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⌘ Plugin: Tiny Theme includes bigfoot footnotes and more
The latest Tiny Theme for Micro.blog update includes bug fixes for the newsletter template, bigfoot footnotes, and forms in dark mode. Soon, I hope to add some features specific to tinylytics and cross-posting too. Are there any other features you’d like?
17 June 2023
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⌘ Tiny Theme update: browser theme colour via plugin
By far, the most requested feature for Tiny Theme was the ability to easily change the browser theme color. I’ve now added the ability to do that via a plugin. First, update Tiny Theme to the latest version. Then install the new browser color plugin from the directory and choose your colors.
Also in this update for Tiny Theme is improved styling for the included newsletter theme.
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⌘ Tiny Theme includes a newsletter template
Tiny Theme now includes a matching newsletter template. This requires a Micro.blog Premium subscription. It’s very basic due to the complex nature of styling email, but it matches the out-of-box look of Tiny. If you’ve customized Tiny, you may also want to customize the included newsletter template to match.
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⌘ Updates and fixes for all themes, May 2023
All of the official Micro.blog themes have now been updated with Microformats fixes and other missing markup. Also improves Cactus, an older neglected theme that fell over in the transition to Hugo 0.91. There are now over 30 themes in the plug-in directory. 🎉
With further clarification:
The changelog (commit history) is available for each theme over at GitHub. Here's Cactus, for example. I've run a test suite on each theme that checks for:
- Microformat presence
- Plug-in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML include compatibility
- Custom CSS and Footer support
- Conversation.js inclusion
- RSD and Webmention presence
For now, the test suite mostly runs on my machine and is not designed to be easy to use. But we might pack it up and release it for third-party theme developers to test their own themes. Of course, nothing is stopping you from doing that now, if you feel adventurous. 😊 But it’s not officially released yet and unsupported for now.
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⌘ Outpost Theme by Mike Haynes
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⌘ Video about Plugins and how one Micro.Blog member uses them
Micro.Blog member Numeric Citizen has created a 20 minute video about plugins: Micro.blog Plugins — Why Use Them & Which One I Use.
In this video, I cover Micro.blog plugins, an important aspect of Micro.blog if you want to customize or add some features to your Micro.blog website.
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⌘ Plugin: Search Space
Sven Dahlstrand’s plugin Search Space is now at version 1.0.0:
Search Space is your trusty companion for finding posts and replies deep down your Micro.blog’s archive. Features like search suggestions and links to timeline conversations make it easy and fun to rediscover your old posts and replies.
🔭 Search Space is out of beta! 🥂 New in version 1.0.0:
- 🎙️ Transcripts can be indexed!
- 🪚 Post content in search results is truncated at 300 characters.
- 🗂️ Indexing replies and transcripts are optional.
- 👋 The greeting text (Welcome to Search Space …) can be edited in the settings.