Authory: Online Service to Backup and Share Your Writing

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Authory portfolio page showing a two-column grid of articles, each with title, image, date published, and source.

Imagine your excitement when you try out a new online platform that allows you to publish your writing easily.

Without needing to know how to code.

You publish posts and articles regularly, gaining a following for your writing.

A year goes by. Maybe five years.

And you’ve become expert at using the platform, publishing your writing, and interacting with your readers.

Only to wake up one morning to an email message announcing the platform is shutting down.

And there may or may not be a way to export your content.

Ouch.

That happened to me.

Twice. Continue reading Authory: Online Service to Backup and Share Your Writing

Takeaways from WordCamp Europe 2021: Enhancing the Accessibility of a Plugin, a Use Case

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Side-by-side panels of Rian Rietveld and Morgan Kay as they give their presentation online.

At WordCamp Europe 2021, Rian Rietveld and Morgan Key presented Enhancing the Accessibility of a Plugin, a Use Case, sharing their experience of improving the accessibility of the Gravity Forms plugin.

If you’re not familiar, Gravity Forms is a popular form plugin that allows WordPress users to easily create forms, from simple forms to complex forms.

I’ve known Rian for years through the accessibility community and didn’t want to miss her talk at WordCamp Europe this year. Continue reading Takeaways from WordCamp Europe 2021: Enhancing the Accessibility of a Plugin, a Use Case

Photo of the Week: Summer Tanager

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Brilliant red bird with brownish-red wing, smaller than an American Robin, perches on a tree branch.

As you might imagine, a brilliant red bird will catch your eye whether you’re on a trail in the Michigan woods or looking at the crested Northern Cardinal at your bird feeder.

When the bird is a Summer Tanager, a bright red or orange-red bird that typically breeds further south than southeast Michigan, you can imagine the excitement of birders in our area when they learned one had been sighted this spring! Continue reading Photo of the Week: Summer Tanager

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