I’ve settled on the theme “Twenty Fourteen” for my site. It’s very simple, works great on all of my devices, and it has “infinite scrolling” (and it’s free). Infinite scrolling means it will display the first group of posts (I think I set it to 20), but if you get to the last post when scrolling down, it automatically loads the next 20 posts. So basically, you can keep scrolling and read every single post on my site without ever having to click a “Next Page” link. I like that. I’m lazy.

We’re doing good with our new hosting services so far. It definitely can’t be beat for the price. And all of my subscription options and hosting settings are embedded right into the WordPress administration menus, so I don’t need to go to multiple different websites like I did before. I wish I had made this change years ago.

I configured the main menu to be pretty much the same as what I’ve had for years, but with a few additional links to my social media accounts. Yes, I know “Twitter” is “X” now, but I refuse to comply. I’m sorry, but X has, and will always be, to ME at least, the universal symbol for “Close” or “Close Window”. I refuse to call Twitter “X”. It just sounds wrong, like it’s a port site, or something banned or crossed-out. Even in the Twitter app, which has an “X” in the middle, I’ve instinctively tried to close it once or twice by stupidly pressing that logo. Yeah, I’m an IT geek, I’m just getting old. But I’m never going to add a menu item to my website with just an X in it.

Enjoy the site, and I welcome your feedback. Even if it’s just on whether or not you can add comments or not… I opened it up a bit to not require a login, but that got really messy the last time I tried it, with hundreds and hundreds of bots and worldwide spammers posting garbage everywhere. I’m curious if that was just a side-effect of my hosting provider though, so I’m giving it another shot to see how it goes.