If you are an active reader of my blog, or look at the timestamp of my latest blog post, you’ll recognize that I have not published a blog post in more than 14 weeks. This has different reasons, the biggest one that I became a father in September. Those of you who also care for someone will know, that this takes away a lot of your available time – and it can also be exhausting.

Am I going to continue blogging?

Absolutely! I have committed myself to #project26, but since I only managed to publish 13 posts this year and with just one month left, this might be hard to achieve. But I do have a plan – and I hope it’s going to work out. 😅

A plugin advent calendar

Just as last year, I will try to have another advent calendar in December. Last year, I focused on “web technologies”, while in previous years I had “normal topics”. Those topics, however, take a lot of time to write, since I often also write code examples. So to make it a little easier this year, I will pick up the advent calendar idea from KrautPress. Last year, they have published blog posts, each covering one plugin per blog post in their “Advent of Plugins“.

I’ve spent the last week collecting a list of plugin for my advent calendar. Every plugin is used on one of my site, or on a site I help maintain. Some blog posts will cover more than one plugin, since I also use some “add-on plugins” to some larger plugins.

How will the blog continue next year?

I still want to blog regularly. I was told, that as a parent you will have more free time, the older the child gets. Let’s see if this is going to true. But even if I try to publish 26 blog posts, I might not post here until later next year, since my blog posts often a topic that come up at my day job, and as I take a long parental leave period, I might not have anything to blog about. But I do have an idea for a new blog, which will be about a different topic. You might have guessed it already, I want to blog about things that are relevant for parents. 😊

Conclusion

So, starting next Monday, you will be able to read about the first plugin I use regularly on my sites. I will order them alphabetically. Maybe you can guess which one I will cover first. 😉