LeliaThomas.Com

Conversion to a Semi-Tumblelog

For the last week or so, I’ve been working on converting this website into a partial tumblelog. I really should thank Ben Gray and Shawn Anthony for their posts about creating a tumblelog with WordPress. I’ve done this, because I wanted to present content on the homepage differently, more interestingly, and I think the tumblelog format is a cool one to do just that. In the process, I scrapped a lot of old categories, in favor of a select handful. As one can see on the homepage, content from each category is displayed slightly differently now; meanwhile, the entry pages remain the same. Here are the current categories:

• Book Reviews
• Education
• Hate Mail
• Journal
• Movie Reviews
• Music
• Pictures
• Quotes
• Society
• Videos

Society is perhaps the broadest of the categories, encompassing my entries concerning issues of politics, media/new media and morality. Quotes and Pictures are the newest and most different categories. I have gone back a year and properly categorized those entries. Entries made prior to June 2007 will be unorganized until I find a good and efficient way to batch edit entries in the latest version of WordPress.

The reason for this conversion is that I find that with the less time I have, the less likely I am to adhere to previously-successful posting norms, like Hump Day Funnies, MP3 Thursdays and so on. That method of writing was good for me for a long while, but now I cannot so easily commit to certain days, and postdating material is easier sounding than it actually is (i.e., I have to find that material to postdate!). A tumblelog will enable me to post a little more flexibly, and users will be able to navigate to their favorite content more easily on the homepage.

I have also changed the RSS feed to show the category of a post before its title. This is to avoid confusion about what sort of entry you are viewing in your feed readers if you subscribe to my general/overall site feed (and most of you do). I know in the past some of you have thought my fiction was reality! That should clear things up!

I’ve also very shamefully added Twitter.

Enjoy the new style! Feedback is welcome, as always.

Comments ordered from oldest to newest.

Ben

Sweet! I love tumblelogs because they’re what I like to read. Pith rules in my AADD world :) If you have any questions feel free to send email my way, I love helping.

Lelia

Thanks so much, Ben. :) You may regret telling me that, though! I think your l33t coding skillz are a bit beyond mine. :P

Ben

Flattery, all flattery. But seriously, I’m willing to help any way I can (allowing for my hecktic schedule). :D