WordPress has lots of different themes, useful for many different kinds of web sites. I use one with two columns, a wide one on the left, a narrow one on the right. The left one is a blog. I call it News and only post fairly short messages, usually about a new book, TV show, movie, or event.
Longer and unchanging posts such as my bio and essays and sample chapters of my books I put into the stable part of the site. You go there through the menu across the top of the site. When I put a new one up I post a notice in News.
Which brings us to widgets. These I put in the narrow column. These are little chunks of code that do things like display a calendar, ask for email addresses if someone wants to get notices of posts, show short lists of web links I've labeled Friends and Fan of and just Links.
One widget I highly recommend is the Recent Posts widget. It's much better than the Archives widget. That just lists the months in which you made posts, a terrible kind of table of contents. Posts lists the post titles, like this. It acts as a clickable table of contents of all the up-to-50 most recent posts.
THE BIG SICK engrossing film
GIANT ROCKETS a new generation
PERILOUS WAIF great military SF
EMILY BLUNT & ANNE HATHAWAY lipsync battle
...45 more titles...
REAL GENIUSES: what are they like?
Longer and unchanging posts such as my bio and essays and sample chapters of my books I put into the stable part of the site. You go there through the menu across the top of the site. When I put a new one up I post a notice in News.
Which brings us to widgets. These I put in the narrow column. These are little chunks of code that do things like display a calendar, ask for email addresses if someone wants to get notices of posts, show short lists of web links I've labeled Friends and Fan of and just Links.
One widget I highly recommend is the Recent Posts widget. It's much better than the Archives widget. That just lists the months in which you made posts, a terrible kind of table of contents. Posts lists the post titles, like this. It acts as a clickable table of contents of all the up-to-50 most recent posts.
THE BIG SICK engrossing film
GIANT ROCKETS a new generation
PERILOUS WAIF great military SF
EMILY BLUNT & ANNE HATHAWAY lipsync battle
...45 more titles...
REAL GENIUSES: what are they like?
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