to the 18px post body text.

Once these changes are tested, they will become version 0.0.2 of the theme.

April 18, 2025 by Dave Winer

This is a test to see if I can post on Scott's WordPress blog on his server, not sure where it is, might be in Germany?

I added a WordLand category. Tried to add a Testing category but got an error message saying that "A taxonomy with that name already exists," which is weird because I didn't try to add a taxonomy, I added a category.

People are going to blame WordLand for that, but the message came from WordPress.

March 26, 2025 by Scott Hanson

If I intend to use WordLand permanently, it would be silly to have a site named wordland-test.shanson.de. So I'm changing the name to wordland.shanson.de. Let's see if that breaks anything. 😃

  • Changed the settings for the docker container running WordPress to accept connections from a second domain 
  • In the WordPress General settings, change the WordPress URL and Site URL 
  • At wordpress.com, the new URL already shows up under Sites 
  • In WordLand, log out of wordpress.com and log back it. The new URL shows up from my site.
  • Try a new post to the new URL. That's what this is.
  • Check the WordPress RSS feed. Only the new domain is contained in the feed. The feed is visible at both the old and the new feed URLs.
  • The WordLand RSS feed uses the new URL for the new post and keeps the old URL for older posts. That's OK, since the old URLs still work, and will eventually be redirected to the new URL

 

So I didn't really break much of anything.

Last update: 6/6/25; 3:14:36 PM.