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Jump Start
To jump start your website, just start writing. Your website is hidden from search engines at startup, so you are safe to experiment away. No…
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Twenty Twenty One
Is our new default theme, i.e. when you fire up a new site. By all means upgrade to Twenty Twenty Two, if that feels right…
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What’s new in 2021?
Twenty Twenty One (TTO from now on) is the default WordPress theme and looks plain and old fashioned, but tailored around the new Block Editor.…
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Typography Matters!
The Art of Readable, Impactful Design Typography is more than just choosing a pretty font—it’s a fundamental part of how your message is received. The…
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Before you make your site live (no one will find you unless they have the link otherwise) …
In our setup the default is to discourage search engines. This is to protect you from accidentally publishing your experimental doodles. In our experience many…
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Add a widget in the footer or delete it
Widgets are blocks that appear outside the content area or a page or post. They include sidebars and footers and in some templates may include…
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Adjust the menus or remove them entirely
Managing menus is fairly easy, but there are pitfalls due to the flexibility of the options available. You manage menus first by creating a collection…
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Customise key aspects of your site or switch template
To open up the customizer, select from the top bar or Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer. The customizer provides a key route to modifying many…
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Switch your front page to any other page and enable a posts page
In the default WordPress setup the front page is set to a preset list of posts. Depending on the template you may get a grid…
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Create a new page or post (and the differences) and where it will appear
To create a page or a post you will need to be logged in – if you can see the black bar at the top…
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Make the placeholder content draft
While you can easily delete the placeholder content, you can also make it draft – to refer to later. Rather than deal with each post…
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Emotive fonts
Choosing the right font for the job is pretty easy, scroll down the font list in your customizer until you find the one you like,…
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Help Switching
Inertia prevents many people from switching. Switching their bank, energy supplier, or their insurance provider. The idea that there is a better deal out there…
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Image Management
Many website users struggle with images, even those that have managed a website for years. Here’s some straightforward things you can do to make your…
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Hello Twenty Twenty One!
Prematurely, Twenty Twenty One is here!!! It is the new WordPress theme and, naturally, supports WordPress Blocks (since Twenty Nineteen most WP themes should). Once…
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Chat
It seems I cannot chat with Kafka 🙁
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Video
The video block is as easy as popping a youtube or vimeo link into your page
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Status
I am having a relationship with Kafka 🙂 Status Updates are a little like Asides insofar as the title gets stripped out, which may suit…
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A Quote
Language is but a poor translation. ― Franz Kafka
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An Image
Just type /i into a new para will pop up the image block. Lots of framing options or go plain vanilla.
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A Link
A link to our syndicated News OurLocality Page
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A Gallery
This is an area which seems to trap unsuspecting first time users. Type /g to get the wizard up and read carefully. No need to…
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This is an Aside
An Aside is a special Post Type that will appear in the news content stream like an ordinary blog post … but without the title.…
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Creative Covers: How to
The modern website must have tools to create full screen covers. It is annoying to have to rely on a plugin to do this, which…