Author: JenT
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If The Biggest Category On Your Blog is “Uncategorized,” Read This Post
WordPress.com hosts millions of websites and getting discovered, read and followed can be a real challenge. One thing I notice when visiting some WordPress.com sites (and I’m doing more of that lately) is a complete lack of post Tags or Categories on the Post I’m reading. Too many site owners start out blogging and stay…
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Finding Hidden Classic Themes: A Field Guide
From about June 2025 or possibly even earlier, Classic themes were removed from view in the WordPress.com Theme Showcase. It doesn’t appear that these themes are retired. I believe the intention in removing them from view is to encourage site owners to move to themes that fully support Blocks and the full Site Editor. Pro…
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The Classic Editor: A 2026 Field Guide
Last updated 22 February 2026 The good news about the WordPress Classic Editor end of life is that it’s now 2026 and WordPress site owners continue to have access to the Classic Editor plugin. Apparently, we’re still in the “as long as necessary” time frame. The official WordPress plugin today has upwards of 9 Million…
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Change Log January 2026-Post Switch Oddities
And, done. Well, mostly. It was an intensive month while I tidied up the back end of this site, visited each post and page, updated or archived posts and looked for a Block theme to replace my site’s longstanding Classic theme. Here are some things I noticed along the way that might be helpful to…
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In Search of An Accessibility-Ready Theme
One of the biggest challenges I have right now is finding a theme I like that is “Accessibility Ready”. A long time ago I committed myself to use themes that are because it just makes good sense to make your site and content available to the widest number of people possible. But Accessibility is not…
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Archived Posts
Preparing my site for the changeover to a block theme and possibly a change of focus is an intensive effort (with much coffee!). Rereading and editing posts (Wait! Where did those Classic Blocks come from!? Block Encountered Unexpected Errors! Pullquotes Deprecated!) along with seeing what content resonates with readers made it very clear to me…
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