More Tweaks & Additions To The Blog
Only a few days ago I outlined some tweaks and additions to the blog.
I've changed things already.
The core concept of the site remains the same: I want a blog feed, a notes feed and a photo feed. But instead of running all three of these with distinct and separate blogs (and housing notes and photos on subdomains) I've followed the system that gobino uses on his site.
There are two primary benefits to this in my mind:
1. The home page can now be much more dynamic.
Under the old setup, someone would have to deliberately click through to my notes and photo feeds in order to see the most recent content. That might be fine, and I'm not trying to get a ton of views or anything here, but I do think having my newest content all surfacing on the site's home page is generally better to allow people to see what I'm up to and help them click around and explore.
Now all my recent content is embedded and updated on the blog home page.
2. I can post from one blog instead of three different ones.
This is a minor benefit, since Bearblog's dashboard makes everything pretty simple even if you're using multiple blogs, but it is nice to be able to post blogs, notes and photos from the same dashboard.
Previously I didn't run everything through a single blog because I didn't want to clutter the blog directory and RSS feed with notes and photos. Now that I know you can use tags to create distinct feeds this becomes a non-issue.
I'm using the following tags to separate content types: blogs, notes and photos.
I'll set both notes and photos posts to not be discoverable so they don't clutter the discover feed, while blog posts will remain discoverable.
Thanks again to gobino for having such a cool site and inspiring this setup, plus this Bearblog customization tips list from Ava and this specific post from Sylvia for helping me figure out how to establish the class setup and get the home page styled correctly.
OK, housekeeping V 2.0 is wrapped.