I made the move from blogger to wordpress to have some more control and some more plugins available. I made the move in January and finally got around to making some of the changes I have wanted. Only took three months!
I finally added index pages. I don’t have all the post us there yet but if you click on the tabs at the top you can finally search around the blog a little more. Figured it might be helpful for you to be able to find some new stuff without having to know what you were looking for. I made my gallery pages using Inlinkz project manager tool (not a sponsored post). I love it so far. It is taking a fair amount of time to get all the links in there but it is coming along. Apparently the presentation can be changed but I haven’t gotten around to testing that out yet. Until I get to that I hope you find it useful even if it isn’t pretty.
The other big change is I finally got to add a plugin so my recipes are printable. I love blogs that make it easy for me to print the recipe. I still like to print my recipes so finding recipes that have a picture dividing all the instructions and ingredients makes me a little crazy. It is a waste of paper when I want to print the recipe out. I usually end up going back and forth between my computer and the stove a million times when I want to make those. I think those posts look beautiful I just wish they would put a printable recipe at the end. At the very least put the complete recipe there so I only have to print one page! Ok, rant is done.
I think I have most of my recipes converted over now so they should be much easier for you to use. I also look forward to seeing if I can update the style of these and make them look a little fancier. If step up my game and my recipes take off on ziplist they will help me make a custom design. I have a long way to go until that but a girl can dream.
Ziplist has some cool features for you as well. You can store recipes from around the internets (including mine!) and create a quick grocery list with the recipes you pick.
Now that you are caught up with the blog how about some updates with me…I am in week 7 of Couch to 5k. That means I only have two more weeks after this! On Monday I ran 25 minutes which ended up being just under 3 miles so I am almost to the 5k mark. I really need to find a 5k to sign up for so I can really give this a whirl. I am so excited that I can run for 25 minutes without stopping. I even managed to push myself at then end of my run. I never thought that would be possible and I was pretty impressed with myself. After finishing the Whole 30 we have been pretty good and sticking with good clean eating. We however, leave for Disneyland on this week so all bets are off! We are calling all vacations an off time and not stressing about exactly what we eat. It is vacation after all. We will stick to our three meals we just won’t as rigid about what we eat. I am not missing my mint julep or my abuelita hot chocolate from the jolly holiday cafe. Everything is jollier with Mary! Cheerio!!
Keep up the great work in c25k! And I’m glad all your blog updates went successfully
Thanks Kenz. We got a little derailed on the c25k on our Disneyland trip but we are up and running again. Should complete it just before we go back to Disneyland!
I’m behind on your blog! I love the updates you’ve made. I just got the ZipList plugin, too. I’ve used it for two recipes and really like it. Now I just need to go back and update all my old recipes … ha, that may take a while!
Funny I am really behind on my blog too! I need to catch up with yours as well.