www.open-mind-culture.org

This is a small blog for the main purpose to keep up with WordPress changes, as I have been using WordPress from the very beginning but rarely used it professionally anymore.

Linter

npx stylelint "**/*.css" --fix

Plugins

plugins/plugins.md

Ingo's Personal Project Roadmap

A unified roadmap for builing apps, themes, and any other kind of extension to existing software, currently focused on Shopware, WordPress, and fractal.

Development: Directories and Repositories

• open-mind-culture.org (this repository) is my WordPress project. Development directory structure:
  • content/export (export CMS content form database)
  • docker-compose.yml (local dev setup)
  • plugins
    • customizer.css (optional style overrides, should be obsolete when using child theme)
    • patch.functions.php (optional modifications, should be obsolete when using child theme)
    • plugins.md (list of required plugins)
    • carbon-footprint-api (wp-carbon-footprint-api)
  • themes
    • fasto-child (wp-fasto-child-theme)
  • wp-root (optional DevOps settings for performance and security to deploy to WordPress root folder on a shared host)
• fractal-shopware-demo
  • (similar themes and plugins for Shopware 6, NOT for fractal, despite the name)
• fractal-build-example
  • reusable web components organized and tested in a design system
• bookstack-reading-list-app is a project using JavaScript-based full-stack web development with Node.js, Preact, and TypeScript.

Changelog

• 2022

  • common roadmap for WordPress + Shopware development
  • readability: color contrast
  • default image placeholder size / ratio
  • move all customizations (css, php) to child theme
  • add tests (using Cypress or Codecept)
  • progressive enhancement: use new CSS features
  • research / practice: use new WordPress features
  • continuously backup data
  • prepare possible migration to 11ty/gatsby/...

• 2021 Theme 'Fasto' used for more readability and easier maintenance; minify features to improve loading speed and web vitals ranking: use default built-in image gallery (needs css fix against distorted proportions); deactivate non essential plugins; unregister block editor css (we currently only use classic editor);

• 2020 Custom styles are finally deployed as a child theme (twentytwenty-child) The child theme will be mounted into a local WordPress running on localhost:8077 after running docker-compose up.

• 2020 use twentytwenty default theme and rewrote essential custom changes as customizer css

• 2020 keep using web font "Nothing You Could Do" by Kimberly Geswein.

• before: using modified Suri theme