Building Personal WordPress blog – December Update

december wordpress blog improvements

This month, I focused more on adding content rather than introducing new elements. However, I still ended up adding a few new pages and categories. ✨😁

Backup

Earlier, community members recommended keeping a locally stored backup of my site, so I made this a priority.

I also created a Google document where I store all my articles before publishing. I’m really enjoying the new tabs feature in Google Docs – it makes organizing my work so much easier!

new google tabs feature that I like

New page – My balance

The “My balance” page has been part of my plans from the beginning. The idea is to gather everything that inspires and helps me – things I love that aren’t directly related to work or WordPress. 💙

I haven’t designed this page yet because I’m still figuring out how I want it to look and feel.

That’s why I decided to start with the core content and write down the basics first:

#1 Created Mental Health custom post type 

new mental health custom post type

#2 Added taxonomies such as: #HowAreYouWeekly, Traveling, Books, and Mental Health.

adding taxonomies to my custom post type

#3 I also added these categories to the menu for better navigation:

navigation improvements - added categories to menu

Articles

This month, I:

What’s Next?

Here are my tasks for the coming months:

☐ Design the structure of the My Balance page.

☐ Create unique structure/view for the single pages of each My balance page category, as I see each category having a distinct look and feel.

☐ Design template images for my posts (my sister is experimenting with design courses, so we plan to collaborate on this).

☐ Write a post about my top books of 2024.

☐ Create a Contact page (this is already in progress but not finished yet).

☐ Launch WordPress news page.

☐Think about my newsletter.

What would you like to see first? Your comments help me prioritize these tasks. 💙


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