{"id":3,"date":"2012-04-02T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=3"},"modified":"2012-04-02T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T03:32:39","slug":"in-a-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/04\/in-a-happy-place.html","title":{"rendered":"In a Happy Place…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is yet another test of some additional capabilities for my new blog. I needed to re-establish the connection for those who receive e-mails of my post, but not from FeedBurner.<\/p>\n

For the past two days straight, I’ve been tweaking and massaging the settings on my new blog location and I think I’m in a happy place. I can sleep again.<\/p>\n

Not only was I trying to transfer the content of the old blog, but I also wanted to replicate the “sidebar” items, such as the Facebook link, the Twitter feed, the weather webcam, the suggested relevant posts after each post, the tag cloud and my subscription box.<\/p>\n

My new blogging program, WordPress, uses “plug-ins<\/a>” to bring those features to the new blog, and it took some work to find all those appropriate plug-ins.<\/p>\n

Today was spent working with keeping all my Google\/Yahoo search presence established. \u00a0Here’s an example, one of the most popular searches this past months that been bringing people to my blog is a search on “Akers of Strawberries.” \u00a0A local you-pick farm. I’m flattered that one of the top returns on that search on Google is to this blog post: http:\/\/vollmerdp.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/florida-discoveries-9-akers-of.html<\/a>. At first, all “redirects” to my new blog — a line of code I had put in the old blog — simply sent readers to my blog homepage. I had to install a “plug in” that allowed that particular post to redirect to its new, more specific, home: http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/04\/florida-discoveries-9-akers-of-strawberries.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The last thing on my “New Blog To-Do” list is to get those pictures at the top more personalized. I’m excited about this, I’ve been thinking about what pictures to include, from pictures my flowers to running to Disney to Air Force! I’ll get to that later this week.<\/p>\n

Thanks everyone for your patience during this journey. I’m certainly learning a lot by going from HTML-type blog management to the more-flexible PHP-based<\/a> blogging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is yet another test of some additional capabilities for my new blog. I needed to re-establish the connection for those who receive e-mails of my post, but not from FeedBurner. For the past two days straight, I’ve been tweaking and massaging the settings on my new blog location and I think I’m in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":589,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/06\/happy-belated-fathers-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":3,"position":0},"title":"Happy Belated Father’s Day!","date":"20 June 11","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Belated Father's Day to any of my Dad readers! \u00a0We were happy to get to spend time with Dave's Dad early in the day at Dave's family reunion in Pennsylvania, then we drove down to my parents' house in West Virginia in time for dinner with my Dad. Earlier\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-RmP52g4aKw0\/Tf-YB1BEpLI\/AAAAAAABWzk\/CmFBGyihTFg\/s400\/Dave_layout.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":281,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/12\/another-makeover.html","url_meta":{"origin":3,"position":1},"title":"Another Makeover!","date":"17 December 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I gave up the 3-column format...as happy as I was to have it, there was still space on the edges not being fully used. So I reverted to the 2 column format again, but was pleasantly surprised I was able to keep the cake lady picture. Whoo hoo!","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":120,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/04\/need-html-assistanceadvice.html","url_meta":{"origin":3,"position":2},"title":"Need HTML Assistance\/Advice","date":"13 April 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey -- if anyone knows how I can break into the blog-format code so I can maximize the blank space on the left and right sides of my blog, please send me a note or leave me a comment. I'd be happy to send you the blog code and you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"air force\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":699,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/01\/happy-new-year-its-resolution-time-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":3,"position":3},"title":"Happy New Year! It’s Resolution Time….Again….","date":"02 January 12","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy New Year everyone! \u00a0Our family had a fun weekend celebrating with friends and some folks from Dave's squadron. \u00a0One of his senior NCOs was promoted this week, so he had double reason to celebrate!As usual, it's time for everyone to come forward with their resolutions. \"I will eat less\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inquisitr.com\/wp-content\/2011\/12\/calvin-and-hobbes.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":152,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/05\/a-new-blogosphere-friend.html","url_meta":{"origin":3,"position":4},"title":"A New Blogosphere Friend","date":"29 May 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi again!Eventually I'll get around to writing about what's REALLY going on in my life: keeping the boys happy, planning our trip to Nebraska, and keeping all of the contractors working on our house straight. Today should be a relatively relaxing day -- the termite treatment is done, the remnants\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":875,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/04\/please-keep-up-the-great-comments-still-troubleshooting.html","url_meta":{"origin":3,"position":5},"title":"Please Keep Up the Great Comments – Still Troubleshooting!","date":"14 April 12","format":false,"excerpt":"I now have LiveFyre itself on board to help me troubleshoot things. \u00a0I have flipped an additional switch in the LiveFyre settings and if you could continue to leave FB and blog comments I can see what is working and what isn't. I'm now about to try some Twitter testing...so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"baseball\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/photo1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}