I must say, I’m really happy to be back blogging on WordPress (now with a self-hosted setup). One of the things I set up over the long weekend was a new “Places” page that links to specific cities and locations that I’ve written about over the last 13 years.
All I did was ask AI to tell me which places I have written about the most (Toronto was the undisputed number one). Then I created a bunch of corresponding post categories and batch-edited any posts that had these locations either in the title of the post or in a tag.
Now, if you’re interested in Marrakech but not Montréal, there’s an easy way to filter. Here’s what the Places page looks like:
This is one of the things I missed the most: the ability to easily search, sort, and go back to old posts. That was surprisingly difficult on Paragraph, and it felt to me like my posts were going into a black hole, never to be found again. Reading old posts and revisiting them with new thoughts is a big part of this writing journey.
I’m also excited to add to the Places page. Each one of the covers is a photo I took, and if I didn’t have any photos of the place, it didn’t get added to the page. We have some trips planned at the end of this summer and over the winter, including a bucket-list location for our 16th annual ski and snowboard trip, so stay tuned for more photos and places.