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  • Coming Changes and Christmas

    Coming Changes and Christmas

    The 3 c’s. I have my Christmas shopping done. I have all gifts bought and ready for the day. I had to decrease my spending this year, but hopefully everyone will understand.

    I have plenty changes coming to the website. Early next year you will see them if you come to the website. I plan on discontinuing my Inmotion Hosting Shared Hosting plan. I have been with them for 9 years. I probably had very minimal impact on their server. The only thing I mainly use is the email service part of it.

    I am going to host my email somewhere else. I will move my domain away from SquareSpace and I am moving my blog to Micro.Blog. I think this will be more cost effective, and streamline my flow. I have heard great things about Micro.blog and what really sold me was the fact that they will import my WordPress posts and images.

    I am moving away from WordPress for several reasons. It is a little hard to use. Cost way to much for a personal site to have everything I would like. The third reason is significant. I believe this fight with Automattic and WP Engine will intensify. The owner seems like a slightly saner version of Elon Musk. I am so over Elon.

    Well, that is it for now look forward to things looking different and feeling different in the few months.

    Merry Christmas everyone!

  • Trying to dust off the website

    Trying to dust off the website

    I am trying to do a little updating to the website and making sure everything is working. I am finding that things don’t work the way I want them to. It is kind of hard when you aren’t a website savant. I am working my way through I believe.

    If you look at the site you would say it is pretty minimal at best. On the back-end making sure things post correctly and where I want them to is a little bit of like cooking. I am layering on all the plugins to make a post once publish everywhere works. Just like in cooking you want to layer on the flavors. Cooking and coding something that they have in common. I think am I much better at cooking then coding.

  • New Integrations

    WordPress has tied into Mastodon. So I am going to try that. Lets see if it works. Just another way where I can follow myself :).

    No seriously this seems big and another step away from Twitter.

  • Still Learning

    I have spent all day learning how to update my website myself. It has been interesting and I hope it is improving. I am learning that WordPress has a lot to offer. After I get this down I my learn and create a completely static website. Well, that is it for now and the most I have worked on my website in years and blogged in a long time.

  • Trying to learn WordPress by trial and error

    I am finally trying to learn WordPress I have had this website for a long time. WordPress has some interesting features but you know what it would be easier if they had sort learning videos from the company. I wish there was a full-feature free personal theme too.

    I so miss Microsoft Frontpage. I could really use that program and it was really easy to understand.

    I will tell you another source that has been helping me ChatGPT. I cannot believe how useful it is.