Somehow minor version numbers are tracking the day of the month at the moment, and that isn't on purpose, but here we are on March 14th with BlogMore v1.14.01.
This release has a couple of changes: one is directly practical and the other a little more experimental/hopeful.
For starters, I've added a minify_html option. Having added minification for CSS and JavaScript files, it made sense to finally do this for all the HTML that's output too. So, if minify_html is set to true in the configuration file, or --minify-html is passed on the command line, any generated HTML file will be squished down as much as possible to reduce its overall byte size.
Every little helps, right?
The second change comes from a request that I don't directly know how to handle, so this is an experiment with allowing for it. The request was for "themes". Now, from the start, I created BlogMore such that the templates can be overridden and that custom stylesheets can be used, but the idea of "themes" suggests something more formal. Allowing for this and planning for this isn't straightforward because, honestly, I'm no web developer and no designer.
So what I have done is try and ensure that the templates and stylesheet are as sensible as possible and then also expand the documentation to try and make it possible for someone to step in and write their own theme.
I've also tried to ensure that there are adequate instructions for agents in the codebase such that no breaking change will be made in the templates and styling, without this being obvious. The plan here is to keep the core of the theme support as stable as possible and to adequately alert people to any breaking change (and, ideally, to never make any breaking change).
On top of all of that, I've got Copilot to also make three example themes. None are that radical, and I might see if I can coax it into making one or two more that are a bit wilder, but they should at least be helpful for someone with skills who feels more adventurous than me (or they might at least work as examples for an agent so that more themes can be AI-generated).
If only it was v3.14... 🥧 ↩