Tag Archives: blocks

Today I choose to binge (TIC00050e)

The PolyBlog
September 10 2020

It was a long day.

I was out the door at 7:30 a.m., which is not that early NORMALLY, but in a COVID world, it is unheard of, in order to get to a health appointment with Andrea for 7:45 a.m. Easy for me, I watched Monk episodes on Prime while I waited.

Then drove Andrea home and went to McDonald’s to pick up a treat for the three of us — McMuffins for Andrea and I, hot cakes for Jacob. Then I was in meetings pretty much all day.

I don’t just mean a lot of meetings. I mean that I was in meetings most of the morning, went upstairs to grab lunch just after 2:00 p.m., ate at my desk while preparing for other meetings, did more work until almost 5:45 p.m., finished off some stuff on my computer in time for dinner at 6:30 p.m., and then was back to my PC at 7:00 p.m. for a night-time Ottawa Meetup for WordPress users.

The local group was presenting on Blocks, and since I’m struggling with a bit of block stuff, AND that I will eventually need to engage some of this community to help solve my WP problems, I need to make the effort to join in for their meetings when I’m available. I was practically asleep by 8:00 p.m. in my chair, and I can’t swear I didn’t nod off at one point.

Good presentation, got a lot of great info on things I didn’t know, flattening the learning curve in this instance, but it was 2 hours of extra learning tonight. Just in time to try out two collections while it was all still fresh in my mind.

I’m totally fried. Not completely in a bad way, just a really long day.

And tomorrow morning, it starts again with an early morning jaunt to pick up a telescope that is being donated to our astronomy group, so early morning volunteer work. Hopefully I can stay awake for some later meetings in the day!

Today I choose to binge on WordPress and work.

What choices are you making today?

Testing Qubely Blocks

The PolyBlog
September 9 2020

I love block collections, and Qubely was apparently one I missed in my reviewing. Right up front, it adds a big IMPORT LAYOUT button up to the left of the content editor window, which is where they have links to various block patterns / mini layouts. There aren’t many free ones, but a lot of PRO ones are listed. That’s usually a huge red flag for me — an app that serves basically to market their other services. The collection is large with 29 separate blocks. Let’s work our way through them one by one: Accordion: Nothing flashy but totally … Continue reading →

Trying out Kioken Blocks

The PolyBlog
September 9 2020

Previous readers of the blog know that I am intrigued every time I see a new block collection and want to see what they have to offer. I was looking at a new post tool and it listed all the collections it was compatible with, most of which I had seen. But it listed one called “Kioken Blocks” which I had never heard of, so I wanted to give it a try. It comes with 19 blocks, and so let’s see how they do on my site… Accordion: Simple vertical accordion block, click to expand; Container Row: A common block … Continue reading →

Reviewing GetWid’s blocks for WordPress

The PolyBlog
September 4 2020

I am constantly on a search for new blocks to make my workflow more consistent, particularly in areas where I don’t even know I could improve things. So I’ve already reviewed 11 block collections, and this is number 12. Let’s see what I get out of it: Accordion: Expandable, but doesn’t seem to be collapsible except by clicking another one. Advanced Spacer: Yep, it’s for controlling space and not much else. Anchor: Useful instead of coding your own. Banner: Same as headers in most other collections, very large image with the ability to put text over it AND you can … Continue reading →

Today I choose to search for the right tool (TIC00044d)

The PolyBlog
September 4 2020

I have a dream, except my dream is a lot smaller than racial equality. My dream today is simply that I can create a nice table on my WordPress site that doesn’t go crazy. So let’s start with the nature of the problem. I have a post, about the top hits of 1943. It’s part of a long-term project I am working on that will eventually have me review all the Billboard hits from 1943 up to the present. Fun, right? Okay, maybe not, but I find some of it pretty interesting. I did the first year as a test, … Continue reading →