Tag: wordpress

  • A Shoutout for WordPress

    19 Dec 2021 » 3 min read

    Back in June, I decided to migrate this blog from a self-managed installation of WordPress to WordPress.com. I’d done the self-manage thing for more than ten years, and I decided that I would rather spend my time writing instead of managing my site. I thought this would be a complicated move, something that would take…

  • Small Efficiencies in Workflow

    04 Jul 2021 » 3 min read

    With my recent plan to focus on my writing and improve my overall well-being (a.k.a. Project Sunrise), I have been hunting for small efficiencies in workflow that can have an outsized impact on my day. My morning routine takes about two and a half hours to complete. While developing the routine, I teased out actions…

  • Rich-text blogging on the iPad

    22 Dec 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta

    Prior to the most recent update to WordPress 3.3, I never had access to the rich-text editor when blogging on the iPad. Quite to my surprise this morning, when I went to write that last post, I discovered that the rich-text editor in WordPress now works on the iPad. This is a very big deal…

  • On black holes and WordPress

    13 Apr 2011 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta, science

    One of the cool things about being a science fiction writer is the cool stuff you learn in the name of “research.” I’ve been doing a lot of reading up on black holes, in particular, “subatomic” black holes and it is a fascinating subject. Some of what I have been reading are academic papers, which…

  • WordPress woes and JetPack to the rescue

    18 Mar 2011 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta

    For the first time since I started using a self-hosted version of WordPress well over a year ago, I had some trouble last night. Stats broke. Not permanently, you understand, and it had nothing to do with my installation. But I used the WordPress Stats plug-in which makes use of services on WordPress.com and apparently…

  • WordPress Oxymorons

    11 Mar 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta

    Okay, this is somewhat meta, but it cracked me up when I was starting to write a post this morning. I’m not sure why I never noticed it before:

  • Upgrade to WordPress 3.1 and Feedburner

    24 Feb 2011 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta

    Last night, I upgraded the site to the production release of WordPress 3.1 and there are some definite visible improvements. One of the most convenient is the improved ability at linking within the site. I haven’t fully investigated all of the other goodies packed into this release, but I must say that since I switched…