Last updated 2024 June 9
Backend / data ideas
- Custom taxonomy for author names for fiction books I’ve read
- Display site statistics — specifically, number of posts and total word count — would be fun to also display graphs over time
- Some accessibility and privacy improvements (via Nick Simson)
- Better search — Better Search plugin
- Block archiving and caching for Bing Chat
- Redirect plugin
- Install this code snippet
Styling ideas
- Render internal backlinks differently from external comments
- Example of two styles of link references
- Dark mode — light-dark()
- Type improvements — via and via
- CSS text wrapping (unsupported on Firefox though 😿): “Use
text-wrap: balance;on headings and subheadings. And usetext-wrap: pretty;on paragraphs of text to get rid of orphans on the last line.” — Stephanie Stimac - Styling webmentions and comments better — inspo from John Peart
- Polka dots – radial-gradient
- Figure out why some reading buttons get bigger on click and others don’t, and why they stay embiggened
- Display archive of posts as a list
- WordPress instructions for Archive page template + Stack Overflow instructions for sorting by year
- Display Posts plugin?
- Smashing Magazine tutorial
- Customize category archive pages
- Small caps for definitions?
- Use <meter> instead of my hacky progress meter for writing?
- Bookmark Card plugin? (via Chuck Grimmett)
- Use <mark> for highlighting instead of a span class?
Content ideas
- Create guestbook and redirect person mentions there instead of my about page — 12/23 created page but still need to reprocess mentions from current page — 12/23 researched and it would require a plugin to change which page they’re associated with
- “Shoebox” for odds and ends – gilest.org
- Add more lists of posts to encourage exploration more
- Plugins to try from March 2022
- Reading time plugin
- Garden section — suggested by Anthony Ciccarello
- Nature observations from iNaturalist – widget
- Pods plugin — custom fields / organization