Posted March 18, 2016 in Let's Discuss, Life, Reading / 12 Comments
Welcome to the second part of my series on blog organization. The first part of the series was on the plugins I use and this post will be on scheduling.
I used to use exclusively Google Calendar to help me schedule my posts. It was great because I was able to sync between computer and my phone. However, I had some problems with it. I was forgetting to look at it or update it as often as I should.
Now, I use a May Designs planner. I have a months + dots agenda and I will show you how I use it. The months are, obviously, for scheduling and I use the dots to help keep track of reading challenges.
The first thing I did when I got my planner was add a key to each month’s page. My key is as follows:
- red for Monthy Wrap-Ups
- green for Reviews
- purple for Discussions
- blue for Memes
- orange for Catholic Liturgical Calendar
- pencil for personal things or tentative posts
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Posted February 3, 2016 in Let's Discuss / 10 Comments
This is the first post in a series I am starting about how I organize, especially in relation to this blog. Being organized is a rather large portion of what enables me to blog. For today, I am going to talk about the plugins I use. I am on self-hosted WordPress and so there are a plethora of plugins available for me to use. I can’t speak about all of the available plugins but I can tell you about the ones I use.
Akismet is one of the most necessary plugins. It helps protect your comments from being continually full of spam.
I use the Broken Link Checker plugin to scan my site for any broken links. When it finds a broken link, I can easily fix the link if I mistyped it or figure out what went wrong if I didn’t.
This little plugin is great because it notifies commenters when their comment has a new reply. People are much too busy to go check each post they have ever commented on to see if there is a reply. An email sent to let the commenter know there is a reply is very important.
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