A Middleman blog is made up of several different partials.
To create the front-end of a blog the following are required, a blog name is required to be passed to list, archive and pagination. I prefer to set this variable in the front-matter.
| Title | URL |
|---|---|
| Template | http://geedmo.com/codecanyon/elemento/bootstrap3/blog.html |
| Middleman blogging | http://middlemanapp.com/blogging |
| Metronic theme | http://keenthemes.com/preview/index.php?theme=metronic_frontend |
| Schema | http://schema.org/BlogPosting |
| Markup | https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper/u/0/ |
| Task | Date |
|---|---|
| Document Facebook / Twitter / Google front matter requirements | |
| Complete Older and Newer links to other articles | |
| Complete related articles section | |
| Author Biographies and Photo - micro format | |
| Table of contents should look better - collapsible - use JS | |
| Table of contents using hash does not work - directs to home path | |
| Provide a blank / random image if one is not found to keep the design | |
| Create a hover over state for the article to slightly grey it out | |
| Add in some filtering for popular - most commented on | |
| Add in search - Add in tags - Add in social links - Facebook like and share, tweet and pin - Add in report page button | |
| Add in video / image - could be carousel - Add in title - Add in price - Add in content - Add in Ribbons on some products | |
| Add in Trending Today - Add in Buy Now - Add in Add to Wish list - Add in Comments - Add in related products - Add in newsletter | |
| Article list partial should not be in this template folder |