We would call this an aside: Like a Twitter status update, but written here at the site. Like a blog post, but much more brief, no front page title, no (easily accessed) single post, maybe.
This here is a featured post
First: This site layout experiment is based on the mobile-first example set by Brian Rieger and Stephanie Rieger at Yiibu. You should totally visit their site if you - like me- want to think and learn more deeply about what it means to have a 'responsive' site.
Second: This entry is a featured post, which means here that it's just the most recent post of any substantial length and substance, irrespective of the actual topic of the entry. The category assigned to featured posts is 'Longreads.' They'd normally be a lot longer than this, ha ha.
Third: Beyonce Knowles, goddamn.
Highlight of my life
I prefer using WP featured post image thumbnail whatever they’re calling it this week over Thesis post images because its easier to associate the image with the post without having it tied to a particular location in the post – or without having it appear in the post at all. Dude.
More on friggin’ highlights
I think the way I once dealt with highlights is the way I should proceed going forward. New, not so new, hardly new, then out altogether so far as front page display goes.
How to configure highlights?
Way back when I ran a blog with a self-designed, so-called ‘magazine’ layout, I arranged for posts to march in chronological order across and down the front page and into oblivion. Should I do that again? Because the idea seems kind of boring and limited to me now…