A Website Survival Story

I first started building websites with WordPress many many many years ago. There’s something about the way it works, its logic, its quirks, that just clicked for me. So naturally, I built my own site. Over the years, I’ve helped a few other folks build theirs too. This site itself has worn many hats, explored different topics, and even gone through a few identity crises. Fun fact: I started it before social media was really a thing and used it mostly to repost memes. Yes, I am officially that old.

Building websites is fun, but it’s not always smooth sailing. Plugins can be tricky. Sometimes they play nice, sometimes they absolutely don’t. Recently, I installed a plugin called Imagify, and well, let’s just say my site had a rough few days. Photos were showing up cut off, distorted, and galleries refused to behave. For a photographer, a broken website is basically a crisis.

Trying to get help was another adventure. In this era of email only support, Imagify replied about once every 24 hours, and their advice wasn’t exactly life changing. So I spent the better part of a week patching things up myself. Some galleries had to be completely reworked, some photos had to be removed, and certain displays were abandoned entirely. It wasn’t perfect, but the site is back up and running for now.

Every December, I do a major review and overhaul of the site. That will be the time to dig deeper into what went wrong, maybe fix lingering issues, and perhaps even give the site another facelift. I’d love to hear your suggestions, anything that could make this corner of the internet a better place.

Thanks for stopping by, and here’s to photos that behave and websites that cooperate.