Research Links
This page will be where I keep my notes on this topic.
I was able to get the install to work with Php 7.4 by disabling the CKEditor plugin. But life it not good with the crappy native editor of Wordpress.
I have CKEditor installed and much prefer it. Upon attempting to write a new entry today I found post-new.php yielded just a blank page. Then through my mental fog came the realization that WordPress has been threatening to cut in Project Gutenberg recently. Additionally I realized that CKEditor plugin often conflicts with other plugins. So upon disabling it I saw the new interface. Ok no thanks. I googled and found the following officially supported Wordpress plugin.
I was a little surprised that Wordpress must be automatically updating my php scripts because I run on my own servers. The update process is detailed here:
The WP-Members membership plugin turns your WordPress site into a membership site. Restrict premium content, create custom registration fields, and more.
Research Links
This person is working the Wordpress model hard. The vagaries of the internet.
Yandex is a Russian based search engine with some good webmaster tools. This is where I will take notes on its usage.
Usage Links
Wordpress blogging software is so popular and ubiquitous that people have made tools dedicated towards modifying blog themes. These are some of the tools. I am noting it here for later should I ever need them.
Tool Links
This plugin lets you specify the header image for each page post. Unfortunately it does not work with my current theme "Simplicity". Apparently it is too simple.
Control What Facebook Shows When You Share Your Link
The Yoast SEO plugin is a good tool for a novice at search engine optimization to improve their websites searchability and google ranking. The Yoast SEO plugin also allows you to control what your google search result entry and facebook shared link webpage preview will look like.
Notes on the operation of FaceBook
Facebook only scrapes a page when you initially place a link in it. If you change a webpage you need to trigger a rescrape. Using Yoast SEO you can override everything for Facebook sharing.
One bad point about this plugin is that it seems to be coercing you to give up your login credentials for your google search console which is likely your gmail credentials also. I have been trying to do the manual method by retrieving the google secret code but keep getting a problem flagged when I enter the validation code.