Today is Thursday, October 15th, 2026 and CRAYY.co is a whole 1 month old. I’ve been extremely busy blogging and building this site. In 1 month I have over 200 posts published and 61 pages. I’ve had more likes and comments left on this blog in this 1 month than I ever have on any other blog I’ve maintained on the WordPress platform since I got on it in 2014. I don’t know what that says about me as a blogger, but I apparently I started doing something right. In a quick time, I have had to change the way commenting can be done on this blog. You need to have a WordPress.com account in order to leave comments here. I have removed the ability to comment with a Facebook account because I am finding that links to Facebook profiles or pages either don’t work, or are fake, or are apparently made private, or for some reason cannot be viewed. If I cannot view your Facebook link, my site visitors can’t either, and your comment is not going up on this blog, but that doesn’t matter now because you can only comment when logged in with your WordPress.com account. While on the topic of comments, if your comment wasn’t approved, you need to work on your Gravatar profile, or your blog. I get that some people are on the WordPress.com platform simply to have a place to chat with some folks versus going out on social media. I know there are a lot of retired people here on this platform that fit that description. WordPress.com is actually a great place for that, and there is a very vibrant community of people from all walks of life from around the globe here, but I am also getting that some people simply don’t care for keeping their Gravatar profile, or their blog and websites up to date. Your comment might be a great one, but not if your profile and link is trash, or your blog hasn’t been updated in over six months. I’m not going to approve comments for people who were bored enough to say something, but not bored enough to build and maintain their platform and actually contribute something to the blogging community. I know from initial appearance my blog may not look like anything more than another chat spot over some pictures and daily writing prompts, but as a content creator and curator, I am maintaining a level of professionalism here, and a part of that means catering to people who hold the same interests I have in operating updated blogs and profiles versus the other. I chose the Bitacora WordPress theme for this site because I prefer a sidebar style layout for my blog, and it is just one out of 2 that I found available (the other one being Nook), and I liked the uncluttered look of Bitacora. I have been experimenting with adjusting the theme’s layout settings to make the layout appear as I want. For me, the original Bitacora theme is a little too narrow, but fortunately I’ve learned enough about Gutenburg and it’s block system to be able to make adustments. I like a layout that takes up at about 80% to 90% of the width in a normal size computer screen. So I’ve learned how to widen the theme a little bit to make it that way. I’ve also learned how to restructure the theme so that a web page background could be added while the blog content stays on a solid color or gradient color scheme. Over the next month I could be converting the layout to do that. Before Gutenburg came along, my favorite WordPress theme was Colinear. It allowed for easily adding web page backgrounds, and I used to love that. It’s an easy way to make a website look beautiful without too much effort. I got started on building a WordPress Support section on the blog. I will soon begin filling the posts for that with links to guides in the WordPress.com Support Center. Next I’m planning to add a section on the blog for curating Wikipedia articles, and I’ll soon add my Apps & Software Arsenal listings to the sidebar. Those will be links to the apps, software, and online tools I use the most to stay productive. So a lot of work and accomplishments made in the first month with plans for continued growth.
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