This is a test. This is only a test. I’m using WordLand to write this post to my WordPress website. It’s a new, stripped-down writer’s tool for bloggers. Think of it as a frill-free writer’s frontend to the majesty of WordPress. The essential features (and some advanced ones, even) in a distraction-free, scribbler-friendly environment.
## An H2 subhead, my liege.
WordLand supports Markdown, I understand. It also supports direct bolding and links, of course. An overview of the features is available at the link I shared in the opening paragraph. For your convenience, here it is again: https://this.how/wordland/
WordLand doesn’t yet seem to include an affordance for ALT text. Either that, or I couldn’t find the affordance. Pretty likely that that will be corrected soon, as ALT text is a bottom-line basic necessity. (And, again, I may have simply overlooked an existing affordance.)
### An H3 subhead, your worships.
Hmm. More to come. WordLand is a creation of Dave Winer, one of the first bloggers, who also gave us RSS and lots more. Read more about Dave Winer on Wikipedia.
Okay, this was easy enough. For bloggers who mostly *write*, it’s a clean, distraction-free interface with strong basic features that lets you offload CMS duties to WordPress.
Noting that my subheads showed up as text with raw Markdown syntax also presenting as text. This was true even when I stopped writing *##* and replaced it with *h2*, for example. No doubt I’m doing something wrong, and that’s … okay.
I’ve updated this post six or seven times within the WordLand page itself, and the updates flowed seamlessly to the live site.
Update: Make that eight updates I’ve made to this post. 😉 Apparently the editor is WYSIWYG and stores the content in Markdown. I misunderstood the function of Markdown in the app (but I also didn’t carefully read every word of the support docs). Also, there’s supposedly built-in category support using a checkbox system. But I could not find the checkbox widget while using WordLand. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one—but if such an affordance does exist, it would benefit from being made more discoverable.
