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Author: Patrick Rhone

Ikigai is a Japanese word that can be roughly translated into English as “a reason for being.”

It hits a note with me as I’ve been struggling to nail mine in recent weeks. Perhaps the prompts in this graphic could help.

My daughter’s school hosted a US Citizenship Ceremony this morning. The whole middle school were in attendance to watch 126 people become citizens of our country. A reminder that, regardless of our current events, people still want to be part of this experiment.

How I do blog posts without titles

My friend Kevin asked me via email, “Is it difficult to get rid of titles on blog posts? I so envy what you’ve done…”

Well, part of the secret to that is found in my loose website building manifesto here:

I’m not building a custom theme or messing around with some premium framework. I build using one of the WordPress default themes and making customized modifications to that using a child theme (Additional CSS, FTW!!!)

The Theme I’m using on Rhoneisms is Twenty Sixteen. Another reason for using default themes is that, it supports all of the fancy features. The feature I’ll point out here is “post type”. because, it turns out, that one of the default WordPress post types is “Status”. Also, it turns out, that this post type does not display a title. So, I simply choose that as my post type

So, the way I put this into my “personal style guide” usage is that all of my “tweet style” posts are of the type “Status” and all of the regular essay style posts with titles are of the type “Standard”.

So, no special magic here. Just using the gifts Automattic has given me.