Blog improvements in the hopper. Hope to have them done by General Assembly. A good way for readers to subscribe to new posts by email. By request. A new, non-generic header image. A new body text that supports Esperanto. (So you don’t see question marks in anta?en or ali?ilo.) A way — widget, workflow? —… Continue reading Blog improvements planned
Category: Blog administration
Next up on the blog
Next up on the blog… A couple of more articles on morning prayer before I give the theme a rest (for a while) how to simplify the order of worship creation process getting ready for General Assembly
This blog theme is a WordPress default, and I’m seeing it (Twenty Thirteen) too often. Will be making a “child theme” derived from it: first to change the typeface, then the header image.
Some metrics for this blog
One of my assumptions behind this blog is that if I intend to do it right, I should do with some goals in mind. (I can understand why some people might think this is extreme for hobby, but it’s how I can describe it as a service.) Because churches move at a glacial pace, I’m… Continue reading Some metrics for this blog
Want to learn WordPress for church site development?
I’ve recycled my liberalchristian.net domain to a fresh (hours old!) WordPress install, to serve as a church website for an imaginary church. I want to invite three or four people, particularly those with church responsibilities and few local resources, to walk through the process of (modestly) customizing and managing such a site. My added goal… Continue reading Want to learn WordPress for church site development?
Taking blogging requests
I’m taking the train to Boston tomorrow in anticipation of the installation of close friend and colleague Victoria Weinstein (whom you may also know from her blog persona) as the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn, Swampscott, Massachusetts. I like trains because I can rest, read, listen to music and write with… Continue reading Taking blogging requests
My blog workflow
This is blog post #3,500; I’ve been writing over almost eleven years. I thought worthwhile to talk about how I blog now. I try to keep several blog posts written and scheduled for publication. Right now my goal is six scheduled posts at any given time. Just because I try to publish something every day,… Continue reading My blog workflow
Why I blog
Be sure to see the comments, below. The group of Unitarian Universalist bloggers on Facebook have been meditating on a common questions, one of which is “why do you blog?” Some of the reasons I blog are predictable: to muse aloud, to keep notes for later use or to promote something-or-other. It is not a… Continue reading Why I blog
If you’ve putting off that church website…
If you’ve putting off that church website, there’s another, easy option. In the amateur-affirming, all-in style of the long-gone GeoCities, NeoCities gives space away to anonymous users. Not much space — 10 megabytes, now — but that’s plenty for a carefully crafted static church or project site. I’ll be dabbling here: http://universalist.neocities.org/
Quick lessons for web site builders
Or perhaps I should say, “quickly learn some tools because a part of the church website isn’t doing what it should and I can’t find help” or “I don’t want to sound like an idiot when meeting with the web person we got.” Or, “I want a hobby and jet aircraft are expensive.” Don’t Fear… Continue reading Quick lessons for web site builders