It dawned on me, that while I do work daily with Headless WordPress, and WordPress as a whole…. outside of the main project I’m building right now and some smaller client work; none of my personal content, or even Middleshelf is headless…
Kind of a bad look if I don’t either convert or build any of my own stuff this way!
So one of my goals for 2024 was to restart my personal branding.
Since about early 2020, I got into a slump with both content creation, writing and just being out there blog wise. I dropped off the bandwagon massively and got super complacent.
I recently got the opportunity to go to WordCamp Asia in Taipei, and it was an amazing experience but it dawned on me I need to be more proactive writing and restarting my personal brand so it is high time to stomach the anxiety and just get on with it.
First step was my personal site. I took down samtoohey.xyz a while ago in favor of just having my content on Middleshelf Studio’s site – but in line with more seperating my own personal brand and opinions from my side projects and businesses, I have restarted it again. Now the time has come to put my content over onto something headless, and with a few scaffolds here and some finishing touches there, a statically generated Faust.JS site was born now running on the domain.
Problem is the site looks pretty damn spartan….
Between a main job, my side work/client work and family this will be a slow process, but apart of Project “Get Yourself Out There 2024”; something is better than nothing! But I do have plans to make the site look better over the next few weeks.
There are arguments for more basic portfolio sites, like Daring Fireball, marco.org and Sonnet but I do also have a flare for design, though it has been a hot minute since I’ve done anything outside of client work that looks more than minimalist.
So for now I have kept it to the point – I plan on pushing my projects on here with a few custom post types, as well as my current resume.
If anyone has any advice please feel free to email me hello@samtoohey.xyz and I look forward to the year of getting myself back out there.
