Self-Publishing Consultant and Book and Website Designer
A few days ago something happened. Or rather, stopped happening. No longer did emails announcing a new blog post arrive. After a lot of poking around the cause was found. Go to the upper right corner of WordPress and click on your profile picture. This will take you to a page called “My Profile.” On...
So what is my assessment of the Block Editor as it is in March of 2021? Today's Block Editor seems less buggy but no less cumbersome to use. Over the past weeks I have duplicated the home page of Hinterlandspress.com using only the Block editor. The result was mostly successful and a close match. To give credit where it is due.
There is a discussion ( here ) that starts with “On June 1 we’ll be retiring our older WordPress.com editor and transitioning to the more recent (and more powerful) WordPress block editor.” But that is only true in the broadest sense. The blog post seems intentionally misleading to ‘force’ folks into using the not so...
I have been doing consulting for many years. For the past few years my desktop of choice has been Mint Linux. Both my wife and I work almost exclusively on our Linux machines. I have been looking for a Linux friendly client contact and invoicing alternative for a while. I have been torn between writing...
If you are new to using WordPress, the difference between pages and posts seems a bit amorphous. Heck, even for long-term users it can seem a bit difficult to wrap your head around. This is my take on how they are different.
Earlier this year two artists, whom I knew casually, asked me to help them design a new website for them. Actually two sites. Chris and Tom Higgins had been sharing a commercial artist site, and they wanted to have separate and more unique sites. Designing a site to represent artists and their work takes on...
The Aberration theme from Shaped Pixels of Vancouver, Canada is minimalist and elegant on the outside but has an 'everything but the kitchen sink' approach on the inside. The theme is billed as a Photographic and Personal Blogging theme. It could just as easily be the backbone for a business or magazine site.This theme is...
One of my clients wanted some help maintaining a page on her site that used Page Builder. Since the last post mentioned Page Builder it seemed right to post the quick intro sheet for editing text in a page that uses Page Builder.
When designing the look for a website using WordPress, the first thing I do is see if I can find an existing theme that has most of what I want for a look. This is the starting point. Once I have a starting theme there is always some customization that is needed to get it...