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Reviews of interfaces, tools, and publishing practices.

What WordPress Widgets Still Do Well

Widgets are sometimes dismissed as an old WordPress mechanism. Used carefully, they remain a practical way to keep a publication’s frame editable. A text widget can introduce the site. A menu widget can provide a second route through the archive. A recent-posts or categories widget can keep the context column alive without adding custom template […]

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The Feed as a Default Interface

The feed is convenient, but convenience is not the same as orientation. A chronological list tells us what happened recently. It does not necessarily tell us what belongs together, what deserves a slower reading, or where a long-running series begins. A publication can keep its feed while giving the archive other entrances. Categories, series pages, […]

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