Tag: meta

Features

• Status Archive pages — auto-added Youtube and Vimeo poster images as the “featured image” for the respective status updates.
• Cool. New. Tag. Showcase. On the front page. For folks not familiar with GPORG and want to know what GPORG has to offer.

Improvements

• Mobile – moved the hamburger menu button to the bottom middle of the screen, for thumbs to reach easily. (Also added a cool animation where it changes from a normal hamburger menu icon to an arrow).
• Added some CSS black magic to make the scrollbar on the menu thinner and simpler. This only works on webkit browsers (Chrome and Safari), hence the black magic part (as a Firefox user, I mean…). I’m too used to having Mac OS set up so the scrollbars don’t actually show up unless you’re scrolling and didn’t think about how it looks on Windows.
• Made some accessibility & best practice improvements to make Lighthouse happy.
• Made the image headers on all pages taller. This makes it easier for me to hunt down images that would look great in this particular aspect ratio (instead of behind ridiculously widescreen, it’s just über widescreen).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the lazyloading wouldn’t work.

Soooo…it’s been up for a while, but I completely redid Giantpaper…not just the appearance, but the entire structure and purpose.

Before

It was more a normal blog blog (with words…preferably a lot of words). The amount I posted tapered off over the years, mostly because I started posting almost everything on Book of Faces (in friends-only posts). Post categories were like post tags, but much broader (ex. there was the dreams category, and posts in dreams were tagged with types of dreams, like ghosts for dreams with ghosts, etc).

After

Added a photolog feature, so now I’m going through old Lightroom photos and posting them. Reason is, I decided I wanted to have sort of a photolog going on, and set it up as a separate site. But it didn’t seem right having it as a separate site. 🤔 Eventually, I decided to combine the photolog with Giantpaper (because I wasn’t posting much there anyway), so…yeah…

• Both posts and photos are tagged with the same set of tags–both under the taxonomy, post_tag.
• Post categories are still a thing and only apply to blog posts. They were also redone. They’re less like vague topics and more like types of posts, I guess? Categories named after blog topics were all converted to post tags. Also I’m trying to keep it as one category per post. The current naming scheme of the new categories is still under construction, btw.

The structure is kind of unconventional, but at one point, you gotta say screw what everyone thinks and come up with something YOU’RE happy with using and maintaining regularly. 😤

I’m not sure how common this is, and I don’t get this myself too often. But I got at least two emails from other sites and companies if I would link to their content.

Giantpaper.org is just a personal blog, which exists for my own pleasure and to sharpen my skillz0r. I don’t do it for internet popularity or to make money. I post whatever I want, even if no one cares about it. Half of the time, the site experiences slows (due to me experimenting on it) and errors (ditto), so I most certainly don’t expect people to stick around. I don’t really have a loyal readership or anything like that. I don’t have an entire team helping me manage this site. It’s just me, some nerd with a computer who decided to run a personal blog.

If I link to something somewhere on this site, it’ll be because I tried it out either on my own or through work and liked it enough to link to it on there. I’m not to put something on that page and tell people I like it if I never even tried it!!!! Simple. C:

(Second of all, I have no idea how these people are getting my email address. I used to have a contact page with a form and link to my email, but not anymore.)

About Plugin Credit…

Edited to add: Some WP plugins (not mentioning any names), if you express interest in linking to their site on your WP blog, they’ll choose how you get to link to them. NO NO NO, my site, I choose how I get to link to you. It was fairly good plugin, I wouldn’t link to them with negative feedback. (I ended up switching it out for another plugin that seems to do a better job, based on my web server.)