{"id":108,"date":"2008-01-30T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T00:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2008\/creating-the-kazology-blogroll-part-1\/"},"modified":"2022-05-07T14:21:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T19:21:06","slug":"creating-the-kazology-blogroll-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/30\/creating-the-kazology-blogroll-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating the Kazology Blogroll &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kazology Blog uses Word Press, no surprise there. What makes it fun is the amount of customization even a &#8220;non-programmer&#8221; like me can do to make it a personal thing.<br \/>\nYou can get thousands of themes, and thousands of various plugins to modify the basic installation of WP. Even better are &#8220;Widgets&#8221; which are an even simpler version of a plugin. You only have to know how to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Copy a file from the web to a directory on your server or home computer<\/li>\n<li>Unzip the file<\/li>\n<li>Move it to the proper directory in the Word Press install on the host server.<\/li>\n<li>Access the WP Admin Control Panel to activate the plugin \/ Widget<\/li>\n<li>Access the WP Admin Control Panel configure settings, if any<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>How simple is that!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I enjoy trying out new plugins, <a title=\"Relief - after I screwed it up!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2007\/relief-it-feels-great\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">although sometime with nasty results<\/a>. To be fair, normally all you have to do is delete the offending plugin from the Host Server and you are back in business. Even then I did manage to lock myself completely once. Guess what? Another plugin to the rescue. (Maybe not technically a plug in, but PHP file, but you use it just like a plugin.)<\/p>\n<p>So where the heck is all this going &#8211; to my latest project &#8211; The BlogRoll page. It seems everyone posts a list of links to other blogs\/websites they like, but it seems the normal default is just that, a list of links. Boring, unordered list like &#8220;Georges Web Site&#8221;, &#8220;A Cool Web Site&#8221;, &#8220;A boring Web Site&#8221;, &#8220;Aardvarks Are Us&#8221; to &#8220;Zebra&#8217;s need a home too&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I didn&#8217;t like that list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like that list. So a search began. While there are a number of plugins out there that do this the one I found was &#8220;<a title=\"Powerblogroll post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2008\/setting-up-zoc-powerblogroll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zo&#8217;C&#8217;s Powerblogroll<\/a>&#8220;. I downloaded and installed. Oops&#8230; had some trouble here. It is not a widget, so requires some knowledge of coding to put the BlogRoll where you want it. That wasn&#8217;t getting me to far. I had used another widget &#8220;Widgetize Anything&#8221; to convert a Plugin to a Widget so gave it a try. With a lot of playing around with the single line of PHP code I finally got it working! At that point I had a nice BlogRoll in the sidebar. Looked pretty good with a nice Favicon and the name showing.\u00a0Not quite satisfied I thought I would add a short description to let the reader know what &#8220;Aardvarks Are Us&#8221; is all about. (in ten words or less&#8230;) That worked great also. But did make the sidebar column sort of long, okay, but sort of long. Then I starting adding a few more links to things I use in Word Press or the web page itself (some day I am going to figure out how to switch the current home page to a page in Word Press . . some day.) At this point it just wasn&#8217;t going to be practical any longer to keep the BlogRoll in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 of how I created the Powerblogroll on Kazology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22,18,16,21,20],"series":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-playground","tag-blogroll","tag-coding","tag-plugins","tag-projects","tag-word-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}