Learning how to use wordpress…
in my current state of mind is truly challenging. Not that wordpress seems difficult, but that my mind on the weekends wants to rest, and think about my family, and try to hold on to my memories of every single thing that happened in Owen’s life. Unfortunately, I also think about every single thing that happened in Owen’s life that I don’t know about. Not the usual what did he eat that day kinds of stuff, but the where the hell did he go that night he went missing kinds of stuff. Lightyears away from a typical day of parenting.
I started this blog yesterday, and have had to rewrite things several times because of forgetting to click on a particular button, or because I wrote it as a post instead of a page, and didn’t know how to just copy it over. While this was frustrating, it also made me actually concentrate and read information that normally, I wouldn’t care about. My family is so consumed with losing Owen, and finding out how he died, that it’s hard to kick into learning mode, when our grief is still so fresh, so strong, so unrelenting.
The somewhat comforting bonus of this learning experience, is that it means my brain still works. Whew. Just a tad slower than before May 29.
I still can’t figure out how to keep a static post at the top, as the instructions in the FAQ don’t match up with the information that’s actually in that location. So, who cares, right?
To keep one post at the top always, you have to keep changing the date on it so it’s always the most recently posted. Go to Edit, and on the sidebar of that Edit page you can see at the bottom a place to change the date and time. It’s a pain, though, so my usual recommendation is to make it a static page instead and set that to be the start page of your blog or put the contents in a text widget and put it at the very top of your sidebar.
Thanks for the help with the text widget. The other way would have driven me even crazier, and I’m trying to avoid anything that might push me over the proverbial edge. There’s plenty of that, already.