This summer WordPress.com announced a new feature that seemed promising. I tried it, but I don’t think it will work for me. Here’s why. I use WordPress Personal, and have always had the option to upgrade to WordPress Premium in order to do sales. The problem is, all I want to sell are a fewContinue reading “WordPress Payments Block — Promising, Yet No Thanks.”
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More Fun with Blocks
As promised, I’m writing about my experiences updating my blog to an author website with a static home page and learning WordPress’s new Block Editor. I never was able to get the image carousel that I wanted the other day. I could use an image gallery, but the options for linking with that are quiteContinue reading “More Fun with Blocks”
Fun with Blocks
No, I haven’t reverted to childhood to start playing with wood blocks. This weekend, after taking the plunge and changing the theme of my blog (and after second-guessing myself and exploring several more themes, only to settle for the one I initially chose, at least for now), I dug into revising some of my pagesContinue reading “Fun with Blocks”
Changing WordPress Themes
Now that I’ve dived in and am revising my blog, I might as well write about the process. The first step was to change the theme from “Spring Loaded,” which was so old that WordPress had retired it, but let me keep using it, to “Exford.” This promised to be an easy process. I wentContinue reading “Changing WordPress Themes”
Changes Coming to My Blog
Recently, I realized that I’ve been blogging for over a decade, since July 2009 to be precise. In that time, my blog and my readership has grown quite a bit, but the blog’s format has remained unchanged. In that time, I’ve also published two books of poetry and a textbook, and I’ve started an MFAContinue reading “Changes Coming to My Blog”
Dealing with Spam on WordPress
For a while now, I’ve been using the WordPress desktop app instead of the web interface. Mostly that’s gone well, but one serious flaw is in handling spam comments. I still get many spam comments filtered out (thank you Akismet), but it’s easy to forget about them. This morning, I happened to check, and foundContinue reading “Dealing with Spam on WordPress”
The Life of a Blog Post
Today, I want to take a little trip down my own geek highway. Every now and then (maybe more often than I’m willing to admit), I check the stats on my blog. It’s one of the features I like about WordPress, by the way. I can see who’s reading what and sometimes that affects whatContinue reading “The Life of a Blog Post”
Kendall Dunkelberg 