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Growing pains with the website

You may have noticed that the portfolio segment of the website is currently missing. That's not by accident. When I launched the site earlier this month, I had utilized RSS.app's trial service to create RSS widgets that would display my work in a stylish fashion. I failed to realize that the trial would only last seven days. Go figure.

It's annoying, but I'll have to go through my author pages and manually import every article I've ever written. That could take months as, at my height, I was writing something like 10 articles a day. Journo Portfolio offers an import feature, but it seemingly only works for pages that are currently being updated. Since I'm not writing at these outlets anymore, the RSS feeds aren't receiving new content and thus, won't update.

Strangely, with the firewall my current router has, I can't access Valnet sites directly, so my work at TheGamer probably won't be featured on the site. I still have a link to the author page in my "About" section, but it's an annoying setback that I wasn't looking forward to. I figured this week would be all about getting my first review on the site and starting to push for more film coverage.

Anyway, please bear with me as I figure this whole process out. If anyone knows of an RSS widget application I could use, I would appreciate it.