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Updates for the Jednotka WordPress theme

17 Feb 2019 13:27 | Geplaatst door Marcel

The Jednotka WordPress theme was for some time quite a popular theme for WordPress. However, the last update for it was published in December 2014, and there were no more subsequent updates. That basically meant it wasn’t compatible with PHP 7, and it broke down on anything that recent.

Up untill October 2018 it was still for sale on that Envato website. To me that was quite in bad taste. People would buy a theme that wasn’t even working on current PHP versions. Apparently that is how you make money, by cheating people out of it.

Last October I met someone at a local WordPress meetup who was using the Jednotka theme on het website, but had problems with it. A lot of admin pages broke down and the WordPress dashboard was quite useless.

I helped her with a few bugfixes and updates for the this theme that make it work with PHP 7.1 and 7.2. You can find that updated theme over at Codeberg.

2x Peugeot demi-course

13 Aug 2017 17:43 | Geplaatst door Marcel

Since recently I own 2 Peugeot bikes, both demi-course, or halfway roadrace bikes.

The green one is probably a PL-50. I cannot find this specific model in the brochures, but looking at the decals it is probably from 1975, 1976 or 1977.
The handlebar with guidonnet brake levers is a bit remarkable. In France they used this type of brake lever more often from the thirties up untill the seventies.

The red model used to have a straight handlebar, which has been replaced by an eighties dropbar by Peugeot.

Both bikes ride nice and plush.

Since recently I own 2 Peugeot bikes, both demi-course, or halfway roadrace bikes. The green one is probably a PL-50. I cannot find this specific model in the brochures, but looking at the decals it is probably from 1975, 1976…
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How to create a personal calendar with WordPress

19 Apr 2017 14:00 | Geplaatst door Marcel

For the last few years I have used Owncloud, which is a full-featured hosting solutions for files, contact, calender, etc. It turned out I only use the calendar part of it, and found the complexity of that full suite a bit too much. Upgrading always gave me issues. I was planning to switch to Nextcloud, which is basically the same thing, but I decided against that. If I am switching anyway, I could just as well switch to something more to the point and with simplicity included.

First I played with a real calendering server, Radicale. I combined that with a web GUI in the form of AgenDAV. Both simple implementations and seemingly what I wanted. But I had some integration issues, not everything worked right, like moving items to a different day, or editing an existing item.

So I started looking for a WordPress solution. All I need in a calendar solution is:

Simple interface per month with tiles for each day.
Frontend editing.
Only one user.
Each item has just a day and title. A color per category would be a nice extra.
Authentication with a user/password form.

What I do not need:

Multiple users.
Public or shared calendars.
Contacts.
Vcards, caldav, ical integration.
Shared files.

Plugins

I found the Calendar Event Multi View plugin to best fit my needs. You can easily add a shortcode with a calendar to a page, in my case the frontpage of the site. It is also easy to enable frontend editing. It just works the way I was looking for.

Theme

The theme I made a child theme for was Twenty Sixteen. I called it Personal Calendar and it is available on Codeberg. It has some custom CSS and adds a grey Calendar color scheme to Twenty Sixteen.
The page template has a login form for non-logged-in users, and after login shows the calender.
Everything else has been stripped from the templates and it is all simply aimed at being a good calender theme.

Result

The result is just a one page design with a calendar on the frontend of that site. It lives on a personal subdomain.

Gazelle Special, 1998, racing red

08 Dec 2016 15:29 | Geplaatst door Marcel

Since this fall I own a semi-classic Gazelle Special as a touringbike. The Gazelle Special came after the Gazelle Champion Mondial AA-Special, which was made from 1969 till 1995. For a while during the 70s and 80s about one third of roadbikes sold in the Netherlands was a Gazelle. Steel roadbikes were made by Gazelle up to 2002. After this it was only aluminium and occasionally carbon and titanium. Nowadays Gazelle doesn’t make any roadbikes anymore, they leave that up to sister companies like Cervélo and Focus.
This is the Trapezium-frame which was made from 1998 till 2002, with thicker tubing around the bottom-bracket. The front fork has a bend and threads which was made up to 1998. That makes it probable that this bike is from 1998.

The previous and first owner got the frame as serviceframe for a cracked aluminium frame. It was built up with the parts from his old bike, a Shimano 600 groupset and Mavic rims. The Shimano 600 headset is still in the frame.
Now the bike is built up with a Campagnolo Centaur 9-speed. Not completely period-correct, the group is from 2002.
The rims are Campagnolo Omega with at the front an Omega 19 and on the back an Omega 20. This leaves room for improvement.
The rest of the parts are made up of a Selcof aero seatpost, a Fizik Aliante saddle, a 3ttt Record 84 quill stem and a Cinelli Nerve ergo handlebar.
And yes, the tires do not match. Plan is to first use this set and then get a nice set of classic tires.