Too Clever By Half
Blogger hints, hacks, and attitude
Friday, June 20, 2025
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Blog backups get easier
- You can now use Google Takeout to back up every part of all your blogs at once. ¶
- Takeout lets you schedule backups every two months for a year. ¶
- You can still back up your theme as a single file. ¶
- The Takeout backup will download more data than you need. Extra steps can manage the size of your backup.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Questions for my readers
Should I switch to a mobile-friendly blog theme? ¶
And who blogs from their phones anyway? ¶
Do you?
Friday, May 9, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
A cautious way to change your blog
If you've been blogging for a while, you might feel both intrigued and timid about making changes. ¶
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You might hold back from trying a new blog theme for fear of subjecting your readers to an experiment, or to an extended period of switching things around. ¶
Ideally, you'd test and debug things in private, and then go live with the new design once it is ready for prime time. ¶
You can do that. I have done it twice (for another blog).
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Puzzling interface hall of shame
Friday, March 21, 2025
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