There were a couple of topics I was considering for this blog post. I could talk about how I had settled on a three person capstone team, and had done everything instructed in order to form the team, yet got assigned a different team. I could talk about how long it took for my team to do our design plan, 3 hours of zoom! However, let’s be really meta and talk about the art of blogging itself.
After last week’s post, I was feeling pretty good about this blog. It seemed like WordPress was easy to use and also pretty intuitive. Today is the due date for the next blog entry, so the plan was to come home from work, pull up my blog and simply create another post. I had the blog bookmarked and was hoping to whip it out in under an hour, maybe even 30 minutes. So I go to the bookmarked site, and see my first post. Good, I can probably just click on some “+” icon and add another post. Hmmm… that’s odd, there isn’t a “+” icon. Well, they really should add that. It makes sense to have it on one of the older posts. I proceed to navigate to the top right. There’s probably a menu or something here. I look for some settings icon, but there are no icons or links to click on. Maybe I just add paragraph blocks to my first post? I go to edit the first post, and instantly realize that no, this isn’t how to add another post. Getting slightly frustrated, I reluctantly Google “WordPress how to create new post”. One link says to add “/admin” to the end of the blog to login. I pull up my blog tab, and add “admin” to the post URL, since it already had the “/” part. That gave me an error. Ok, maybe it actually is “//admin” for the end of the URL. I try that, but not surprisingly get another error. Now, in a state of half rage and half panic, I Google “how to log into wordpress”. How did the developers of WordPress get away with creating blogs that people can’t log into? One question begets another, and I start to ponder deeper philosophical questions about my very being… Am I too picky? Do I get too easily frustrated? As I’m contemplating these things, the Google search completes and shows that I have to add “admin” to the site’s base URL. I had added “admin” to the first blog post’s URL, instead of to the blog’s URL, which is why it didn’t work before. With that said, this seems like some gross oversight, and that you should see some form of login UI when you go to your blog URL. If you see this post, then that means I’ve successfully mastered the art of adding a post to my WordPress blog. If there’s only the initial post, then the WordPress developers probably read this post and deleted it (after ninja editing their code to include a login obviously).
