After lurking on my favorite spiritual resource for Catholics online, I came across this nifty button. It’s called `AddThis`. It’s the #1 Bookmarking & Sharing Service.
You can get a button. But if you want sharing statistics, you’d have to register, which I did but my username was from long time ago. So I sent myself an email for both the forgotten username and password and logged myself back into the site.
You could see the `button` on the sidebar widget titled `Share this blog`. It’s neat!
I’m trying to build my Blogroll widget of web links on the right sidebar. I have included a new link for `traditional & con-temporary` sounds. The youngest member of four sure could use a loving boost. He totally looks like and sounds like my friend overseas! I love his buttery voice. They need your help, too. Meh! It has something to do with reoccurring number of 144,000.
At 4:30pm, WordPress.com didn’t work. I tested on both web browsers. At around 4:34pm, the site worked. I wondered what happened? Did it happen to anyone else using WordPress.com?
All I was doing was changing my Blog Title to:
It’s because I really wanted my nickname – FLYNN – to appear on it. I just wasn’t feeling the `angel` part of the site title. It appeared too religious, honestly.
Then I tried saving a `Text widget` about the disabled DST. I’ll have to go back and redo that widget.
Earlier, I even changed the Blog Title to another one of my WordPress.com weblog to:
Since last night, I got bored again and decided to add more widgets to my sidebar. So I mimicked the order of appearance based on the Dashboard of the `https: //[user name here].wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php`:
This is how I build my weblog – by borrowing ideas from others and turning these goodies into my own creative work. Hopefully it’s not plagiarism or copyrighted material. It’s just these works of art are REFLECTIONS of ourselves – each other and self, too.
Finally, after all these years, I’ve figured out how to get my `Main menu` (or `Pages` widget) to look almost EXACTLY like my `Contents` page!
To create a custom menu, give it a name above and click Create Menu. Then choose items like pages, categories or custom links from the left column to add to this menu.
After you have added your items, drag and drop to put them in the order you want. You can also click each item to reveal additional configuration options.
When you have finished building your custom menu, make sure you click the Save Menu button.
I’m trying to find a logical and visually pleasing set of widgets to place into my sidebar. So far this is what I have:
Well, I’m using the `Connections` theme with 11 widgets for free here at WordPress.com. There are no changes made to the theme’s CSS stylesheet.
Why? As mentioned in my previous blog entry, my weblog looked messed up via the Internet Explorer and probably from constantly tweaking my paid `Custom CSS` upgrade.
And because one referrer is from an educational website for children, I MUST keep the contents of my weblog clean. That means more humor and less rant! Damn!
In addition, this theme is a good way to show off my interest in orgone. With a classic, two column theme of cream and green colors, there are three widgets of orgone-related images. I’ve already received three views for two of these three images this day.
Here is the current order to the widgets:
In order to view the sidebar widgets, please click the `Home` page. Thank you.
You may refer to my previous blog entry – `20091108-Old Theme` to find out why I like to keep this current `Connections` theme here at WordPress.com.
On my sidebar there are three images: Dorkboy, Orgone and Readings. Guess what? The acronym for these three words (which are the headers (or title) to the widgets) spell `DOR`!
Okay, fine! I figured out how to CONTROL (or administrate, rather) the subscription.
I noticed on the bottom of the emails there is the gray-colored WordPress.com logo of the letter `W` inside a circle. And to the right of this logo appears two sentences:
WordPress.com | Thanks for flying with WordPress!
Manage your subscriptions | Signup with WordPress.com
By clicking the `Manage your subscriptions` link, I am directed to the `http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=[bunch of numbers here] &email=[subscriber’s email here]&update=unsubscribed` link.
So I clicked on the subscriber’s information and found the following valid response:
Unsubscribed from subscriptions.
You have no active subscriptions.
Well, I’m finished using the `Blog Subscriptions` widget. It’s too much to worry about who is reading my IMPERFECT entries, which I why I prefer the SUMMARY version to my RSS Feeds for both `Posts` and `Comments`.
By showing only the SUMMARY version, it forces the readers to decide whether or not to CLICK the link and read the entire post from my weblog site instead of just from the RSS Feed of their browsers or from their emails for that matter!
Plus, I’m able to see the blog stats to the types of posts that readers are viewing. Sheesh!
Addendum: Read the following WordPress.com article on `Blog Subscription Widget` to `get started`.
I don’t like the new `Blog Subscriptions ` widget! Why?
It’s because the entire post is shown in the body of the incoming email! I thought the administrator of the WordPress.com account would have the option of CONTROLLING how the content would appear when readers subscriber to my daily blog via email, just like the RSS Feed in which each article is shown as a SUMMARY and not as FULL TEXT via the `options-reading.php` webpage.
And because my blog entries are mostly RANTS and RAVES and since I don’t always run the `Proofread Writing` feature located under the `Visual` tab of the `post-new.php` webpage, I end up publishing once and find myself EDITING the content several times for PERFECTION!
In other words, the original emails sent for each blog entry WILL contain errors and that’s not good, at least to me!
As a result, I’ve removed this newest WordPress.com widget (i.e. `Blog Subscriptions`) from my sidebar. Sorry for the inconvenience, folks! My anal retentive behavior will NOT allow for further IMPERFECTION, which explains why I keep switching from one theme to the next here at WordPress.com.
Addendum: Read the following WordPress.com article on `Blog Subscription Widget` to `get started`.
I just discovered a new WordPress.com widget called `Blog Subscriptions`.
Add your todays and fill out the following fields to the `Blog Subscriptions` widget for your sidebar.
Widget title:
Email Subscription
Optional text to display to logged in WordPress.com users:
Click to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Optional text to display to non-WordPress.com users:
Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Subscription Button:
Sign me up!
Addendum: Read the following WordPress.com article on `Blog Subscription Widget` to `get started`.
I’ve changed the text to my sidebar widget entitled `about site`, which is located underneath the blog title – Flynn’s Blogs:
Old text:
My [almost] daily blog for sharing god’S GOLD and living a SuNNY LiFe.
New text:
Deep Thoughts from a Simple Mind
My Daily Blog – In My Own Words
For the `new text`, I’ve modeled the first line from my ALIEN contact and the second line after the title a book.
As a result, I had to redo my `front-matter` and upload the revised `web-book` into slideshare.net.