It’s been quite an adventure learning the ins and outs of WordPress. If you aren’t aware, it is the dominant foundation on which a vast swath of the internet as you know it is built. Per HubSpot’s 2022 statistics, WordPress is used by over 43% of all websites on the internet. It is not, as I have discovered, for the impatient and faint of heart. As an explorer of all things internet since the early Internet Age of the 90s, I’ve dabbled in HTML coding, WYSIWYG page editors, and search engine optimization techniques. The native page editor in the JetPack plugin (baked-in to all WordPress.com plans) is… functional. It is not intuitive. To be fair, it is one spoke in a large wheeled utility that seeks to be utilitarian and functional first. Mission accomplished; however, it is confusing and time-consuming to learn for the uninitiated.
After some, on the surface, minor tweaks to a blog template, I believe I have the bare-bones built with a working understanding of all things WordPress.com needed to continue this journey. It has been, and looks to continue to be, a bit of a slog. With more practice, more momentum.
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