![]() ![]() It took more finagling, but I managed to remake the same basic layout and design for the third time. I ended up back where I started, on Squarespace, but found I could (thankfully) still create a new site using the old 7.0 version. If the focus was to be on writing, I needed familiarity, not endless ways to tinker. So after trying a few posts, and with regret since the Markdown support and posting integration were so convenient, I said goodbye to WordPress as well. The tools were undoubtedly more powerful but also more complicated and unfamiliar coming from Squarespace. So I took the general layout, colors, fonts, and page structure that I had created in Squarespace and fiddled around enough to recreate it in WordPress. Plus, I knew WordPress played nicely with other tools like Shortcuts. If blogging “stuck” for me, I didn’t want to have to move a year from now to a more capable platform. I wanted to like WordPress because I figured it would be most viable for a long-term host. It wasn’t a complete loss, though, since I used that first iteration to develop my vision for my site’s visual design. While the theming and styling tools in the new version were an upgrade, many features were still in development, and 7.1 wasn’t as intuitive or flexible for blogging as I had expected. It turned out that starting a new website in 2020 meant getting their new editor, version 7.1, and I had been familiar with version 7.0 from a previous work project. Indeed there were mountains of opinion about the best hosts that I could sift through - and I did for a while - but the best way for me to make a decision is to get in and kick the tires around.įirst, I tried Squarespace. Could I get my content off of the blog host without difficulty and take it somewhere else? How would I add images if I wanted to include them in a blog post?Ĭould the site be the home for multiple projects if anything else piqued my interest? Then there was Squarespace - the place to “make your next move” that I’d had piped into my ears during years of podcast ads.Ĭould I write in Markdown and publish still publish easily? It seems like the standard place to go is WordPress because of all the bells and whistles that you can install to make it work and feel like your own. Primary among them was where to create it. Last year, when I decided to make HeyDingus a reality and publish a blog, I faced many choices. It took a few tries, but I’ve figured out how to use my favorite tools together to smoothly get from fleeting ideas to published blog posts. ⌘ JBuilding a Better Blogging Workflow for Squarespace ![]()
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