I had a little time in the motel room yesterday afternoon and evening. I used that time to play with the blog settings and reconfigure it. Did you know WordPress removed the Blogroll list feature a few versions ago? I didn’t until I went looking for it in this installation. All my other blogs had a blogroll entry or two, even though I’ve hidden most of them in recent years, so the option was grandfathered in as I updated, so I never noticed.
I spent a few days looking for a plug-in, and I decided to use the Simple Links plug-in. It’s been updated recently even though it wasn’t guaranteed to work with this version of WordPress (so far, it seems fine). I’m using the free version, and for now, that’s adequate. There are some things I’d like to do differently, so I’ll see if there’s another plug-in that might work better or if the Premium version of this one will do the job. If not, this is fine for now.
I changed themes. I use a Weaver Pro theme on my other blogs. That’s been superseded by the Weaver Extreme theme. I’m experimenting with their free version for now, but once I get things figured out, I will probably spring for the paid version to support them (it does not convert nicely from the old version to the new version, if with their converter Plug-In, so I’ll wind up making note of my settings and manually inputting them when I convert my other blogs). When they first came out with this new version, their pay structure was not as amenable to my multiple (non-income-producing) blogs as the new version is. Once you learn where the settings are, it’s very configurable.
I like the Papyrus font for the Blog Title and Tag Line, but for the post and sidebar texts, I felt it was too hard to read, so I tried to find a compatible font. I am not quite satisfied with that look and feel yet. Expect more subtle changes, but I hope it’s readable not
The header photo is from my hayfield at sunset back in December 2004. I love the lighting and the peacefulness that photo captured.
I also realized that even though I created the list sign up for people to subscribe to each blog entry, I forgot to actually configure and set up the blog broadcast. Oops. I set up a rudimentary configuration last night. I’ll tweak it later, because I’m not completely satisfied with it.
I downloaded and printed Week 3 materials this morning. Pretty exciting stuff. Three more weeks on the road. Looking forward to getting back home after that, but these three weeks are important, too.