Blogger’s life: November + Dezember 2024
I'm starting the year with a Blogger's life post 🤗 Welcome to 2025, where everything can be new - or the tried and tested continues to run its course.
NOVEMBER

What has happened
Plugins for the creation of maps | For the first Madeira post , I have used the plugin WP Go Maps (formerly WP Google Maps) . Without Premium, however, I can only create one (1) map (LOL!?). Since I have started to recap the Japan trip in 2023 for the blog and would like to include a map again, this is: impractical. Since I don't want to buy the premium version because I don't think it's worth it (for me and my blog), I've installed and tried the plugin MapPress Google Maps and Leaflet Maps as an alternative. I'm still not entirely sure whether I'll use it in the long term.
Online meets offline-comment, darning edition | A comment that connected my online life with my offline life in a beautiful way accompanied me throughout November and December. When I read the comment by Cinzia under the post Darning socks fever , I was totally blown away. She offered to gift me a pair of self-knitted socks because she thought it would be nice if I darned the sock once it will become necessary. I felt and still feel so appreciated and was totally euphoric about the comment and the gesture behind it. I then got in touch with her and we messaged each other for a while - including about a pair of socks for me. I have now received the result of this exchange 🧦
What was posted
- Blogger’s life: September + Oktober 2024
- just one picture: Laundry on the line
- maipenquynh goes Instagram - An experiment, round 1
- maipenquynh goes Instagram - An experiment, round 2
- Internet findings (4)
- just one picture: The clapping poppy
- The clapping poppy – 1 picture and 1000 words
- Celebrating libraries
DECEMBER

What has happened
Plugin for comment replies | Quite spontaneously, I've working on how I can make it easier for commenters to track replies to their own comments. I know all too well that I want to know what the blogger has replied to my comment. Some blogs have a function that informs me of a new comment by email and I am very grateful for this. And I wanted to offer this service on my blog too. In the end, I ended up using the plugin Comment Reply Email Notification . It seems to work so far and I'm happy with it.
The only thing I haven't been able to solve yet is the fact that the automated email is very likely to end up in the spam folder. I tried the Brevo plugin, but that was not successful.
DeepL and the english translation of my posts | While I was translating Internet findings (5) with DeepL, I had to laugh at myself for a moment. One of the internet findings is about the energy consumption of Generative AI and I associate DeepL with Generative AI. I don't know whether this is true in detail, but I found the situation somewhat ironic. This has rekindled my thoughts about whether I should stop translating my blog posts from German to English. I translate my posts by pasting the whole text into DeepL, then I revise it myself to make my posts at least somewhat being me. But the translation step makes blogging more exhausting. It is de facto a separate and therefore additional step. A completely automated translation (100 % copy paste or plugin that is embedded on the blog and translates directly on the blog) is out of the question for me right now because it doesn't suit me. I'd rather not offer an English version at all. The thought of English-speaking friends no longer being able to read the blog hurts (I don't even know if and how many of them do read my blog, but I didn't want that hurdle). But I also realise that I would be relieved to know that the translation step wouldn't be there anymore. Phew.
What was posted
- just one picture: Wiesbaden Hbf
- How many types of Plätzchen shall it be?
- Internet findings (5)
- White-and-red striped long sleeve and shades of white | study logbook darning
- just one picture: Little branch in light and shade
- The white polka dot shirt and the dot no one wanted | study logbook darning
- Tschüssikowski 2024 and Hallu 2025!