So, amongst family stuff and some work on another project, today has been spent trying out some themes and plugins for here, as well as getting used to the Guttenburg way of doing things with WP – which, I have to say, is a bit of a major step backwards, as far as I can tell.
But, I digress.
One of the things I’ve always hated about WP is the way that themes pretty much never work the way you want them to, straight out of the box.
And worse, it sometimes seems as if each theme does things entirely it’s own way, meaning that learning the ins and outs of one theme is almost entirely worthless when it comes to another.
You are left with a pretty bland looking page until you find that one setting that suddenly turns everything in to something stunning.
If the actual content on the page is a load of rubbish, hey, at least the site looks good, amiright?
So yeah, the theme in place at the moment is entirely temporary, until I find something I can live with.
As for apps – well, one of my other (possibly my main) projects involves a lot of photos, for which I’ve never really found a decent way of integrating into galleries and albums, at least without spending an inordinate amount of money.
So, I’ve been working on trying to find something that would work, without much success so far.
And then, there is the actual, you know, writing side of things, the single reason for the existence of this site and it’s domain.
And that… isn’t going so well.
I have stuff I want to write about, but diving headlong into some weighty subjhects just seems wrong, but I don’t particularly want to start with something light, either, so trying to pin something down isn’t as easy as I would have hoped.
I have something fairly weighty planned for a week on Monday (Note to self – schedule that one!), and I have plans for a music video anti-advent calendar for December, but apart from that, nothing has been finalised.
There is one piece I’ve written fairly recently that I am actually almost happy with, and a couple of other bits I could live with if I could just give them a bit of a polish.
So, yeah, expect some proper stuff from me in the not too distant future, just don’t expect too much of the content, or frequency!
Mind you, half of the challange of writing is getting in the habit of doing it (again!), and since I’ve been spending a lot of time writing recently, even if it is just #AltText blurbs for photos of [Redacted for being too geeky], so hopefully that will stand me in good stead for the future.
Okay, I have to go and do some more family stuff, so I’ll leave it there.
StuartB