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In praise of Ollie
This post about transitioning to the WordPress Ollie block theme is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. We’ve invested a lot of time in BajanThings. We are often praised for how professional the BajanThings website looks. And, we are often…
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Barbados “land of the flying fish” luggage stickers of the 1960s
In the 1960s and 1970s Barbados flying fish luggage stickers used to be given away at tourist entry and exit ports together with other welcome pack items such as tourism styled maps. During the 1950s and 1960s tourist literature often referred to Barbados as: “the land of the flying fish” which is why luggage stickers…
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Tent Bay, St. Joseph, Barbados
As part of the 2024 new year update and spring clean we have updated the BajanThings homepage. The new BajanThings homepage features a hero image of a fishing boat at Tent Bay, St. Joseph. Going forward we aim to change the hero image on the homepage regularly – and will add a homepage hero images…
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Building the BajanThings website
This is about how we built the BajanThings website. This section is a bit techie so feel free to skip straight to the BajanThings Postings. The BajanThings website uses the self-hosted version of WordPress: a free and open-source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS). According to W3Tech, WordPress is used by more than…
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Bajan history. Interesting Bajan people. Hiking in Barbados and Overseas. International Travel…
Category: Website
General details about how the BajanThings website is built can be found in this category: Website.
Details on the technology of how BajanThings is built and some of the plugins we use to optimise the website can be found in the category: Website Technology. (The Website Technology category is hidden in the posts listing as it is aimed at WordPress hobby website administrators like ourselves.)