About
MOTHER: A female parent.
That’s me. Female – check. Parent – check, check.
I am a mother of two, a wife of one and a friend of many. I am an urban planner, wanna-be farmer, knitter, baker, writer, crafter and outdoor enthusiast. The ratio varies from day to day.
I write about words that capture aspects of my life. This blog is simply my attempt to find a little meaning in the madness.
Hi again, DM! I have been enjoying your motherly ramblings immensely this week, and have continued efforts to make my own blog increasingly functional, although I seem to be having a problem getting my posts to behave! Aside from appearing on my ‘front page,’ I’d love them (or links to them) to show up when one clicks on my tabs (which I assume are considered category headings). I have asked many people about how they make this happen, and all they say is that I must have chosen a theme that doesn’t allow for this. Having changed themes about 14 times now, I am convinced that it isn’t the theme issue, rather, that I am, apparently, category-impaired. Could you please humour me with a brief explanation of how you get posts to appear under specific headings, in addition to showing up on your front page? I would be eternally grateful. Many thanks!
-winnwords
The “headings” on your page are actually the “pages” as I understand it. Categories are something you assign to each post. If you want to be able to search by category, I think you do something with the ‘category cloud’ under Widgets (on your dashboard). You should check out Feisty Red Hair’s page (http://feistyredhair.wordpress.com/). She has a set-up that allows you to search by category.
Wow! Thanks, DM! I have no idea how this worked, but it did! The secret seems to have been in the cloud. I’m not sure the given structure is how I would have created it, but I think I may just have tamed it for my purposes! Inspired by the experience, I have written a short piece entitled Blog Triumph! First time ever for me, writing directly onto a post page. Up to this point, I have carefully honed then copied and pasted selected files onto the blog. I wondered if most bloggers sit down daily or weekly and do the stream-of-consciousness thing right onto a post, and if I am in the anxious minority, working outside the blog and then moving things in…what’s your impression? Thanks again for your suggestion!
winnwords
Glad it worked for you! I’m a Word, copy-and-paste girl myself.
Your blog is so neat and clean. I’ve enjoyed catching up on some of your past posts, and I look forward to keeping up with them in the future.
Thanks. Glad to have you!
I love your blog and its format. Just wonderful. It’s so great to have that kind of a hook on which to catch our fleeting lives as mothers.
Thanks!
Hi! Just popped in for the first time as a little twinkling start popped up in that top corner while I was playing around with my theme! Which of course I then found amusing that themes and categories were being discussed here.
On the point of categories – some themes make the categories more visible – in fact the one I just switched out of had the categories neatly on the top but otherwise it was so busy. I just switched to the most simple theme as of yet for the sake of easy readability but I really do want categories on top. One of these days I might buy a theme so I can customize.
I look forward to reading here – motherhood does take a lot of defining and redefining. I love your title!
lovely blog
love the way u explain about yourself too 