@ronguest this post is what I needed. Chris Aldrich or Dave Shanske recommended Ultimate Category excluder. I also need to look at my subscriber plug

@ronguest this post is what I needed. Chris Aldrich or Dave Shanske recommended Ultimate Category excluder.

I also need to look at my subscriber plug in. Have a people who get a weekly digest. I don't have time to Newsletter, but my posts go out. Need to make sure I can exclude post types as well.

Using bookmarks to quickly compose posts that then go out in weekly digest. Could be reason to stick with WordPress.

I am not so sure about the header and footer plug-ins. Thinks its best to use a child theme and edit your header and footer. Though clearly I don't as you see no footer. Still at some point you will go in and change something that a theme update erases. Better to use best practices but just doing stuff is the best practice of all. I need to finally install a child theme.

For inline footnotes I prefer https://hypothes.is. Just note everything you annotate is automatically assigned a public domain license. They have private group features I use when teaching.

I haven't used: WebSub/PubSubHubbub yet. Should probably do so.

Thank you for writing such a great guide. I am going to spend this weekend setting up a WordPress setting a lot of this up.

Going to add the menu gist Chris shared as well.