Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG) Thoughts and Plans
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Josh Betz ☛ Lazy Load WordPress Images – Josh Betz
Since WordPress 5.5, WordPress has started enabling lazy loading on images. This was dramatically improved in WordPress 6.3.
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Julia Freeman ☛ The search for a website building tool
I've had various websites over the years, made with various different tools, from handcrafted html, to the C preprocessor (yep, using GCC to generate html!), to server side includes, to wordpress. I wanted to make a website to write about some of my making projects, I didn't want it to also become a programming project, and also wanted to move away from the rather heavy platform that wordpress is for such a small website. In recent years static site generators (SSG) have become quite popular as a way of running a website, so I thought I'd give one of those a go.
What I didn't realise was the rabbit hole I was about to jump head first into, and as it turns out, how hard it is for modern website platforms to do simple things with images. Having finally conquered this, many people asked me to write about the experience, and what my eventual solution was. That's this article.
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Michael Kjörling ☛ In Pelican, assigning a HTML ID or a CSS class to an image
By a slightly roundabout way via Julia’s The search for a website building tool discussing responsive images, I found a way of adding custom CSS classes, as well as a custom HTML ID, to images when using the Pelican static site generator (as I do). Oddly, this technique does not currently appear to be mentioned in the Pelican documentation, but maybe I am simply looking in the wrong place. It is however mentioned by way of example in the readme for the image-process plugin.