Worrying about the Blog

Worrying about the Blog

Following on from Saturday’s post, where I mentioned me being a “worrier”, I thought I would attempt to gain some information that just might help me to remove one worry; namely, this blog. “Worrying” is probably not the right word to be using in this case — “concern”, or even just “thoughts”, might be better.

I haven’t been particularly well again this past week or so. It’s the same old problem. But, because I haven’t been feeling so good, I’ve been relying more than usual on some of the really helpful features of WordPress: draft posting; and future posting. I’ve usually got a couple of posts part written, or even fully written, and saved as a draft post ready to be published when I’m ready for it. And I very often write a post one day, and set it to publish the next. The posts I’ll have in draft form will be such things as “Inspirational Stories” and “Jokes”, the kind of thing that isn’t date-dependent.

Focus
Using those posts this week got me thinking/worrying about the blog, and particularly its focus. For a long while after starting the blog I very rarely posted anything other than my reflection based on the Collect, which meant that the blog was really focussed on one thing. But recently I’ve been adding more things in on a regular basis, “Inspirational Stories”; “Jokes”; my recent “Sermons”; and now the “Friday Foto” too, plus a few other miscellaneous items. Those new items have, I think, changed the focus of the blog completely.

I guess I’m really just wondering if that is okay, or if it would be better to keep the original, much tighter, focus on here and maybe start another more general type blog elsewhere. I would value the opinion of anyone who reads my blog on this — whether through the comments here, or through the “Contact” form linked in the main navigation menu above. Do, please, let me know what you think.

Front page
I’ve also been wondering about the front page. Currently, I display just the last couple of posts, and usually in full (unless they are particularly long). I just wonder if it might be preferable to show more posts, but only the first paragraph or two; then you would need to click a link to read the full post. Again, do please let me know what you think, through the comments or the “Contact” form.

A shock
As a self-confessed worrier, I received something of a shock a few days ago, connected to the blog. I don’t get too concerned about the various statistics that are available about any website. But I do keep a bit of an eye on things occasionally. I use WordPresses own Blog Stats plugin. One of the things it will give an indication on is the search terms that have been used that pointed to the site. And there in the list of search terms last week was, “funeral paul sibley”.

As a worrier who hasn’t been feeling at all well, that really made me sit up and take notice!