**New Author Frontmatter Fields:**
- `author_name`: Override the default site author on a per-post basis
- `author_email`: Specify custom author email information
**Intelligent Fallback System:**
- **Custom Author**: Both name and email override defaults
- **Name Only**: Just specify author name, email remains empty
- **Default Fallback**: Empty fields automatically use site configuration
**Author Index Pages:**
- **Main Authors Index**: Located at `/authors/` with post counts for each author
- **Individual Author Pages**: Dedicated pages at `/authors/author-slug/` for each author
- **Conditional Navigation**: "Authors" menu appears only when multiple authors exist (configurable threshold)
- **Visual Consistency**: Reuses existing tag page styling for familiar user experience
**Complete Integration:**
- **Schema.org JSON-LD**: Proper structured data for search engines
- **RSS Feeds**: Dublin Core `dc:creator` elements with full author attribution
- **Footer Copyright**: Dynamic author information in copyright notices
- **Index Listings**: "by Author Name" attribution throughout the site
- **Enhanced Sitemap**: Author pages automatically included for better SEO
**Configuration Options:**
ENABLE_AUTHOR_PAGES=false # Enable/disable author pages (default: false)
SHOW_AUTHORS_MENU_THRESHOLD=2 # Minimum authors to show menu (default: 2)
ENABLE_AUTHOR_RSS=false # Author-specific RSS feeds (default: false)
This release includes **BSSG Themes 0.30**, a comprehensive improvement of all 50 included themes focusing on performance, accessibility, and cross-platform compatibility.
**Performance Optimizations:**
- **External Font Dependencies Removed**: Eliminated Google Fonts and base64 encoded fonts across 35+ themes
- **System Font Stacks**: Comprehensive fallback fonts for better performance and reliability
- **Animation Optimization**: Added `@media (prefers-reduced-motion)` support to all themes
- **Mobile Performance**: 40-60% improvement in rendering speed on mobile devices
- **Backdrop Filter Optimization**: Reduced blur amounts and added mobile fallbacks
**Accessibility Enhancements:**
- **WCAG AA Compliance**: Tried to achieve 100% compliance across all themes
- **Keyboard Navigation**: Complete focus management with visible outlines
- **Screen Reader Support**: Enhanced semantic HTML structure and ARIA attributes
- **Reduced Motion**: Full support for users who prefer reduced motion
**Cross-Platform Compatibility:**
- **Text Browser Support**: Full functionality in lynx, w3m, and links browsers
- **Progressive Enhancement**: Graceful degradation for older browsers
- **Icon Fallbacks**: ASCII alternatives for Unicode symbols and decorative elements
**Critical Theme Fixes:**
- **Glassmorphism**: Complete redesign for maximum contrast and readability
- **Vaporwave**: Optimized neon effects and improved mobile performance
- **Flat**: Fixed critical invisible post title bug
- **Retro Computing Themes**: Enhanced authenticity while maintaining modern accessibility
**Improved Edit Command:**
- Fixed filename generation in edit mode (`-n` flag) that was causing build failures
- Clean filename formatting prevents awk errors with spaces in filenames
- Consistent approach across all BSSG operations
**Better Build Options:**
- Fixed `--force-rebuild` option that wasn't working as documented
- Both `--force-rebuild` and `-f` now work correctly as aliases
- Improved help text and command consistency
**Enhanced Post Editor:**
- Fixed datetime-local input showing GMT instead of local time
- Better date/time handling for content creation
- Improved user experience in the standalone editor
**RSS Feed Enhancements:**
- **Fixed XML Escaping**: Proper escaping of ampersands and special characters in RSS titles and descriptions
- **Image Caption Fix**: Eliminated duplicate `<figcaption>` elements in RSS feeds
- **Valid XML Output**: RSS feeds now validate properly with all RSS parsers
**Unicode and Internationalization:**
- **German Umlaut Handling**: Consistent Unicode character handling in URL slugs across all interfaces
- **Comprehensive Transliteration**: Support for German, French, Spanish, Polish, and other European languages
- **Cross-Interface Consistency**: Uniform slug generation in command-line tools, web editor, and admin interface
**Better Incremental Builds:**
- **New Author Detection**: Fixed caching issue where new authors weren't detected during incremental builds
- **Author Page URLs**: Fixed incorrect URL generation that didn't honor configured `URL_SLUG_FORMAT`
- **Dependency Tracking**: Improved rebuild logic for author-related content
**Enhanced Post Metadata:**
- **Improved Visual Presentation**: Better typography and spacing for post metadata banners
- **Semantic HTML**: Proper `<time>` elements with datetime attributes for accessibility and SEO
- **Responsive Design**: Metadata that scales appropriately across devices
**Sitemap Integration:**
- Author pages automatically included in `sitemap.xml` when enabled
- Proper priority levels for SEO optimization
- Conditional inclusion based on configuration
**Better File Structure:**
- Enhanced templates system with better placeholder replacement
- Improved navigation generation with conditional menu display
- Standardized component patterns across the codebase
**Theme Compatibility:**
- All 50 themes maintain their visual identity while gaining performance and accessibility improvements
- No breaking changes for existing installations
- Themes now work excellently across all browsers and devices
**Multi-Author Migration:**
- Existing single-author sites continue working unchanged
- Author fields are optional and fall back to site configuration
- No migration required for existing content
**Performance Recommendations:**
- Themes now work optimally without external dependencies
- Mobile experience significantly improved across all themes
- This command builds the static site and then starts a simple Bash HTTP server (`scripts/server.sh`) to serve the files from the output directory.
- **Dynamic `SITE_URL`**: When the `server` command initiates a build, it temporarily overrides the `SITE_URL` configuration to match the local server's address (e.g., `http://localhost:PORT`). This ensures that all generated links and assets paths are correct for local previewing.
- **Command-line Options**:
- `--port <PORT>`: Specifies the port for the server to listen on.
- `--host <HOST>`: Specifies the host/IP address for the server.
- `--no-build`: Skips the build step and starts the server with the existing content in the output directory.
- **Configurable Server Defaults**:
- The default port and host for the `./bssg.sh server` command can now be configured in `config.sh` (via `BSSG_SERVER_PORT_DEFAULT` and `BSSG_SERVER_HOST_DEFAULT`) and overridden in `config.sh.local`.
- The help message for the `server` command displays these configured default values.
- The `bssg.sh` main script was updated to include the `server` command logic, argument parsing, and help text.
- `scripts/build/config_loader.sh` was updated to load and export the new server default configuration variables (`BSSG_SERVER_PORT_DEFAULT`, `BSSG_SERVER_HOST_DEFAULT`).
- `config.sh` was updated with the new default server configuration variables.
Allow a custom pages/index.md (with slug "index") that will be shown as homepage. This allows to create a custom homepage for the website, without the "Latest Posts" list. (adapted by Tom's patch)
Render automatically generated post excerpts (used when no explicit `description` is set in frontmatter) as HTML instead of raw markdown on list pages (index, tags, archives).
Partial rewrite of the caching code, index generations, etc. Now only the modified tags and/or archives will be regenerated, speeding up the rebuild time.
Many, many other bugfixes
- Refactor build system by splitting build.sh into modular scripts.
- Add configuration options for RSS item limit, timezone display, and automatic rebuilds after post/edit commands.
- Introduce features: localized "Back to Top" link, optional 'lastmod' frontmatter for posts, and a helpful 'vi' exit message easter egg.
