I like this theme, and I want to keep it, but it seems limited, and while the theme is free, the documentation on how to optimize it is $50, and that seems totally shady, so I have to create stupid test posts like this in order to figure things out.
I like this theme, and I want to keep it, but it seems limited, and while the theme is free, the documentation on how to optimize it is $50, and that seems totally shady, so I have to create stupid test posts like this in order to figure things out.
It’s even lamer when you have to leave a test reply on your own test post.
At least I like this font!
Why do you think it’s limited?
At this point, the limitation is mine. It seems in the past that every attempt I’ve made a blogging has failed because I tried to do everything and be everything, which resulted in me doing and being nothing. I feel like this time around I really need to focus on an agenda. So, as I see it, there are three possible avenues:
1) Personal blog. If I go this route, I don’t think I could dream up a better template. It’s minimal but suave, and has all the social media stuff covered. But in an age of Facebook and Google+ and Twitter and all the other services that people don’t follow me on, does anybody really give a shit what I have to say? Do I even have anything to say?
2) Specialty blog focused on one thing. What one thing? Dunno. But if I decide to become a music critic or write about dogs or hot dogs, this template then becomes limited (and that’s what I was referring to above). There are no tags (!) and creating categories and organizing them is not the most intuitive. Plus, if I do decide to make this blog about model trains (no) or something (anything besides me), would that kind of audience care what music I listened to on Spotify or who I’m tweeting to or what stupid picture I took last? Half the features of this template would then be obsolete, and the features I’d need for a magazine-style site aren’t included.
3) Shut the whole thing down and go home.
Currently, I’m leaning towards #3. (But I do really like this font.)
Since this isn’t your first or second blog, it seems to me that you either need to write or you just like the idea of a blog. It’s it’s the latter, go with #3. If it’s the former, then write about whatever you want. People will find you because it’s the beauty of Google and SEO and the interwebs. I blog for me mostly. I do it because I need to write, unless I’m depressed and then I don’t want to put what I’m thinking/feeling online so I don’t blog. Anywho, do it if you need to! If you love writing as much as I do, that’s reason enough.
BTW, the theme is not permanent. Find one you really like, then use it and keep looking around. I wanted to change my theme like a year ago and couldn’t find anything, so I left it. I searched every two months or so until I finally found something.