Welcome to my new blog…kind of. If you visited my blog yesterday, you saw that I had planned to change things up. I originally was just going to go with a simple header, button, sidebar labels, and background change. So I did it, but then I wanted to see what other themes WordPress had to offer. I went through so many and finally settled on the one you are seeing now. I had to add another color to my header in order for the theme to really work for my graphics. I’m really satisfied with how everything came out. There are a couple of things I want to be nitpicky about, but I’m just going to go forward and see if these things end up growing on me. Also, I appreciated all your kind words yesterday. You all are amazing. And one last thing, isn’t my new button so pretty? I love it so much.
This is the last, last thing. For WordPress users, do you get conflicting follower counts? When I click on my blog on my phone is says one thing (specifically in the app), but when I look at my stats in the insights section it says another. Yesterday I discovered a completely different number when I was looking at my follow my blog by email widget. Anyone know which of these is the correct number?
Tell me what you think of the new layout! Have you ever gone through a dramatic blog change? Did you ever regret it? What do you wish you would have done differently? Let’s talk in the comments!
A Kernel of Nonsense 
This looks very nice. And yes, sometimes the followers on my PC say something different from when I look at WP through my phone or tablet. Plus suddenly today, the sidebar on the “My Site” page is all different, and you have to click on the arrows to open everything up. Strange…
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Yeah, WordPress isn’t always the best. I haven’t figured out how to include instagram on my sidebar, every time I do, it messes up all my widgets.
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It looks beautiful ❤ I’ve changed my blog like a dozen of times till finally finding the one I really liked. 😂
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Thank you so much! Back in my earlier days, I had a lot of different looks, but sometimes none of them feel just right, you know?
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I love trying out new themes and headers…and I love what you’ve done here. Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing and enjoy.
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Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
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Love the layout and colors. Very pretty and neat!
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Thank you so much!
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Oooh it’s so pretty! 🙂
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Thank you so much!
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I love the new layout! It’s so clean and organized! 🙂
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Thank you, Erica!
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Love the new look, Alicia!
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Thank you so much, Lauren!
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Love this color scheme!
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Thank you so much!
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I wish I had the graphical skills to make more changes to my blog (though I love my sloths, just want more headers). Nice job. The colors are very pleasant and the design is nice and clean.
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I like your sloths too. Thank you so much! I keep saying, canva makes me look better than I am.
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This is so beautiful, I adore the color scheme and your banner and header turned out really well! 🙂
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Thank you so much. I need to go visit your guy’s new blog right now. I saw you announce it and didn’t get a chance to check it out yet, but I followed!
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I love the new look and also congrats in doing it in such a short turnaround. It took me basically an entire month to overhaul my blog and I’m still not finished even though its many months later :’)
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Thank you! Honestly, I’m still working on a few things behind the scenes. I feel the tears! I spent a lot of time on this and am just hoping I don’t get all fickle and want to change it back.
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I love the new layout! It looks beautiful 😊
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Thank you so very much!
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The new layout is lovely! 🙂
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Thank you so much!
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I like it; it’s nice and clean looking but I think it may need one more color?
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I actually had another color, but I couldn’t quite make it work in my header. Thank you!
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Love the colors! It’s beautiful!
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Thank you, Angela!
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Your new design looks fab! I wonder if the difference in follower count might be due to WordPress followers vs email + WP followers? WordPress often tells me one number, but then I have a few email followers too, so the total is actually slightly higher. Maybe this might be the same with you?
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Thank you! I see the difference with the email followers, but I’m getting a big discrepancy between that number and the one that shows up in my follow my blog email widget. That’s the number that leaves me confused.
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Hmm that’s strange then! Maybe you could ask WP support about it? They might be able to help!
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The button is so pretty ❤
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Thank you so much!
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I love the new layout Alicia!
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Thank you so much!
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OMG gorgeous Alicia!! It looks amazing!!
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Thank you so much, Cande!
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Aaaaw this looks great Alicia. And yeah the follower count is weird. I know that on the sidebar on my front page is just wp followers and on the dashboard they count email followers as well which is like 10 more or so.
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Thank you so much! Yeah, I see the difference between those two numbers, but my follow blog through email widget is giving me a completely different one that I’m very confused about.
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That is weird 😦
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Everything looks great! Making blog changes is an act of fear and frustration. I have something else I want to put up, but I’ve been putting it off, because I swear, I always end up in tears! Great job. 🙂
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Thank you so much. I hope you have better luck in the future!
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Looking good! RE: Visitors, I definitely get some conflicting numbers sometime. Some people have pointed out the email followers, which accounts for some of it. I also have discovered that sometimes visitors unintentionally trigger every one of my images as a post to register as a separate view, which ends up spiking my page view count.
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Thank you! I wonder why that is. I’m thinking the number that is confusing me might be followers, email subscribers, and anytime anyone has ever subscribed to comments. That’s the only thing I can think of.
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I don’t pay attention to the numbers on how many people are following me because so many spam accounts are following me. Anytime I write about a book that talks about fat women, or a book that has anything with sex in it, etc, I start getting these weirdos following me.
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Eeew. Yet another reason why we need to be able to block people on here. I’ve stopped looking too closely at my spam folder. I get some weird stuff in there. Now I just empty it occasionally.
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I’ve checked into blocking people before, but WordPress only lets you block certain people from commenting. If you want to block certain people, their idea is you should just make your blog private. That seems extreme.
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Ugh.
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I love the new blog design! I think it’s awesome, and the pastel colors are really pretty. 🙂 My biggest blog design change was my recent switch to self-hosted, and I couldn’t be happier about it.
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
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Thank you so much. I love your new layout too!
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Looking beautiful! Very fresh and clean looking. I like!
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Thank you, Chrissi!
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Looks great and I find the colors and design so soothing and inviting!
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I love the new layout! I hope you’ll be happy with it. 😊
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I love the new look on your blog! I love the colors.
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Thank you so much!
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LOVE the new look, Alicia! The header and button have both turned out so pretty, and I love the colors you’ve decided to go with too! <33
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Thank you so much! I’m really pleased with the new look.
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I love your blog’s new look! You’ve got a great eye for your color schemes and graphics too, I am at awe! ❤
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