💭 What Others Said...
I've been reading a lot about blog interactions, community echos, and manual Webmentions recently. So I decided to jump on the bandwagon and roll my own.
Not wanting to be outdone by the rest of the blogging community, and of course, wanting to be a part of the it too, I decided to roll my own version of community echos. But I’m lazy and decided to do it a little different than other people (and also because Kirby is awesome).
I love that Joel continues to work with Jekyll after all these years, and props to him for implementing his manual Webmentions process. But I know I’m too lazy for all that messing around, so I decided to partially automate my “What others said…” section.
I added a community replies section to the dashboard for my posts. I then created a little Kirby plugin that automagically pulls the post title and description when I save the entry. Here’s what it looks like:
All I need to do then is add the author’s name and the date the post was published, and bingo, bango, bongo. I have a community reply. This info is pulled from the page’s meta data. Unfortunately there’s no standard for adding an author name or published date to the meta, so I stuck with those 2 only. ☹️
If there’s any community replies added to a post, they will appear in a card, right after the content, like this:
I’m still not 100% sold on how it looks yet, so I may play around with the design a little. But the nuts and bolts of a nice little feature are there.
I now just need to go looking for people’s reply posts! Wish me luck…