Author: FLYNN

20250111-2127. I did NOT like FLYNNSPAWS as my domain name. Back in 2001, I registered a Yahoo! email “flynnspaws”. Fast forward, I still use “flynnspaws” in most of my social media presence.

Tonight, I wanna change my Site Title from “FLYNN’S PAWS” or “FLYNNSPAWS” to “Your Daily Pause”, similar to that YouTube user Your Daily Dose (of the Internet).

Originally, one of my old sites was “A Daily Pause in Life”. But I felt that sounded like some home and garden variety show, like Home Shopping Network and the like.

The words “Pause” and “Paws”, which are homophones or words that sound similar but are spelled differently, always stuck with me. But I could NEVER figure out how to best use these two words as my weblog profile.

Comparatively speaking, Flynn “pauses” briefly in life or take time out to blog; while Flynn’s doppelgänger, her Evil Kitty, “paws” annoying at the keyboard, hence rants is typed-out as blogs. Get it?

I give up. So here is the newest Site Title: “Your Daily “Pause”, followed by the newest Site Tagline: “Small Thoughts from Big Brains: Blogs and Rants by Flynn’s “Paws”. I put the parenthesis around the two homophones, if y’all catch my drift. Never mind.

That’s all. End status report 2218 PST.

20250111-2200. I queried AI LEO to create some Site Taglines and Site Titles. The Taglines proved to be longer than the Site Titles, which is usually at least three words.

So far this is the Site Title: Your Daily “Pause” of a Blogger’s “Paws”. Originally, its was supposed to have been “A Daily Pause in Life”.

For my Site Tagline, I got “Small Thoughts from Big Brains: A Blogging Path of Rants by FLYNN”

Both are still too long. I need to do more brain-storming to shorten the length, because the Site Title doesn’t fit inside the top of the left sidebar of my website’s Dashboard.

That’s all. End of status report 2204 PST.

20250111-0234. Voila! I think I like theme Brute by team Automattic! I liked the wide open spaces and the “homonymous” vibes of neutral colors, such as Black, Cement, Charcoal and Marble, which I tried but the brightness hurt my eyes. The Black and Charcoal colors rendered one of my front page/Homepage image invisible. So I’ve opted for cement which is the color of grays and NOT the aliens knowns as Greys.

I pretty much kept the entire Front Page layout the same and simply added my own text and images. This worked out wonderfully! And I might really keep this theme. But for how long, Flynn? That’s a good question! I do NOT know until I get bored again, basically!

I’ve been struggling with designing and as y’all can see, I really do NOT have any creativity! What I do have is some ability in that “plug-and-play” concept of just plugging in my own stuff and playing around with the elements! Voila! Again I say this is probably a keeper this time!

The header has four columns for my Site title, Tagline and my two navigations: follow me and following.

The footer has two columns, which worked our VERY well. I was able to “squeeze in” the Social Icons block and my credit in the right column. For the first time, I’ve placed my location on the left column.

The top middle group has lots of columns, groups and stacks.

The first group contains four columns. I was able to use my lighter/mirrored Site Icon image on the left column. Below that image I’ve entered only two words which basically describe this entire website: blogs and rants. On the right column, I pulled and placed the first sentence from this platform’s profile About me into the Header. Then I pulled and placed the Front Page Meta Description for my Website description of one-dozen “tags” from the Jetpack app for iPhone into the paragraph below the Header.

The second group contains two Headers for my two catch-phrases (matching in letters and syllables between the human expressions and the animal parts) and my three MAIN pages of former sites.

The third group contains the latest blogs or recent posts. The “sticky post” sports my darker/mirrored Site Icon image on the right column. Below that image is the post “excerpt” to READ MORE. On the left column, there are four recent posts. To the left of each recent post is yet another unused yet colorful Site Icon.

The next group contains two columns of random posts: one random post from my hand-crafted KJV Bible verses (all 31,103 pages) and one random post from my daily prompts from different sites.

The next group contains the health of my blog: Archives, Calendar, Categories, Tag Cloud and Blog Stats.

The purpose for choosing this latest theme was inspired by my most prolific commenter John Jr, whose weblog site (theme Twenty Twenty by the WordPress team) sported HUGE fonts and wide open spaces, too. I was also mindful of and tried to improve upon his criticism of my weblog.

That’s all. It’s getting late. But I’m still NOT sleepy but excited that finally I could STOP switching and editing my themes! End of status report 0324 PST.

20250111-0119. Yeah, so last night, I saw the ad banner for the Jetpack Boost, which I’ve tried/used in the past. And so I knew that I could benefit from this product and purchased the two-year plan, which should cover beyond my Legacy “business” plan set to expire in one year. I may change my mind between the two different plans.

The main reason for yesterday’s purchased plan was to take advantage of the “Automatically Optimize CSS Loading” feature instead of manually “[generating my] Critical CSS whenever [I] make changes to the HTML or CSS structure of [my] site.”

The other feature was “Critical CSS advanced recommendations”, which identified an “HTTP error 404”! That post was already in the Trash and so I deleted that duplicated post, which was designated as “blog-2” with the usual “dash followed by the number 2” for automatic duplicates.

The useful feature was the Image Guide, in which the Image Size Analysis showed me images that needed my attention. For example, I used two small Site icon images for a larger display and those are “okay”, which is designated in a green colored “dot” over the affected images.

However, I had one image that had a red color dot! I kept trying to find a different image because the image really did display TOO large on both the mobile and desktop version. I found a smaller unused Site Icon (500×500 pixels) and that worked wonderfully! Now the image has a green colored dot!

So far my overall score is rated “A” despite the Mobile score of 86 lags slightly behind to my Desktop score of 96. I would take that as a compliment and assurance that my site is functioning properly for viewers’ experiences.

That’s all. End status report 0155 PST.

20250110-1110. The reason for duplicating these tasks tags* with categories is to audit/clone/match/mirror the Count. And then I’ll delete the duplicates later on.

I found one tag had a higher Count than the categories and vice versa. I see some tag_id are lower in numerical value meaning those are probably from the legacy accounts before deleting OLD any accounts with its OLD ads, marketing and social connections.

This time a genetic generic* Happiness Engineer replicated my issues. But theirs is fine while I’ll find now if the missing tab is my problem.

End status report 1115 PST. Edited 20250110-2204 PST.

20250110-0120. That’s it! I can’t stand it! I didn’t like the different colors and preferred dark and black! So I went back to theme Messenger. I liked my Twatter X layout and I’m keeping it! It has four columns and it’s beautiful, in my opinion.

Anyways, I had more incoming thoughts on how to “fix” my blog. I discovered that the Page list block was TOO long on the mobile version and I thought that I could “collapse” the Page List block. Nope. I could only display the “children” pages, which were the 66 KJV Bible books.

After that discovery, I then had an inspiration to redo my KJBV page to include the Page List block AND display only the 66 “children” pages! That worked out better because I neither had the patience nor the time to create 66 links for a new navigation menu!

But before I updated my KJVB page, I had to remove the Page List block and then add back myPages Navigation block underneath my Site Logo block of the first or leftmost column of four columns. This decision worked out well and that one column appeared less intimidating! But now it looks too empty!

Then I replace the Query Loop block with my favorite Block Posts block and set that block to display only three recent blogs or latest posts.

Then I had to remove the Tag Cloud block to even out the fourth column to the rest of three columns. Voila!

I now have a short and stocky but wide and hefty weblog!

That’s all. End of excitement 0130 PST. Time for bed. Edited 0146 PST.

20250110-0019. Welp, I really liked the layout of my Twatter X from theme Messenger, which I am using with theme Twenty Twenty-Five again. But this time, I’m trying an apple-green colored Style. With theme Twenty Twenty-Five, I could always try eight other colors!

I won’t bother changing the Colors or Font sizes because it’s too much work. But I had to change the size from HUGE to SMALL for each of the five Topography Elements one-by-one: Text, Links, Headings, Captions and Buttons.

My prolific commenter shared how he uses themes no later than Twenty Twenty, which I tried and did NOT like; because I needed better controls with blocks instead of the OLD ways. I got VERY impatient “creating menus” from the Twenty Twenty theme and said: SCREW IT!

There’s no going/turning back. I’m too addicted to working with blocks.

That’s all. End status report 0028 PST.

20250109-1859. Lo and behold! For I hath made my own Twatter X site! Dark, black and all that and I can’t go back, too!

Anyways, I’m trying theme Messenger by team Automattic! Aha! As I haz suspected that perhaps most of these companies are using Matt’s stuff!

So that’s what I did: Reset the Blog Home template to Default. And then I proceeded to “back engineer” the blocks to clone/mirror the Twatter Hexed site!

Oh, I love it! But for how long will I keep this current theme? Time will tell, of course!

I made use of two plugins for my Blog Home page. And in order to use these plugins, I (already) signed up for Business plan, though I am NOT really doing ‘business’ per se of selling any products or services.

I just like to test and try-out these fancy DESIGNING features and report any bugs to the Engineers/Developers of team Jetpack and/or team WordPress.

So I guess that’s what I am good at: being a Karen. I wanna talk to/speak with the manager – right now, this instance, NOT a moment too soon!

Of course, my rule of thumb and per the wise words of my elderly father: COMPLEMENT in public. COMPLAIN in private.

But do I listen to anyone or my own gut feelings, hunches, instincts, intuition or any knowledge thus far?

No. It’s fun NOT to comply sometimes. But I digress.

So here is the run-down to my Blog Home page template design:

First Group includes the Header: Site Title, Two navigations using a drop-down plugin.

Second Group includes Three Columns.

Left column: Site Logo, Page List.

Middle column: Query Loop

Right column: Search, Two paragraphs using a random plugin and the Footer of one Paragraph.

That’s all. End status report 1915 PST.

20250109-1431. I’m testing to see if the Tag search feature would pull-up my Tag “myBlogs” or NOT!

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