Index of Posts

Below you’ll find links to all the articles published on my site:

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  Change in Plans. Don’t Panic!
  Today, very appropriately falling on Towel Day (May 25th), saw the introduction of the next biggest thing on WordPress.com: the Starter Plan at US$ 60/year, joining the 2-month old Pro plan at US$ 180/year. HeadContinue reading “Change in Plans. Don’t Panic!”
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  The Perplexed WordPress.com User’s Guide to Openverse
  If you previously used Creative Commons (CC) Search, you may know that it was picked up by the WordPress.org project last year to continue its development. Here’s the official Creative Commons announcement. As of lateContinue reading “The Perplexed WordPress.com User’s Guide to Openverse”
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  Sharing is for Pizza-Reblog and Sharing Revisited
  Sharing other people’s website content has been around since the introduction of the internet and a simple copy/paste was usually the medium by which content was shared. Needless-to-say, this wasn’t ideal, especially when entire postsContinue reading “Sharing is for Pizza-Reblog and Sharing Revisited”
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  How to Build a Website From Scratch With WordPress.com in 10 Steps-via WordPress.com Go
  Originally posted on Go WordPress:
  Creating a website from scratch can be intimidating. This is especially true if you have never designed one before and your time is tight. When you have other things to…
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  Web Design All Looks the Same Now
  New research explains why. Much like midcentury modern has overtaken the American home, design homogeneity has descended upon the web. It comes in the form of particular typefaces, notably Georgia and Arial; the use ofContinue reading “Web Design All Looks the Same Now”
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  Full Site Editing arrives on WordPress.com
  Try Our New Tools for Creating Beautiful Sites February 4, 2022 Ben Sailer Last week we opened up limited access to a revolutionary array of new site editing tools that will transform how you create, edit,Continue reading “Full Site Editing arrives on WordPress.com”
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  WordPress Ramps Up Social Learning Events on Full Site Editing — WP Tavern
  WordPress is hosting a live online event tomorrow called “Beginner’s Guide to Full Site Editing.” Within three minutes of WordPress’ Twitter account tweeting about it, all 70 spaces were booked and the waiting list kickedContinue reading “WordPress Ramps Up Social Learning Events on Full Site Editing — WP Tavern”
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  Not just Block Themes are coming in WordPress 5.9
  WordPress 5.9 is set to launch on January 25, and many users will be in for a surprise. The upcoming release will be the most monumental shift in how the platform works since the introductionContinue reading “Not just Block Themes are coming in WordPress 5.9”
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  The Trouble with Widgets
  Back in mid-August, WordPress switched to a Block interface for adding and updating widgets. The announcement was made on August 10th on the WordPress.com News blog, which has 87M followers, but it still came asContinue reading “The Trouble with Widgets”
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  What The Heck is going on with Themes?
  Frankly speaking, there’s so much to cover here, let’s just dive in and see where it takes us. Please keep your Best Speculation monitors activated. The WordPress.com Great Premium Theme Cull of 2021 WordPress.com hasContinue reading “What The Heck is going on with Themes?”
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  Refreshed!
  Cooler weather arrived here almost exactly at the same time as our fall holidays and the change in weather was a blessing all by itself. (I don’t do well in hot weather, having grown upContinue reading “Refreshed!”
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  Fifteen Years-A Brief Retrospective
  WordPress.com reminded me yesterday that 15 years ago, on September 10th, I signed up for my WordPress.com account and started a blog (not this one). It’s hard for me to grok that a decade andContinue reading “Fifteen Years-A Brief Retrospective”
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  News – An Update on the Classic Editor Plugin – WordPress.org
  Welcome news on the WordPress Classic Editor end of life. “Before the release of WordPress 5.0 in 2018, the Classic Editor plugin was published to help ease the transition to the new block editor. AtContinue reading “News – An Update on the Classic Editor Plugin – WordPress.org”
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  The Doldrums
  Welcome to the hottest part of our year, August and September. It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. No, it’s the heat and humidity! During this time I’ll be rotating my older posts to theContinue reading “The Doldrums”
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  How to Use the WordPress Block Pattern Directory on WordPress.com
  On July 20, 2021, with the release of WordPress 5.8, the new WordPress Block Pattern Directory went live. In case you haven’t yet heard about WordPress Block Patterns or the WordPress Block Pattern Directory, we’llContinue reading “How to Use the WordPress Block Pattern Directory on WordPress.com”