Reply To: Creating my Website: A. R. James

[Amy Hopkins]

Today’s progress:
I’ve installed the PENSCRATCH theme from wp-admin. It’s a free theme that is fairly friendly to blogs or sites with more text than images, which is what I’m after for now. I have used this theme before — it’s a little on the feminine side, but clean and easy to navigate.

In Theme > Customise
I changed the tagline from ‘Just another WP site’ to “Epic Fantasy Author”
I deleted some widgets, only leaving Search, Recent Posts and Archives

At a later date I will:
Change the home page setting to a static page (probably)
Add social buttons
Add a header image

In >Users, I added my VA as an administrator (I trust him with that – you can set it to only allow certain actions if you’re not comfortable giving someone full access)

Other tasks:
After I hit submit on this post, I’ll go and create some basic pages and a simple first blog post. This will make it easier for me to play around with menu settings. I’ll also try to get my social links set up – I will update with the process once I figure out what I’m doing there 😀

ETA: I have created my first blog post and scheduled a second one to go live on Monday. The sample Page has been deleted and I have added a contact page with my email and social links, and an about page. I’ve also created some quick tags and categories for posts.