Benjamin Lu

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Reading a Theme Through Its Edge Cases

Retrospective web development exercise for the 2014 archive.

A theme demo usually uses carefully chosen titles and photos. To learn what the theme does with ordinary content, make three test posts. Give one a very long title, leave the second without a photo, and put a long URL in the third.

Open all three in the archive and on their own pages. Compare what happens in a narrow window. If you find a broken layout, keep the post that triggered it around as a test case. Next time you change the theme, you’ll have something better to check than a homepage with perfectly sized content.