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Ashur has a lovely website and a brilliant eye for detail (look at the URL!). I have been replying to folks' blog posts every now and then over the years, notably in #JulyReply season so I jumped at this nice bit of design work. Basically inspired by social media threads, Ashur added an indicator to relevant posts to show it's part of a series or an ongoing conversation. As the whole point of this World Wide Web thing is to connect and converse with other humans, I'm planning on doing quite a bit more of it in future. With that in mind, I created a new reply post type that is a build on a standard post type. I added custom meta to house the details of the post I'm responding to and an "eyebrow" (I think that's the technical term) to the h1 to surface those details. You can see it in action at the top of this page! Custom Frontmatter for post details layout: replyorigin_title: "Adding UI for replies between blogs"origin_author: "Ashur Cabrera"origin_url:…

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