blog! “A completely plaintext WordPress Theme”

[edent@mastodon.social]

blog! “A completely plaintext WordPress Theme”

This is a silly idea. But it works. I saw Dan Q wondering about plaintext WordPress themes - so I made one. This is what this blog looks like using it: The Code You only need two files. An index.php and a style.css. The CSS file can be empty, but it needs to exist - […]

Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/a-completely-plaintext-wordpress-theme/
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[edent@mastodon.social]

Psssst! Visit my blog and add ".txt" to the end of any URl.

You should get a plaintext version of the page

E.g. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/a-completely-plaintext-wordpress-theme/.txt

[kestral@hackers.town]

@Edent Oh that's clever! A wordpress plugin?

[meyerweb@mastodon.social]

@Edent It cuts off right before the first code block, though. Markdown-to-HTML-to-strip glitch, maybe?

[edent@mastodon.social]

@Meyerweb
Probably! All very hacky code.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@Meyerweb fixed! Ta

[rgarner@mastodon.social]

@Edent <dusts off Lynx>

<wonders idly if could run Lynx on my Atari Lynx>

[mgifford@mastodon.social]

@Edent interesting proof of concept. But why? Text is great but you can't navigate with it.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@rgarner my regular blog works pretty well in Lynx. I use it quite often for testing.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@mgifford speeeeeeeeeeed!

[siliconraven@mastodon.social]

@Edent I wonder if there are other blogs where this is a thing

[mgifford@mastodon.social]

@Edent Hard to argue with that. Way more evironmentally friendly too.

[julian]

@[email protected] @[email protected] sure, Dan Luu's blog is one: http://danluu.com/