We’re a few weeks off 2025, but my targets for next year are simple – to be a better person.
- Lose weight
- Exercise more
- Dress better
- Be more selfless
- Reject negativity
- And just generally be nicer.
Blog
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Plans for 2025
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How to move your website from Wix to WordPress
Have you got a Wix website? Congratulations on signing up to a closed platform that really doesn’t want you to take YOUR data anywhere else. The good news is, if you want to take it to something a little more open and welcoming, WordPress does have a way of doing the hard work for you of getting it out of Wix.
There are other workaround available online, but they mainly involved importing via the RSS feed (which only shows limited content now) or manually copying over your page content.
The bad news – this isn’t built-in functionality. The good news – it’s free and relatively painless to do.
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What’s in my bag? 2024 edition
Every year I like to share the contents of my backpack. I travel a lot at WordPress VIP, so it often changes to reflect updated products as well as differences in my own thinking.
So, here I present what I’m carrying around in 2024 (albeit some of these will be dependant on the type of journey I’m making).
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It’s Twenty Twenty Five already…
Last week WordPress 6.7 was released. With it came a new default theme, Twenty Twenty Five. I was already using Twenty Twenty Four on this site, so I thought I’d try the new one out. As I write and publish this, if you visit the site now you’ll see the end result!
Just as a caveat, the changes aren’t complete. But the new theme is in place and most of the elements implemented, other than final tweaks that I need to make.
I’ve not deviated the site look from what it was. Apart from some obvious typeface changes, it seems much as it was. What they both have in common – note, whoever does the design – is that the templates come with a lot of vertical space between the blocks. With both I spent quite a lot of my time reducing that space down.
Otherwise all looks good, particularly if you’ve not worked with a front-end block theme.
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Social Shuffling
Although I do like to “reserve” my user name on pretty much any social media site going, that doesn’t mean I have a presence.
I closed my Twitter/X account some time ago – I could see which way that was going, and I wasn’t wrong.
I’ve been active on both Mastodon and Threads since, but have been disappointed with both. The former is still too complex and yet basic for most people, so has been limited to “tech” people. Threads, well it’s by Meta, so I should have guessed. The algorithms are terrible and my feed is full of people doing performative engagement baiting (“what does this do?”).
Although both of those accounts remain open my heart and time is now going into Bluesky, which is also the only network where my blog will auto-post too. Find me here.