Comments on: To Start a New Blog? https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2019/08/22/to-start-a-new-blog/ Games, Geekery, Life Sun, 25 Aug 2019 23:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Chestnut https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2019/08/22/to-start-a-new-blog/#comment-907 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 23:02:29 +0000 https://gamergirlconfessions.com/?p=1077#comment-907 In reply to Joseph Skyrim.

Thanks for giving me some more questions to think about! They’ll help me think about it a little more focused, I think. 🙂

]]> By: Chestnut https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2019/08/22/to-start-a-new-blog/#comment-905 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 23:00:10 +0000 https://gamergirlconfessions.com/?p=1077#comment-905 In reply to Alli.

A plugin might be a possibility to look into as well, but then how would it play with feedreaders is another question.

For what it’s worth, I spent a lot of time at first with SFW stuff going, “Well I’m doing crafty things, should I include them?”. And I essentially came down to, if folks don’t like reading about it, they can skip the post, because who wants to put the time and effort into TOO MANY outlets? At the end of the day, we’re multi-faceted people, and we can enjoy things outside of gaming, even if we classify our blogs as “gaming blogs”. To be honest, some of my favorite posts from folks have been non-gaming related, even though they’re blogs are centered around gaming. 🙂

]]> By: Chestnut https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2019/08/22/to-start-a-new-blog/#comment-903 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 22:58:02 +0000 https://gamergirlconfessions.com/?p=1077#comment-903 In reply to Wilhelm Arcturus.

You can! Check out Wicked Whims (https://wickedwhimsmod.com/help)!

That’s interesting that they have a weird line regarding porn, when a lot of sex bloggers I know run off of WordPress with a vanity domain. I’ll have to do some more research into it!

]]> By: Chestnut https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2019/08/22/to-start-a-new-blog/#comment-902 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 22:55:44 +0000 https://gamergirlconfessions.com/?p=1077#comment-902 In reply to Stroeb.

Thanks! I don’t know that I’d do a subdomain related to this one. After ruminating, some, I’m thinking of just doing a free WP blog and attaching a subdomain to it from a different URL. But I still haven’t decided, lol.

]]> By: Stroeb https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2019/08/22/to-start-a-new-blog/#comment-901 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 11:53:05 +0000 https://gamergirlconfessions.com/?p=1077#comment-901 A new blog sounds like the best idea, but the domain question is hard.

Maybe a new subdomain of this one? something.gamergirlconfessions.com might make sense and allow you to keep things vaguely together. That’s what I’ve been doing with my domain and it works quite well. Keeps them separate but aligned.

Good luck deciding!

]]> By: Joseph Skyrim https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2019/08/22/to-start-a-new-blog/#comment-898 Thu, 22 Aug 2019 23:26:40 +0000 https://gamergirlconfessions.com/?p=1077#comment-898 Resource management is what I’d be looking at first because time is always in short supply. Can you really keep two blogs running or is just one difficult to keep up to date? Does your host allow for such content with NSFW tags/hiding options? Are you able to post that content in a way that you won’t feel embarrassed about it on your main blog? Why would it embarrass you anyway?

The good news is there is no wrong answer to your dilemma, because ultimately you’ll pick what works best for you. You just have to ask the right questions. 🙂

]]> By: Wilhelm Arcturus https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2019/08/22/to-start-a-new-blog/#comment-897 Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:52:31 +0000 https://gamergirlconfessions.com/?p=1077#comment-897 Wait, The Sims can be dirty? Tell me more!

If you want to be free to do what you please, you probably need to self-host. I know WP.com can get weird about the dividing line for porn, and I guess they just bought Tumblr, but only after the great porn purge. Blogger lets you flag for adult content, requiring viewers to login in order to get past it, but it is still Blogger.

]]> By: Alli https://gamergirlconfessions.com/2019/08/22/to-start-a-new-blog/#comment-895 Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:41:22 +0000 https://gamergirlconfessions.com/?p=1077#comment-895 I ask myself this a lot–not NSFW stuff but I’ll think “maybe I should start a knitting blog” or “maybe I should start a cooking blog” or whatever hobby is grabbing my attention most at the time. I wonder if people reading my existing blog will even want to see that content. Of course, pictures of yarn are a bit less controversial. I wonder if WordPress has a plugin that would allow you to tag some posts “NSFW” and then people could optionally hide or show them?

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