Posts tagged with "microformats"

I've just released BlogMore v2.28.0. This release has some small improvements to the JSON-LD structured data that was added in the last release, and also adds support for actually showing author names on posts.

On the latter point first: I only ever really created BlogMore for myself, thinking that perhaps some other folk might use it at some point. All along, though, I had it in mind that it would only ever be used to create a site where there was a single author. Despite this, though, I'd added support for setting the author per-post, and this was reflected in the RSS and Atom feeds.

But I'd never added support for showing the author in posts.

So this release adds that feature. I've tried to add full control, with settings that let you turn on/off showing the author blog-wide, as well as providing control per-post. Also, as well as setting the default author for a blog, and being able to set the author for a specific post, you can do the same for an author's URL (setting it blog-wide and per post).

Obviously, when the author is shown, if a URL can be worked out (the one local to the post is chosen first, then the blog-wide default if one isn't set for the post), the author's name links to their URL.

The JSON-LD changes are a couple of small improvements to the content. The author data adds a url property (following the same rules mentioned above) and the image property for a post will fall back to the site logo (if one is set) when there is no cover.

Much like the last two releases of BlogMore, this is another that has ended up being on the theme of improving or adorning the generated HTML.

One change in the last release resulted in another HTML validator warning, and so that's cleaned up here (the removal of the h2 elements from the sidebar meant it no longer made sense for it to be a section, so I've turned it into a div).

On top of that, I've also decided to dip my toe into adding more "microformat" type things to the generated code. This release adds things like JSON-LD structured data and Microformats2 semantic markup, where appropriate. I've also updated all of the "socials" links that appear in the sidebar to ensure they're marked up as rel="me".

Given that this is a bit of an experiment, expect to see some tweaks and changes as I roll this out on this blog and then check and test the result. This is a useful learning exercise for me.