I did a thing. I felt like we were far enough along in the process to let our original Outpost group know that we are actively working on something that we are hoping to group test with the 24T2021 game, starting in November. Go ahead & take a look at the announcement post over on GR, and offer any contributions.
Having said that, I do think that it is time to begin moving forward with setting up our final home. This site will remain open after we move over to the final home – The Secret Reading Room (or SRR) – as a place for the site admin team to work on things behind the scenes. When we open the new domain and start building, we are able to start from scratch with respect to the themes. We will also be adding the book database & Ultimate Book Blogger plugin to that site so you will all be able to see how they look. We have an idea of how we want to structure the organization based on how features have been able to be added to this site as we’ve been working through it.
If you want a preview, look at my site: All the Vintage Ladies. I am running the book database there now (I just started using it, so it is in the earliest of all possible iterations). You can see how posts looks on my Peril at End House post here. Note that terms like author name are live links, when you click on them, you will get any reviews related to books written by that author (give me a few days, and there will be more Christie posts). Also take a look on the header menu & click on the Review Index, which contains all of the reviews that have been added so far, and My Library, which is a list of all of the books I have added to my database, sorted by author.
MBD has also been using the book database much longer than I have – so check out her site as well to see how slick it is.
With respect to the site itself, we are planning on sharing the domain between MBD, me & Themis, so that there are multiple owners in case someone needs to drop out. I am also asking Mike Finn & Jennifer if you guys would like to join the admin team and help us out with site build and troubleshooting as we move forward.
There are still lots of questions to answer, so no one abandon us now! But I have really high hopes that we can build a really wonderful community here!
I loved your post over on GR.
Oh, good! I’m so excited about this, Themis! I can’t wait to play 24T2021, and see everyone’s posts and images and all of the fun and conversation.
I’m excited about the whole thing, basically. 😀 The new site, getting our reading games in shape again in due form and style … all of it!
I couldn’t resist creating a new image for our game.
I only found the announcement because I read about it here! GR gave me no notification–how can we make sure everyone gets the news?
Just proving that we need to get the hell off of GR.
I’ll send out a broadcast message.
I’m looking forward to helping to make this work.
I hope the response from The Outpost members is positive.
I’m happy to do whatever needs doing that I know how to do.
I think that this is going to make a lot of people happy.
I hope so!
I’m giddy. 😀
Mike: not to put you straight to work, but as the only one of us even willing to face off with the block editor, do you think you could create a small, basic, tutorial for everyone on how to create a post using the block editor? I’m thinking bare bones basic: create a title, text and images. (We’ll need a different one for book reviews, but we need to wait until we have those plugins installed.)
At some point a more advanced tutorial on block editor would be good too, but for starters, I just want everyone to feel they can do what they need to do to feel comfortable and be able to participate.
There’s a plan for that kind of tutorial on WP.org. I’ll take a look and see if I can populate it with some relevant examples.
Thank you! My brain keeps spinning off in different directions ‘oh we need this! – oh wait! don’t forget x, y and z’.
Yeah — mine, too. 🙂
Christine, you know I’m on-board and I thought your announcement was perfect.
It also forestalled a question I was going to post about inviting people from TheOutpost, not just Game Time@ The Outpost. 😀
Your post at GR was wonderful, and I am definitely in to help however I can.
I am so excited about this, y’all!
Thanks for spreading the news! I think this is going to be a great move. 💜