{"id":138197,"date":"2019-03-10T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T01:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138197"},"modified":"2019-03-10T21:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T03:02:44","slug":"the-old-blogging-order-changeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/10\/the-old-blogging-order-changeth.html","title":{"rendered":"The Old Blogging Order Changeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Warning: Dull stuff about how I blog follows …<\/em><\/p>\n

So with the impending demise of Google+ (the first major piece of which — disabling the Notification Bell — went into place this week), I have bid that platform a sad, frustrated, irked, whatcha-gonna-do farewell, and shifted wholly into my new mode of posting:<\/p>\n

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    1. Write it in WordPress.<\/li>\n
    2. Cross-post automagically to Twitter (with the “WP to Twitter” plugin)<\/li>\n
    3. Cross-post automagically to Pluspora (with the “WP to diaspora*” plugin)<\/li>\n
    4. Watch comments in all three places.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I also have the alternative of posting in Twitter; I have a Zapier routine to cross-post that into WP as a draft, whence I can clean it up a bit and post it in WP, cross-posted to Pluspora.<\/p>\n

      That basically means my readers can read me in three places (woo woo!) with minimal effort on my part, and I can keep my content (if not comments) canonical on my blog for when one of those other platforms vanishes into the ether.<\/p>\n

      (No, I’m not bitter.)<\/p>\n

      As part of that effort, I decided it was time to do some cleaning up on my blog. I’ve been running an obsolete version of Thesis as my theme for a while, and that’s cause me some technical grief now and again. And if I’m going to catch up to the current version of WordPress (5.1), I’ll need something compatible with that and that’s got all the modern bits and bobs and responsive design and all that.<\/p>\n

      I eventually decided to go with WP’s own Twenty Sixteen theme, with a few mods to the CSS to make it look closer to how I like it. It seems to be performing well, and while I have some under-the-hood things to tweak on it, and will probably continue to modify the styling, and while I’m sure there’s some early-days blog stuff that now is kind of fugly in it, it seems ready for me to use.<\/p>\n

      (If anyone spots anything that looks broken, please do let me know.)<\/p>\n

      Anyhow, that’s how I spent\u00a0my<\/em> Sunday afternoon. How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Boring blogging stuff coming up. You have been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,3],"tags":[1787],"class_list":["post-138197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging-technical","category-blogging","tag-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/journalist-and-typewriter.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24493,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/the-state-of-the-greater-three-star-dave-internet-entertainment-hegemony.html","url_meta":{"origin":138197,"position":0},"title":"The State of the Greater Three-Star Dave Internet Entertainment Hegemony","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-11 8:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So it's been a couple of months since the Fall of Google Reader and the Rise of Google Plus frelled up the delicate ecosystem of content generation and sharing and management here in the Great DDtB Entertainment Network. 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