I recently looked into creating an author page on Goodreads. Many authors whom I like have their own. Readers can ask questions about writing and specific books on there, which is cool. It’s basically a social media platform for writers and readers to connect.

One of the requirements to get an author page on Goodreads is to have a website with a contact form. So I set up a contact form on this website.

It was a bit annoying to set up the mail that sends the message over to me, but I think I figured it out in the end. Everything else was easy to do with a plugin called Contact Form 7.

This site runs with WordPress which is a content management system for blogs like mine. If you want to have your own site, I’d recommend checking it out. It’s easy to use and offers so-called plug-ins that you can add to your site easily.

Yesterday, I added a search function to my archives page with a plug-in called “Search in Place”. It can be used to search my website easily and I think it’ll help with accessibility of my content – especially in the future, when there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of posts on this site.

The search bar can be placed on any page or post and it looks like this:

If you run a blog (or think about running one) check out the plug-in, you can find it here: WordPress Search in Place