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Now that I own caasterisk.com, I have an interesting dilemma. If I purchase (a subscription to) G-Suite, I can have an email address of <name>@caasterisk.com hosted by WordPress. Which would be cool. However, as I already have multiple other email addresses, for differing reasons, adding another is not a clear win. But I have an… Read more

When I “registered” C A Asterisk in 1989, by publishing a classified ad notification in the News Gazette (Champaign, IL), I recognized that some day I would want a website. However, in the 90’s there was a folk-wisdom that if you searched on a domain name, you were exposing your interest, and it would be… Read more

Solving the “read more” mystery was easy. If a blog entry is short, you see it all. If it is long, you see “read more”. If it is just right, so the text is short but the video takes up space, then you see the text (in the digest) but don’t see the video, and… Read more

Or OneDrive? While WP does not allow one to upload video media to a free account (must upgrade to Premium, for video *stored* by WP), it is likely that a YouTube thumbnail (embed) can be placed on a free account site, to play content hosted elsewhere… For example: Note for next time – I am… Read more

I am beginning to become cavalier about deleting blocks. They are just text, or images, or groups, or other “stuff” that was provided with the theme from the start. Deleting them allows me to make the Home page simple. I can always add in blocks, later. I hope 🙂 (How do I insert emoji’s?😊 right-click…… Read more

My blog page has so much wasted white space, and the font(s) seem enormous! And, double-spaced. I don’t want to get into the CSS stuff, but…

I came to realize that to create a link, I need to have text-on-the-page, highlighted, before I can turn it into a link. I had been clicking on the link button, but could not find a way to enter both the URL (easy) and the displayed text… Having created a link on my home page… Read more

I am going to need an About page, and a Contacts page, unless I want to keep the default one-page theme. Created “About”, but did not change it… Perhaps this is the critical bit – that until something is changed, there is no urgency to “Publish”, and thus nothing much changes. I also put some… Read more

I should have begun this from the beginning… Site created last week (1 Aug), following meeting with R. “Professional” theme selected, via the wizard, since “Hobby” and “Store” seemed wrong. Played a little, but no real progress.