Hey there,
hopefully you had refreshing holidays, didn’t get your hands blown off by someone’s firecracker, then check this out:
Meet Lingonberry
Lingonberry, one of my favorite Wordpress themes back in the days - when Anders Norén first released it, I just loved it, and even today admire its simple approach to a full-featured blogging experience (beautiful typography, custom post types, wide range of archives built-in).
I have been a fan of his work as well, when I used Wordpress. I even tried to contact him but he did not reply. He is from Sweden, a wonderful country.
Gotta love Sweden, true!
For now, I’m interested in ways to further simplify Lingonberry, then I’ll use this for (all) other themes from Anders - and maybe dice, too!
Glad you appreciate Lingonberry, but I gotta say - your work … well, you rock!
// Update: What priority do you think should I assign to adding comment function + styles?
Comments are much easier to implement in WordPress because it’s built in. With Kirby you need to choose an approach. I would probably go with one of these:
But even if you leave the comment part out of your themes, it’s still possible for the developer to implement a comment system by choice, by modifing your theme.
If anything, I’d only include something like KirbyComments, certainly not Facebook. But you might as well only recommend a solution and leave it out completely, for the users to choose what they prefer. After all, not everyone needs a comment system.
That definitely is the way to go: optional, but fully functional. I neither promote Facebook nor Disqus, and if people want to integrate, that’s their choice to make.
Also, the point’s not wether comments are beneficial, although that concern is totally valid - I’m porting a theme that has integrated comment support, and I want to reflect that - it’s a port, not a modified version, after all.
Thanks for the input so far, based on it I believe the way to go is optional KirbyComments support (being activated by ticking a nifty checkbox).
Hi,
nice feature! i love to see the active development.
I just noticed, that the search function is also searching through comments. That’s great. But maybe it should show results sorted by comments and blog-entries.
Also seacrh results of comments are not very informative. for example the title of the search results entries are like “comment-2” without any info on the related blog-post.
this is no complainment… just trying to share thoughts =)
@demlak:
While I appreciate your thoughts on the issue, I’m with @daybugging on this one:
Staying close to the original Lingonberry theme, there will be no comment-specific search function. Feel free to fork & modify it, as implementing this feature should be quite easy (for further API instructions, check out KirbyComments (demo available here, will soon add some to the Lingonberry demo as well).
However, thanks for mentioning that currently comments appear among search results, as well - that’s definitely unplanned
@daybugging:
Adding translatable strings is on my list.
PRs are always welcome too, you know
I’m currently working towards making Lingonberry as DRY as possible - being a stepping stone for rapid development of additional theme ports.
Any missing feature will be implemented along the way eventually. Thanks for the great interest in this project so far, and stay well
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