{"id":8772,"date":"2021-03-28T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2021-03-28T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T17:50:08","slug":"reworking-my-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2021\/03\/28\/reworking-my-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Reworking My Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Just totally off topic, do you know how many people think website is spelled &#8220;web sight&#8221;? Too many, I tell you.  But back to what I meant to say.<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a new novel that I may put out as a Kindle-only, or Kindle-first book, just as an experiment in low-cost, fast-production work.  Anyway, in this story the main character has to make a website to advertise his new iPhone app.  Considering the way I work, it made me go tinker with my own website.  It had gotten very bad lately (I also downloaded Xcode and am experimenting with writing a phone app, but that&#8217;s another story).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with my website henrymelton.com (henrymelton.net and several other names) is that I based it on the wrong theme several years ago when I switched over to WordPress.  Over time, this theme vendor made it impossible to set or customize many of the features without buying the expensive subscription version.  As a result, since I&#8217;m too cheap to spend tons of money on a website that wan&#8217;t pulling any paying customers anyway, I wasn&#8217;t able to make the main menu of the site clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, in frustration I switched back to a default WordPress theme and threw away many of the clever widgets that I thought were so cool at the time.  The resulting site is cleaner and easier to navigate, and with a new page that lists all of my books in one place, much easier to look around.  I&#8217;ll probably add back widgets that make sense, but for now I&#8217;m happy with the change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"985\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-28-at-12.16.13-PM-1024x985.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-28-at-12.16.13-PM-1024x985.png 1024w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-28-at-12.16.13-PM-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-28-at-12.16.13-PM-150x144.png 150w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-28-at-12.16.13-PM-768x739.png 768w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-28-at-12.16.13-PM-100x96.png 100w, https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-28-at-12.16.13-PM.png 1359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just totally off topic, do you know how many people think website is spelled &#8220;web sight&#8221;? Too many, I tell you. But back to what I meant to say.&#8230; I&#8217;ve been working on a new novel that I may put out as a Kindle-only, or Kindle-first book, just as an experiment in low-cost, fast-production work.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2021\/03\/28\/reworking-my-site\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reworking My Site<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[550,23,3,559],"tags":[77,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-28-at-12.16.13-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-2hu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8774,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions\/8774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}