(High Roller is the name of this new theme.) <\/p>\n
I really expected more problems. I ALWAYS have strange browser conflicts when I work on my theme. Someone with Chrome will report bad spacing. Someone using last year’s Opera will report that some screen element is floating off somewhere absurd. Someone on a mobile will be unable to reach the sidebar. Etc.<\/p>\n
But High Roller was surprisingly smooth. Nearly all of the complaints were on readability and usability issues, and most of them were in agreement. This is unprecedented. The old thread has burned out and become obsolete. I updated the Theme several times during the day on Monday, and addressed the most serious concerns. Now that I’ve done those fixes I want to re-start the discussion in case anyone else has any issues.<\/p>\n
The only thing left on my to-do list is to add some text above the comment box to let people know what tags they can use. Actually, I’m thinking of making a new page. WordPress only lets people use certain tags, and all else will be expunged. <span> and <div> must be forbidden because of the trouble they can cause. I’d like to take some obscure tag that nobody uses and turn it into our spoiler tag so that people can mask spoilers. Maybe <cite>? Maybe <abbr>? There are plugins that add a bunch of forum \/ wiki style markups for comments, but I just got done overhauling the theme to speed things up so I’m not eager to add some new filter to slow things down again.<\/p>\n
Speaking of which, if you drag over the very bottom of the page you can see how long it takes WordPress to generate the current page. This number is apples-and-oranges with what I was using it before. It includes a bunch of processing that I wasn’t. Before, pages would vary a great deal. Slow pages would be ten times slower than fast ones. Now performance is far more uniform, and we no longer see troublesome spikes. (I really, really<\/em> wish my web host would give me a CPU usage meter so I could make proper comparisons.) <\/p>\n And finally, I’m still undecided on the issue of threaded comments. They are certainly a double-edged sword. I feel I need to give it a week before I make that decision. Maybe I’ll put up a poll? Still thinking it over.<\/p>\n Again, feedback welcome. Thanks again to everyone for the useful suggestions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (High Roller is the name of this new theme.) I really expected more problems. I ALWAYS have strange browser conflicts when I work on my theme. Someone with Chrome will report bad spacing. Someone using last year’s Opera will report that some screen element is floating off somewhere absurd. Someone on a mobile will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}