Photos grid on your blog

- This is a great enhancement. I love having a page for specifically featuring photos.

This is awesome! Kudos to @cleverdevil for this much-needed feature on Micro.Blog. I love that its implementation is so simple. One more nail in the coffin of trying to wean myself away from Instagram.

@cleverdevil This looks super cool, but I’m not entirely sure how to make this work on my site. I created a photos page and copied the Microgram HTML into that page. However, the page just loads “Not Found”.

I’m sure this is entirely user error, but some more detailed instructions for the novice user would be great. Can’t wait to get this on my site though.

@cleverdevil .... very very cool ... will be implementing soon. Thankyou to you both.

@craigmcclellan It might take a little while to create the page. That is my guess, based on my experience with On This Day. 🤔

@craigmcclellan @cleverdevil It might not appear right away for sites with many posts. Give it a little longer and see if it shows up. I'd like to improve this since I have years of photos as well.

@macgenie thanks!

thanks

@craigmcclellan Takes a little while. Check back after 5 mins and it should work.

@cleverdevil Seconding everyone else! This is such a great add-on to the platform. A note for everyone else, it does take some time for the page to propagate and become active on your site.

Just the add page, add the JS and then make a cup of coffee or drink a glass of water. It’ll be up by the time you get back. 😊👍🏼

@thaddeushunt Thanks! ☕

@pratik you're welome! It was easy to build, thanks to building Micro.blog on top of open feed standards. 🎉

@JohnPhilpin you're more than welcome :)

This looks great!

@thaddeushunt glad you're enjoying it!

I love this feature!

@cleverdevil I'm happy to offer microgram.blog if somebody wants to but a public site with microgram.blog/<m.b.username> or build out something with this.

I bought the domain intending to do instagram-like browsing interface for people's photos, but lacking photo feed in the past and lack of time, it never materialized. I was going to let the domain go when it expires at the end of the year.

super cool. I might have to hack this for self-hosted Jekyll sites.

Thanks @cleverdevil. This worked great!

& @cleverdevil Thank you for this. I look forward to trying it out later.

@cleverdevil love how you click on the image to get to your post .... double checking ... is it right that it only picks one image per post?

@JohnPhilpin for now, it’s a limitation that it only shows one image per post. Making it show all images requires some changes that would need to make at the Micro.blog level.

@cleverdevil all good .. thankyou ... making sure it wasn’t me ... because it often is.

@clindsey It should be loading now. Thanks!

any news on when we can create our own M.b themes? Would love to port my blog's theme over: kahlillechelt.com

@ka It's a priority but I don't have a date set yet. What are you using to build your current site?

oooh, this is very cool. Loving the @cleverdevil page enhancement also. Love the solutions which keep coming from the community here. Definitely a different sense of ownership than other social networks 👏🏾🙌🏾

I am using Hugo but that could be easily transferred to Jekyll.

I was wondering: did you ever consider using Hugo instead of Jekyll? My guess is it would save you a lot of resources and speed up site generation quite a lot.

@ka Yes, I've recently been evaluating moving to Hugo more seriously. The photos feature we added puts some additional stress on performance. I think it's time to change this (while still preserving existing themes).

it’s a good move I think. I’ve been impressed with Hugo and it has been around for a while.

+1 for Hugo. Fast, easy to use, and very flexible. I’ve tried a number of static-site generators and it’s my favourite by far (even though my language of choice is PHP, though knowing Go is not required).

@yesdevnull Thanks! I've heard good things but just need to finish testing that everything we need will work well in Hugo (and be faster).

absolutely, you’d hate to do all the leg work only to find it made no improvements (or slowed down further). Hugo’s Custom Shortcuts and Pipes were really useful for me.