I’ve spent a good chunk of my time the past few days thinking about and working on the Fruitcake Society’s web site. I’ve officially turned off the circa 1998 page and turned on the new and improved 2014 version, set up on a WordPress frame. Still some work to do and links to find and fix up and a lot of throwing the name and glory that is the Society for the Protection and Preservation of Fruitcake to the winds in order to draw in the masses…

I am mostly a thrasher and brute force sort of worker here – nothing particularly skilled or elegant about how I work. I know enough about it to figure out what has to be done or why something doesn’t work but it’s not always pretty.

I did learn a few new tricks though about the JetPack set of plug ins that come with WordPress like: there’s a little thing called Publicize that lets you link your new blog post to social media like Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler etc. You can only link one account for each of those but that’s ok. I’d been using a plug-in, NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster which does a good job most of the time but has its own set of quirks. The JetPack plug in doesn’t give you quite the control over what gets posted but if it works and works well, I can live with that.

I also found a cute little widget, Social Media Widget, which lets you put nice “Follow Me!” icons in your WP sidebar for all the many social media.