Henrik Sommerfeld

Tag: WordPress

Switching from WordPress to Hugo

I have recently migrated my blog from WordPress to Hugo. That is, switching from a database-based web content management system with loads of themes, plugins and a large user base to a statically generated site with no server-side logic and a small feature set where I must build most things myself. The switch was by no means necessary, I had cheap hosting at a web hotel I will still use for other sites after the migration, speed was good with WP Super Cache and so on. Read →

Bundling resources from plug-ins in my WordPress theme

Some time ago I got the idea to ramp up my skills in front-end web development and the tooling used outside my own world of SharePoint. I decided to create my own WordPress theme, but use as much of existing tooling and templates as I could. Sage got my attention, so I downloaded that and started to look into its components. This was all new territory for me with Bower, Gulp, PHP, NodeJS and so on. Read →

Using a Responsive CSS Grid with Relative Measures

When you build a web site on a CMS and a theme made by someone else you always have some limitations. For this blog I use WordPress and the Montezuma theme, and this is how I customised the default CSS grid options to my liking. These are the grid options you can choose from in version 1.2.4 of the Montezuma theme. Not bad at all, but if you want to use a responsive layout (and yes, you should) you have to choose between a fixed 960 px maximum width or use the 100% width option which can become ridiculous on large high resolution screens. Read →

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