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  • 2026mar15
    • Added webmention info to post meeta line
    • Add a loop to dedupe the category list in othercatposts before iterating it; sometimes parent is specified but it's already a category for the post so it got duplicated.
    • Add gradient to boxes on archive pages
    • Created Kupietools Prettier Excerpts plugin with github gist found at https://gist.github.com/swinggraphics/4ca551447bec03da281424c4ff85dcfd
    • Created Kupietools Prettier Excerpts plugin with github gist found at https://gist.github.com/swinggraphics/4ca551447bec03da281424c4ff85dcfd
    • Created Kupietools Prettier Excerpts plugin with github gist found at https://gist.github.com/swinggraphics/4ca551447bec03da281424c4ff85dcfd
    • Also changed othercatposts query args to use arrays instead of just values for post status and post type, supposedly this prevents unpublished posts from showing.
    • Somewhere othercatposts turned into noheader not producing one long list, it started separating even that by categories. Fixed.
    • Major overhaul of othercatposts shortcode: first, "type" parameters caused the entire processing to be handled totally separately, so parameters like "blogformat" didn't even work snce they were only handled in the branch that didn't handle "type", so changed it so everything uses same code. Then, it turned out that, surprise, Claudes last big round of fixes were wrong, and category sections were getting repeated on the blog posts view page, and things weren't always separated into categories correctly. I archived the version before changes on disk in Notebooks in case it's needed again.
  • 2026mar8
    • Also move to critical CSS: details > summary::before, details[open] > summary::before, details[open]:not(.postlistsubdetail),".postlistsubdetail[open] > .postlistsubsummary, .xnoclickmsg[open] > summary",.si-sidebar-widget { }
      .si-sidebar-widget > details,.si-sidebar-widget.si-widget.si-entry:first-child,.si-sidebar-widget hr,.si-widget, "summary > h1, summary > h2, summary > h3, summary > h4, summary > h5, summary > h6"
    • Annnnnnnd move these to critical css .post-category > .cat-links, .single #page .page-header .page-title, .single .page-header .entry-meta, .postdate,.si-page-header-wrapper > .entry-meta, .entry-title .titleprefix
    • Also move #content and #primary, #secondary { margin-top: 32px !important; } from noncritical to critical styles
    • Plus move .si-page-header-title, .si-page-header-title:not(body.page-id-11501 div.si-page-header-title):not(body.archive div.si-page-header-title), .si-single-title-in-page-header #page .page-header .si-page-header-wrapper, .titleprefix.postprefix to critical, need those too
    • Move .post-thumb.entry-media.thumbnail > .wp-post-image from noncritical to critical style too, need that also
    • Move body.single > #page > #main > .si-container > #primary.content-area > #content.site-content > .post-thumb.entry-media.thumbnail CSS to critical style so doesn't move after page loads
  • 2026mar7
    • Make nicer-looking Page Appearance Adjuster earthquake warning
    • Fix page appearance adjuster so script doesn't hit every slider input on the whole dang page
    • Add warning to KTWP Page Appearance Adjuster when earthquake is active that allows you to turn it off.
  • 2026mar6
    • Give localstorage variable a more unique name in KTWP page appearance adjuster
  • 2026mar4
    • Beautify css and make dontshowcategories an attribute of othercatposts shortcode

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