You Gotta Love Wordpress and Atahualpa

Yet again I have retooled the web site–with more plans down the line. Today’s exercise was one in which I took the latest blog posts and put them in their own section, instead of having them located on the home page. It was incredibly easy using built-in Wordpress settings and some of the theme options for Atahualpa. It makes the site feel more like a, well, a site, and less like just a blog. It took all of thirty minutes.

Now Reading

Rather than write about writing, or how my WIP is going, or actually work on my WIP, I spent pretty much an entire day listing the books that I’m currently reading in the sidebar. Had I coded it by hand in a simple widget, it would have taken about 30 minutes. But why do that when I can spend a whole day on it?

PHP 5?! Oh please.

Well, after many hours of fiddling with plugins, deactivating them, deleting them, etc. and after chmod-ing my various directories through ssh (thank you, fabulous husband and unix king) to 777 (I really hate that, by the way), and then chmod-ing them back again (phew!), and then resetting the Wordpress theme back to the default Kubrick, I was about to give up and just do a complete re-install of Wordpress 2.8.4.

Step 9. Creating My Online Platform, Part 10 of 11

As I awaited word from the editor at Simon & Schuster regarding my mighty tome, I decided to create what is today called an online platform, but at the time was just a web site, when blogs didn’t exist. It wasn’t something I was doing just for fun, although I did enjoy it. Creating a web site was one of things that I had said I would do in my proposal as part of my promotion and marketing plan.

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