Today we are going to take a little tour of my new site. I have to admit that WordPress themes, while a little challenging at first, actually have some cool little features.
First off you’ll notice if you look above the title for this post that there are two tool bar thingys. I used to know a lot more technical terms for things but frankly all the really important information in my brain has been squeezed out to make room for the lyrics to Sponge Bob, iCarly, the new Miley Cyrus song, Party in the U S A, and the TV schedule for Monday and Tuesday nights. Sorry, “thingy” works well.
Where was I?
The toolbar right above the title has a few of the categories I use for my posts. This is a feature that Blogspot did not have. Blogspot has Tags, which I used randomly and with no sense of organization. When I moved my blog over here I had 300 different tags (remember I am not organized and thus the tags were useless to me). WordPress converted them all into categories which made that top toolbar really big. So I deleted all the categories and have been reorganizing all my posts. Eventually you will be able to click on one of the category tabs up there and find a related post. That’s the hope anyway.
Above the category toolbar is another toolbar with a few tabs as well. These are separate pages that I can make any way I want. First off there is the “About” page. This page is obviously about me. Which is kinda stupid since the whole blog is about me but since all blogs aren’t about me there might be a need for a page about someone else, if it were someone else’s blog. Are you following me? There isn’t much there because it seems redundant but eventually I might put some interesting facts up there that you can easily reference. Why you’d want to I don’t know but I’ll throw some stuff up there soon.
Next to the “About” page is the “Redheads” page. This page has facts galore on redheads. I stole it from Purgatory.net, who is also a redhead but one I don’t know. It’s an old page so I figure she won’t notice. Check it out, I learned a lot about being a redhead and I’m already one.
The next tab is “Stuff I Like” I may be changing the name of this tab but for now that was the best I could do. This page has links to all things neato, cool, or otherwise fun. Right now I have free beer and sex toys up there. Moooog has just left this page to go check it out. I’ll put offers, fun stuff and other things that are cool but that I don’t want to write a whole post on. So check it out often as it will change frequently.
On the right hand side you will find all my widgets. Entrecard, Adgetize, which is a great site since they pay you to advertize there and my own advertising widgets in the event you want an ad over here. These will change occasionally as I learn which buttons are beneficial and which aren’t. I’m really trying not to clutter up the site with a lot of junk but I need to figure out which ones perform.
I also have my blogroll over there. If you would like to be on my blogroll simply leave a comment here or send me an email {redheadshesaid [at] gmail [dot] com} It would be nice if you returned the favor and put me in your blogroll.
That concludes our little tour, please feel free to look around. The next tour should be coming through in an hour or so. Someone grab Moooog on the way out.
Love your new digs, thanks for the tour.
BTW, I think moooooog has passed out and is laying in a sea of sex toys.
Look, I need to be honest with you. I just popped over here from Don’s blog and I tried to read this post but the only words I kept seeing were “thingy” and “toolbar” because the somewhat salacious comment you left on his blog was still on my mind along with certain residual images from DK’s newest post and together the three of you have turned my brain in some sort of hormonal mush that’s left me feeling somewhat dirty and ashamed.
Sorry.
Have a nice day, Red.
Margo, You’re welcome, I was really hoping someone would grab him on the way out.
Mike, Welcome to the blogosphere, at least this little corner of it. A place where maturity is checked at the door. God it’s great here!
Hi JEN,
I commented back to you on my blog entry you replied on, Hope you’ll stop by!
Christopher
http://life-accordingtochristopher.blogspot.com/
Love the new look…I’ve been thinking about switching my site to a WP for awhile now, one of the reasons being the whole tag problem… I WANT CATEGORIES DAMMIT!!
I love seeing blogger blogs switch to WordPress. There’s so much you can do now! There’s a plugin for nearly everything.
Very professional look you have there, Jen!
.-= DeadRooster´s last blog ..iPhone 3GS: Once Again Dead Rooster Reviews Stale Technology =-.
Christopher, thanks for stopping by, sorry if I sounded like your mother.
Nipsy, I never cared all that much about tags or categories before but now it seems really important to be able to distinguish my posts about ex#1, ex#2 and shit that pisses me off. It’s a great improvement.
Dead Rooster, In addition to having so many plugins just the process of figuring it all out gives me stuff to write about. I really wish I had started at wordpress or switched sooner. Google might still be finding me by now. Don’t let the professional look fool you, we’ll still talk about dog poop and stupid things my kids say.
I’ll trade I’ll trade!! 🙂 You are on my blog roll… despite your eyebrows …
Katherine, you are in my blogroll. If you had mentioned the part about being a redhead I might have gotten to it faster and despite the eyebrow crack.
Sorry about Buddy.
You lost me at Today. I haven’t caught up Yesterday yet. I’m come back Tomorrow, Maybe it will make more sense then
I would like to be on your blogroll as well, and I will add you to mine! Mine is a drop down menu that says “Friends” on the right side of my blog! If not please drop me a note, thanks in advance.
God bless,
Jodi
Hiya Jen, Nice set-up you’ve got here. I love the clean and simple look of it. It’s great you have those little “share” buttons. I’m jell:D
Everything looks so clean and uncluttered here! I wish I had the nerve to switch from Blogger.
DR. Faustroll, Okay. Don’t expect anything here to make much sense however.
Jodi, I’d be happy to put you on my blogroll. Thanks for putting me on yours.
Christine, It’s clean now but give me a few weeks and you’ll find dirty socks under the couch and half full Diet Coke cans lying all over the place.
Daisy, I wish I had moved sooner. I’m told that Google and other search engines find you more when you host yourself but right now no one is finding me but I’m told that will change in a couple of days. You have a well established following who I am sure would follow you with a simple redirect, still you have tons of posts and moving and subsequently deleting them over at blogger (because search engines won’t even consider duplicate content) was a very difficult thing for me to do.
Congratulations!
I’ve been very happy at WordPress. At least, until I have to upgrade. But even that has gone well for me. Thanks for the tour!
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I love tours…lets see the bedroom next…
oh. sorry.
looks great here!
Thanks for the tour. I’ve been with WordPress for quite a while and totally love it. And I’m still figuring out some of the cool things that can be done. Have fun!
Thanks so much for stopping by and glad to give you a laugh! That’s what I’m here for!! Nice blog!!
Looks good in here : )
Thanks for the tour, I was thinking about makin the switch
Hey! Congrats on the new home! So exciting, but lots of work too!
Thanks for the small tour of some of the things about WordPress. I’m not planning on moving my blog anytime soon, but there are always new projects, and I have been thinking of trying it for a long time now.
I like WordPress and I like your new look I’m sure you’ll have lots of fun with it.
nice blog…care to link exchange?
JDm Upgrade? Great.
Stacie, The bedroom is filled with laundry baskets of clothes that need folding and I forgot to make my bed. Maybe next time.
Jan, I’m glad to hear that others really like WordPress. Thanks for stopping by.
Lee, thanks you for making me laugh.
Rob, Good luck with the switch, let me know how it goes.
Jenny, thanks it has been many things, I guess exciting is one of them.
Ratty, who knows maybe blogger will adopt some of the cool features.
Jude, I am having fun. Each day there is something new to figure out.
Dihan, I’ll have to look at you blog, I’ll let you know, thanks for stopping by.
Your blog looks nice. I’m still with Blogger, but it seems you can do more with WordPress. I hope you have fun with it. This is the second blog I read in a row that mentioned the new Miley Cyrus song. My daughter loves her. I’ll have to check that out.
Thanks for stopping by & commenting on my blog the other day. 🙂
Sue, My daughter loves her songs but isn’t fooled by Hannah Montanna. The songs are catchy, to a fault, I haven’t been able to get it out of my head.
good information, thanks
Hi, i just thought i’d post and let you know your blogs layout is really messed up on the K-Melon browser. Anyhow keep up the good work.