You might have noticed some funny things going on here for the last week or so. I’ve been in the process of switching from blogger to wordpress. After talking to many other bloggers, I decided that going forward wordpress offered me more options for displaying and organizing my content.
So with that said, I thought I’d share a few things with you guys that are new here!!
First:
You’ll notice the new tool bar on top, if you hover over “Tutorials and Projects” you’ll see a drop down menu. All of the tutorials are now organized by category!! So you can search for sewing, holidays, printables, parties etc!!
The pages are not complete yet, but I’ll be working on them this week to get all of the tutorials back where you can access them easily..
Speaking of tutorials, I’ve created a Pinterest page called “Polkadot Chair Projects”, most of my past projects are there and I’ll keep it updated as I make new things. You can follow that board to keep up on what’s new here.
Second:
New social media links! YEAH!! You can find me on Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook easily. I’ve also changed my twitter user name to @polkadotchair, just to keep things simple and consistent.
The social media icons have also been added to the top of each post, to make it easy to share content.
Third:
Comments! I can now respond to your comments in the comment section!! In the past when people would ask questions and not leave their email address, I would not have any way to answer them. Now I can.
Also with comments, I’m trying out comment luv… basically if you’re logged into your blog and comment it will give you the choice of linking up one of your most recent posts to your comment..just a little way to drive some traffic your way… I’ll try it out for a while and see how it goes.
Fourth:
Featured Posts- You will now find on the side bar 5 featured posts (thanks Lil Luna for the great idea!). I’ll be highlighting past posts there, usually by season.
Few other random things:
-top 10 posts has now been moved to the menu bar
-you can link straight to my pattern shop, fourteen may from the top menu bar
-archives have been moved to the bottom
-if you find a broken link please let me know, most came over fine, but I do have to go in and manually change a few.
-the “roll call” of other bloggers will BE BACK! I know lots of you use that- I just need some time to add it back in.
-there are a few other bugs that I’m working out (including a weird thing with my header)- most should be fixed within a week. Thanks so much for being patient!
-when I moved my feed it sent the feed again to your blog readers- so sorry for the barrage of posts this morning! Hopefully I’ve got it all worked out!
Whew!! I think that’s all!!!
I have been sewing and crafting this past couple of weeks, but have not been able to post until the transition was finished (plus it took A LOT OF TIME to switch to wordpress), so most of my “blog time” has been dedicated to that- but I’ve got some fun projects I’m working on and will share with you soon! Thanks so much for reading!
The new platform looks great so far! As a blogger user seeing more people switch to WordPress, I’d love to know when/why people switch. I’m not tech savvy at all, so for the time being blogger works just fine. Any info you’ve gleaned in making the switch would be super helpful to me. Thanks!
this looks terrific!
p.s. did you know that your imagine letters in the second to last photo are out of order
Yes!! I didn’t even notice until after I took the photo and someone pointed it out– I was obviously distracted by the fabric below
Congrats on your new design! Looks great so far.
Congrats Melissa, it looks great! I adore your blog and think you are so talented!
Thanks Gretchen! I would say the same thing about you!!!
Is the Sydney skirt tutorial coming back? Fabric is cut, brand new ruffler foot is ready and I am all ready to sew but didn’t print off directions
Okay it’s back!
is there a way for you to make the new blog show the whole post in Google Reader? It only shows a few lines. You have to click to the blog to read the whole post which defeats the purpose of the blog reader.
Thanks!
Hi!
I’m still working out the kinks with the feeds with the changeover.. Having a full feed is a little complicated because you have to protect it from cloners- I need to do a bit more research before I can switch it over.
You’ll be so happy you did. I love WP! Good luck. Everything looks marvy so far!
Thank you!
I love the new look Melissa! I’ve been wanting to make the big leap and you have certainly inspired me. Everything is just so neat and tidy in those drop down menus! Just curious if you were sharing the name of your designer? Or did you do it all yourself? Thanks for the inspiration!
Hey! I don’t mind sharing at all, but I don’t think it will be much help. It’s actually all done by me and my sister- she does this kind of thing for a living and I BEGGED her to help me with the more technical end of things. She came to visit and we knocked it out at my dining room table over the course of a week. I know there are a lot of good WP designers out there though-