Tag: Updates

October Updates

Hey Birdies!

October shall be the month of site-wide updates and upgrades. I’m keeping the look and feel pretty much the same, but I’m adding functionality and content. For starters, I’m going to try to get my comment widget working. It’s still throwing an error every time someone tries to submit a comment, but I do see the comments that come through. Hopefully I can find a solution for that.

 

I’m also going to be dropping downloadable tea guides around the site. I haven’t quite figured out how file transfer works around here yet, but that’s why I’m giving myself a month to do it, lol.

 

In terms of general post content, I’m going to aim for 2-3 posts per week on Swallow Song, as well as guest posts in other places. I still write for Muslimah Media Watch (I’ve actually recently taken over their Twitter account as well) and I’ll see if I can get some guest posts up elsewhere.

 

Just a heads up, my next few Saturday Series posts will be hella personal and potentially quite intense. I feel like I’d be doing myself and the world a disservice if I don’t use this platform for a PSA every now and then.

 

I think that about sums up what’s in store for October. If you have suggestions, drop them in the comments below (don’t be afraid of the scary comment error <3).

 

 

 

I’m Finally on Bloglovin’

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

The past few days I’ve been seeing Bloglovin links and references on some of the feeds I follow. Previously, I’d been using Feedly to keep up with blog feeds. I highly recommend Feedly, because there’s virtually no learning curve. It’s easy to find and follow blogs and to create categories so you can split your reading up by type of content. There are paid features for Feedly, but I’ve never needed to use them.

Because so many people used Bloglovin, though, I decided to check it out. I figured something with “blog” in the name was probably relevant to what I’m doing here. It turns out that Bloglovin serves a similar purpose to Feedly; it gathers all the feeds you follow in one place. I’ve only been on Bloglovin for a few hours, but I noticed an option to create an account and “claim” a blog. In order to claim a blog, I have to make a post with the link I’ve included at the top of this post, and Bloglovin will register the connection. I couldn’t find my blog on there through a simple search, so I’m guessing I have to claim the blog to make it visible. Regardless of whether this is true, I don’t see any harm on jumping on this bandwagon and making my blog at least a little bit easier to find. If I like Bloglovin, I may even start including other integrations such as the Bloglovin follow button and comment add-ons. For now, I’m just trying to see how this experiment goes.

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