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That's exactly how I want mine!!take a look at my blog. Is this what you’re after? I tried to make it as user friendly as possible, but it definitely takes a bit more effort. If you think I can help, feel free to make contact.
That's exactly how I want mine!!
Nicely sectioned off
Preparation
Cp2018
Cf2018
And then a new section for cf2019 which I'll add to each day.
I just think that anyone new coming to my blog has to scroll through nearly 80 posts to get to the beginning and it just looks and feels clunky..
Love your blog. I am lucky enough to have a pequeña casita in eastern Almeria province - I am doing my first camino this summer, Frances, and will be writing a blog of course - feel free to check it out Hoping I'll love it and then will plan to do Mozarabe in the future. One of the Camino signs outside Alboloduy, seen on many a bike ride, was one of my inspirations to walk the camino.take a look at my blog. Is this what you’re after? I tried to make it as user friendly as possible, but it definitely takes a bit more effort. If you think I can help, feel free to make contact.
I'm going to try on my laptop tomorrow but I seriously doubt I'll be able to do it.. I think I'm going to need face to face help or just fine someone online that I can give admin rights to and pay them to do it.. it'll probably only take an hour for someone who knows what they're doing. Once I'm set up I'll be flyingAndy, I use Wordpress “twenty ten” template. I create a new page for each tab section and for each sub-section (ie, each camino). On each camino page I create a chronological list of links to each day’s post.
Take a look, see if you can work it out. If not, I will happily help.
Twenty Eleven is similar, but I am having the same problems. Probably just not enough time to devote to this. Anyone want to teach a class?@Magwood recommends Twenty Ten on Wordpress, but it’s not available on my (recently purchased) app.
It sounds like Twenty Sixteen though. Does anyone have experience of using Twenty Sixteen for blogs?
John
Below is a link to an excellent post on Wordpress blogging.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/new-improved-camino-blogging-survival-guide.56732/
Brilliant. I had a trawl around your blog and found it very interesting. And what a long way to have walked - in 2013 I rode from Bayonne to Santiago with my husband, and we managed around 900 kms, that was enough for us! We are thinking of riding the Del Norte this year but are a bit worried about a lot of things, not least the outcome of Brexit and our ages (78 and 71). If you're interested in looking at the Camino from a different aspect (on a bike rather than walking) visit my website (cyclingsofties.blog). I'm a newbie at setting up and getting a website going so it's not as well constructed as yours. I love the map on your opening page, which whets the appetite right from the off.take a look at my blog. Is this what you’re after? I tried to make it as user friendly as possible, but it definitely takes a bit more effort. If you think I can help, feel free to make contact.
John, I'm using Twenty thirteen for my blog, and love it (see www.cyclingsofties.blog for an idea of how it looks. Easy to work with as well as it has a nice sidebar which can be used to effect.@Magwood recommends Twenty Ten on Wordpress, but it’s not available on my (recently purchased) app.
It sounds like Twenty Sixteen though. Does anyone have experience of using Twenty Sixteen for blogs?
John
It kind of helps... The things you suggest are the things I'm trying to achieve.. unfortunately I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't even know of my basic template that I chose allows the links/menus options.. I wish there was a company that I could pay to sort it out for me and then I can just carry on waffling in ignorance, knowing that it still looked pretty and accessibleHi Andy, (good name BTW)
The main concept you need to grasp on wordpress is the distinction between Pages and Posts.
You can regard Pages as static pages of info which contain reference info. Often people set up a page named About. That has info about the poster, where they live, what their hobbies are, how they feel about Brexit or fish. Another page may be other info. Those pages can produce links in a kind of menu format at the top of the wordpress web page.
Posts are more dynamic and fluid. They are usually posted one at a time and for the camino, I would suggest one post one Post per day or per week - however often you want to post. Randomly if that suits you. Normally posts are displayed in reverse chronological order but you can change that. Normally a post is published immediately but you can flag it as a draft, work on it later, and finally “publish” it when you are happy with it. Until you publish, no-one can see it.
Look and feel: the appearance of your blog is dependent on the Theme you choose. Importantly, the theme is not locked, you can change it as many times as you like. Start with one, look at another, upgrade it, whatever.
Photos and other graphical content is usually uploaded to the Media section of your wordpress account. When you want to add a photo to a post or page, you select it from the saved images in your Media store. If it isn’t there already, you upload it.
I have used wordpress for a few years now, including the basic account at wordpress.com and a paid account, also have self hosted a site using wordpress software, this gives the most flexibility but comes with the greatest complexity. Go for simple to start with.
As you have found, having a continuous post or page that gets longer and longer is hard to use, hard to read and is not indexed. Whereas wordpress will automatically generate a menu of your posts, either in an Archive list or in several other options. You can decide on what your pages look like, what lists and indexes are included on the side of your page, if your chosen theme allows for that. Some themes put indexes and tag lists at the bottom of the web page.
If you dream up categories and tags you will allow your site to be searchable on those categories and tags. A suggested category list would be to have one category per walk. Eg. CF2019, CP2016. And tags could be allocated per day, per starting point, per ending point or per albergue. You can use as many tags as you like on each post or page.
Hope this helps...
Andrew
In oz.
That's what I'm after!!Some great Blogs shared here. Better revamp mine, it's looking dated in comparison
Something you might want to consider @andywild is the post sequence.
A pet peeve of mine.
Maybe it's because I have poor attention (I have ADHD)
But most blogs have the posts set in date sequence, with the newest post at the top of the list.
I think that is the default setting.
This is great if people are following you 'live' back home.
They see your latest post at the top all the time.
But........
People will want to read your posts weeks, months, years later.
And you'll have tabs for different Caminos etc etc.
So for blog posts that are not related to a 'live' ongoing Camino,
Why not change the date sequence to oldest post at the top!
When you get back home. It's one easy setting......
Otherwise people have to read about your journey in reverse.
I just can't do it. So I tend not to read those ones.
It's like reading a book from the back to the front.
And even if you find the first post, it's not always easy to read them in the right sequence depending on the way the blog is structured.
If you look at my Blog, you will see each past Camino starts with the logical first post.
They are sorted oldest post first. http://robscamino.com/
Then if you have blog posts that are 'between' Caminos, you could add tabs for those too.
Equipment, Planning, Stories, whatever.
Just a thought, to make reading blogs easier.
But maybe it's just me and my poor attention
Hi Andy,I think perhaps you bestow me with too much intelligence.. have you read my blog? I'm a blithering fool. I'm just going to to pay someone to get the format right. I can focus on waffling inanely
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