Having spent the last week or so playing around with BearBlog, I've just spent the last few hours importing everything into my main site. I can learn from the simplicity, but my Kirby CMS build just does more...
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26 posts · April 2024 – September 2025
September 2025
July 2025
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I've implemented the sharing and button upgrades from (link: https://mastodon.online/@mauricerenck text: @mauricerenck@mastodon.online) IndieConnector 2.10.0 for KirbyCMS. It tidied up my panel view, with most blueprints fitting on a page.
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I have quickly added 4 x webmention templates to my site for bookmarks, likes, replies and reposts. Still working out exactly how they work, but excited about the functionality this adds to my site.
June 2025
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My website has updated itself to Kirby 5.0 while I've been out today, and the world has not ended. Hello dark view.
May 2025
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It took a little research to find out how to display file sizes nicely on card previews in the @getkirby panel, but the appropriately named
text: "{{ file.nicesize }} - {{ file.dimensions }}"query does just that.
April 2025
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As knee deep in code today, I also took the opportunity to upgrade the run/ride metadata on my site so that is more prominent and iconised, similar to my RSS and echofeed streams.
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As it was a long weekend, I spent a day installing Komments 3.1.1 on my Kirby CMS build, and styling the new output streams. Have just concluded a morning of looking for html problems in my css.
February 2025
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I have updated my rss feeds to incorporate additional metadata, and incorporated my final content types (for now). Except for some minor templating remaining, this phase of development is complete.
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I've completely rewritten my microblog page as I could not work out why responsivity on mobile was broken on the first archive page (only!). I've stripped back the code, making it simple and lean.
January 2025
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I migrated my site to Kirby in March, and have finally finished cleansing posts, building the structure and feeds. I still need to refine some templating, but I can now concentrate on adding content.
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I'm using snippets rather than templates to build custom micro post types, saving time on file renaming later. Here is an example of one of the few link posts in my archive, in the new post type.
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I finally managed to display directly link and display related blog articles in my digital garden, much more robust than the workaround using tags yesterday. Read on for my cookbook implementation.
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I've come up with a way to link blog and digital garden pages together on my website using a hidden tag field. I would have preferred to reverse the linked page field, but struggled to implement.
I can get on now with building out the remainder of my structure, and tidying up and arranging my content. While for future posts the two sections are semi automatically linked, galleries build directly from uploads, and the new RSS feeds automate posting to the IndieWeb.
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I've spent half an hour getting RSS feeds working in my digital garden sections, so that I can share through echofeed. I wasted far too much time on this last weekend, lesson - test for empty fields!
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I've had a magical mystery tour through Kirby blueprints, sections, controllers, collections and templates - but I'm happy with how my digital garden section is growing.
(link: page://7nHf9g8x1IPprdQB text: Digital Garden)
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I have re-engineered the galleries in my blog to load directly from image uploads, without using Kirby blocks. Got lost in css weeds and rebuilt from scratch with flex box. Code tidy up needed soon.
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I created a separate microblog on my site last night, with working tags - sliding my ephemeral content across. Styling still to do - but now understand how to design & build my digital garden section.
