Zero to Hero: Day Fourteen
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@easygoinmama
You’re dead right but I don’t keep my phone in my pyjamas (although after today I might revisit that decision) and the only tablet I have are sleeping tablets! (Just kidding I don’t need any help falling asleep these days!)I appreciated your positive post. Keep it up and good luck with the publishing. If only I knew where Oregon was I’d race over there and buy a magazine. But if its any consolation I love you guys’ herb ‘oregano’. I use it all the time.
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@vegasesundance
Oh come on now, you don’t know where Oregon is…LOL
You may want to revisit the cell phone situation. I’d like to tell you what I would do with mine, but I’m not going to rant today. That’s not being very positive -:)
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@bee, do you mean the calendar widget @luthersjournal mentioned? If so, that’s not something we’ll cover specifically — there’s no time to get into every individual widget. Here’s the support document for that widget: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/calendar-widget/
There’s also the “milestone” widget, or you can embed a Google calendar. You can find links to both of those in the document linked above.
@kumbricia, it is possible. If you’ve overwhelmed each time you look at your Reader, you’re less likely to actually dive in and read. Personally, I follow a lot of topics, but only follow individual blogs where I’m keen to stay on top of every post. Then, I skim “blogs I follow” daily, and dip into the topics when I have more time.
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@luthersjournal, the links should be working — at least, they work for me. Please let me know if they’re still giving you problems.
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I found the task about developing a blogroll baffling. I tried reading the page on wrodpress but gave up as it seemed very technical and included a lot of things I don’t want to explore right now – perhaps not ever.
Can someone explain what additional adventages there is in having a blogroll when I’ve already got lists of Blogs I Follow, Comments I made and Posts I Like. It seems just too much of a good thing – please convince me otherwise! Also it sounds very like “Bog-roll” ie toilet paper! -
@lassfromlancashire, you definitely don’t need to add a blogroll if you’ve already got all those widgets. I prefer the blogroll to “Blogs I Follow,” because a blogroll isn’t limited to WordPress.com blogs, and I can share links to sites all over the web. But if you’re happy with the widgets you’re using now, I certainly feel no need to convince you otherwise — it’s your blog!
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Hello, I have quite a few blog posts now and it’s quite a lot of scrolling if you want to get to the first post and then more scrolling if you want to get back to the top.
Is there a way of having a widget that you click on that jumps to the top post. And how do I insert a ‘older’ ‘newer’ button to break up my posts?
Thank you
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What a nice break. I needed to do some catch up reading and commenting. I also had an idea working it’s way through my brain that I needed to write about, and this respite gave me the chance.
I also decided to get rid of the blogroll on my sidebar and make a links page. Hopefully people will see it and use it after I finish.
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@bigtedlittleted
There is no such widget. You have two options.option one – switch themes
This is a list of active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content on the front page > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410option 2 – edit posts insert the more tag
If you want to display only excerpts on the front page of the blog followed by read more links, you can insert “the more tag” into each post prior to publication.
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@michelleweber – no, actually not the widget calendar. I’m not entirely sure how it works, but it’s a publishing calendar where I can write posts and set them to publish on certain days.
And yes, I totally understand that we can’t cover everything here :-) I’m grateful for all that I’ve learned already. -
@bee60
@michelleweber
I think this is what is being requested https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/editorial-calendar -
Ah! Yes! that is exactly what I was talking about. OK, I’ve read the posts on the forum you linked to. Thanks.
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@bee60
Well now we have a few more wanting one like this one. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/editorial-calendar-suggestion?replies=3#post-1186298 -
Ah, got it @bee60. Thanks for those links, @timethief.
@bee60, although we don’t currently have that feature, you can schedule posts to publish whenever you’d like. When you’re writing a new post in the dashboard, the box where the “Publish” button is includes the date/time of publication — feel free to set that in the future, and the “Publish” button will switch to “Schedule.” Then, when you look at your list of posts, you’ll see all upcoming pieces.
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@bee60
@michelleweber
Following up on what Michelle posted know that the publication of a scheduled post does not happen until the first visitor to your site after the date and time scheduled triggers it by clicking in.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/schedule-a-post/#troubleshooting-scheduled-posts
It’s glitchy and currently there are issues with it. Another member found that you can trigger publication by using this free http request scheduler:
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Thanks @timethief
So, if I understand correctly, this is a suggestion at this point and it is only available as a plug in to download. Something for me to look forward to.
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@bee60
Yes, there are plugins for self hosted WordPress.ORG installs for editorial calendars but there is no such a feature here at WordPress.COM. -
Thank you both for your patience. It’s the self-hosted .ORG and the .COM that I was mixed up about.
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@bee60
Many people get the two mixed up. Here’s a comparison http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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