So i tried to set up a site in wordpress.org, rather than .com, after I realised that you need to pay like $300 to be able to install plugins (!). I built a website for my workplace (footprinters.co.uk) earlier this year [still in progress to be honest] and loved learning about the different plugins you can use to adapt the site to what you want it to be. I did not enjoy going back to wordpress.com for my own site – although it was possible to just get started right away and have a serviceable site up and running pretty quickly, I definitely want to have more freedom to change bits and pieces about my site. At work we also offer webhosting services so I was able to buy a plan from my workplace, and it worked a bit like a training session for me: learning how to assign server space, how to purchase a domain, and how to make the wordpress site I’d made actually be the destination of the url! After I managed all that though, I thought the new site looked like crap and got seriously dismayed with the idea of continuing to try. 🙁
I’ve not done a lot of drawing over the past month. I wanted to post some little sketches here that I did manage though, and chart a little bit of progress in various areas.
A few clip studio paint & wacom evening sketches
Just learned a new thing a moment ago too: hiding featured images in the post itself. That was really annoying me a lot. I don’t actually want the featured image to appear at the top of each post! And I definitely don’t want it to be huge! So I’ve installed “Conditionally display featured image on singular pages and posts” plugin and it works! This is the small, slightly annoying little changes I really wanted to learn to make myself, so that’s a success :).
haha this was supposed to just be a little post to add some sketches but it’s turned into another wordpress site editing and learning session! The newest thing I’ve done is eliminated the AWFUL excerpt section that was at the top of each blog post – IN THE FUNCTIONS.PHP FILE. This is a really big deal for me because I’ve never edited the code of a theme before and it felt genuinely scary. This page gave me the necessary line:
remove_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt' );
I’m amazed it worked! It’s really a big achievement and confidence booster