Rands Fall Housecleaning

Riffing on the work started with Ask Rands, I’ve been spending the days before the holiday seasons polishing existing features while also building some new ones for the blog. Briefs If you’ve been watching the RSS feed for the past week, you’ve seen an increase in the number of posts. During the last major redesign of the site, Alex and I created a post type called Excerpts — the idea was a new post type for links and small bits of content. I posted many of these, but then stopped… I don’t know why. Essay-length pieces seemed to be more my jam? With my robot-friends, I’ve built a new post type called Briefs, which include photos, text, songs, and links. Yes, I know… hello 2005… but I wanted a path to post more frequently on smaller topics, so now we have Briefs. Tags Building Briefs revealed another feature that was popular, I don’t know, two decades ago? Tags. Yeah, Web 2.0. In my head at redesign time, WordPress Categories were tags, but over the years Categories became more defined…

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