Blog redesign next steps and discussion

[jywarren]

We're looking to improve the blog template again with some design inspiration from this WordPress template:

We'd like to keep it really minimal but want to:

• add a sidebar including recent posts
• show only the first 300px of the post content, with a Read more button that toggles the rest to be visible
• include social media links in sidebar
• include a list of recent tweets in sidebar

We'd love help chopping this up into pieces to implement! This is a pretty simple set of changes that would make some good first-timers-only issues!

[humaidkidwai]

Hello!
I am interested in contributing
What needs to be done?

[CleverFool77]

Let's break this issue into various parts 🤔
And we can have awesome collaboration with all the contributors in this.
😀

[IshaGupta18]

yes, I think that would be great!

[IshaGupta18]

I could go with the first one if that's okay @jywarren !

[divyabaid16]

I can go up with the second one!

[humaidkidwai]

I'll go with anything that makes me learn something new and gets your work done 😃

[grvsachdeva]

Ok. Let's make a checklist.

• Create HTML layout and set up a temporary route for the page - @CleverFool77

• Blog header - @gautamig54

• Listing blogs on the left. Also, design the post similar to the above design. @divyabaid16 and @atjustbeinghumaid

• List recent posts in the sidebar. Design as above. - @IshaGupta18

• Show recent tweets of Public Lab in the sidebar. - @CleverFool77

Add more to the checklist and divide further, as you like. Thanks everyone 💯 ❤️ !

[CleverFool77]

Thanks for breaking up this issue @gauravano .
I'll begin with first part of this issue. 😃

[grvsachdeva]

Great!

[jywarren]

You all are awesome!!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

we could put the new version at /blog2 for now!!!

[digitaldina]

This is an awesome idea, I had my real look-through public lab last weekend and I was thinking about how slightly overweening it must be for people not familiar with it. This is definitely going to help

[CleverFool77]

Hi @jywarren @gauravano
I'm bit confused regarding the basic html layout for blog2
Do I have to create a dummy layout like this in blog2.html.erb ? or make changes to layout of blog.html.erb for /blog2 route in blog2.html.erb !!

[grvsachdeva]

Hi @jywarren @gauravano
I'm bit confused regarding the basic html layout for blog2
Do I have to create a dummy layout like this in blog2.html.erb?

This one!

[gautamig54]

I would love to contribute to this task.
I'll take up second and the third task. Adding social media links to the sidebar and showing only the first 300px of the post content, with a Read more button that toggles the rest to be visible.

[humaidkidwai]

I previously assumed that the changes have to be made to the original blog file
Thank you @CleverFool77 for making things clear

[gautamig54]

@jywarren I think, the main post should also have the tags and like/spam/follow buttons displayed as well.

I would like to take up this task. Thanks!

[divyabaid16]

I would love to contribute to this task.
I'll take up second and the third task. Adding social media links to the sidebar and showing only the first 300px of the post content, with a Read more button that toggles the rest to be visible.

Hi, @gautamig54 actually I and @atjustbeinghumaid are doing the second one and @IshaGupta18 is going up with the third one. So I guess you can take up #5352 (comment) if it is approved.
We will surely ask you for your help.
Thanks 😄

[gautamig54]

Oh okay @divyabaid16. Thanks!

[jywarren]

#5394 merged! 🎉

[gautamig54]

Can we resume this issue and complete our assigned tasks?

[divyabaid16]

I think that all are connected. So before the review of #5449, we can't move on with the next one @gautamig54
Thanks!

[chaurasia-namrata]

Is this project completed or any work is remaining? I would love to contribute to this project.

[grvsachdeva]

Hi @chaurasia-namrata, it's still in-progress. you can see the progress at https://publiclab.org/blog2 and you can also help. Next part is claimed by @divyabaid16 and @atjustbeinghumaid but if they're busy you can claim it?

Thanks!

[chaurasia-namrata]

Hi @chaurasia-namrata, it's still in-progress. you can see the progress at https://publiclab.org/blog2 and you can also help. Next part is claimed by @divyabaid16 and @atjustbeinghumaid but if they're busy you can claim it?
Thanks!

Thanks @gauravano

[humaidkidwai]

Anyone else can claim this issue

[divyabaid16]

Yes @chaurasia-namrata you can work on this. Do ask in case you need any help.
Thanks!

[daningenthron]

Hi everyone 👋- we refactored the 'Read More' link to a button in response to a separate issue. I now see that was one of the original goals here. I'm happy to tackle another piece of the redesign if any help is needed?

[jywarren]

Hi, we'd love help with any part of the list of changes at the top! Thank you @daningenthron !

[stale]

Hi 😄, this issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. Don't worry you can continue to work on this and ask @publiclab/reviewers to add "work in progress" label 🎉 . Otherwise, it will be closed if no further activity occurs in 5 days -- but you can always re-open it if you like! 💯 Thank you for your contributions 🙌 🎈.

[jywarren]

Sorry about the stalebot message here, it was a mistake! 😅

[jywarren]

Hi all, we are still looking to spin out issues from this! https://publiclab.org/blog2 now exists but is mostly (all?) static content, and so we are now mostly copying in content and functions from https://publiclab.org/blog to the new page -- we'd love help!

The templates are:

1. https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/blob/main/app/views/tag/blog.html.erb (old)
2. https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/blob/main/app/views/tag/blog2.html.erb (new)

[Cadreia]

@jywarren I would like to work on this issue. Can I proceed?

[damiecode]

@jywarren I would like to work on this issue too. @Cadreia can we divide it?

[RuthNjeri]

@Cadreia , @damiecode hi 👋🏾 , I'd like to tag in as well.. as a suggestion, maybe we could start with copying in the content, for example, the:

1. This is basic html layout
2. Recent Post
3. Categories

do not have content, we can each create an issue for it then begin working on it if @jywarren approves.
In addition, just in case anyone else needs to work on something,

4. The Public Lab Logo at the top is not present
5. The footer at the bottom has text that is not correctly aligned and some links are not visible(@jywarren can confirm if changes are needed)

There could be more needed issues, just in case anyone catches anything else...

[Cadreia]

@RuthNjeri that's a great idea. But like you said, we need @jywarren to approve this.
Also, I noticed an issue with mobile responsiveness. The content of the page exceeds the width of the screen on mobile devices.

[stacytonui]

I'd also love to take part in this.

[tawahpeggy]

I will like to be part of those working on this issue