Cleaning up categories and fixing a blank editor
A short log of site maintenance on My Nerdy Life: a Decap CMS bug fix, trimming unused blog categories, and a first A/B test on post CTAs.
A few small but useful fixes to this site over the past few days.
Decap editor was showing a blank screen. Trying to write a new post under the blog collection just gave a white screen with no error message. Turned out to be related to the admin theme setup — the editor didn’t render properly under non-default themes. Fixed by adjusting the admin page and pinning the Decap version so it doesn’t regress again.
Trimmed unused categories. Removed the 3D World, Game Dev, Design, and Hearthstone categories along with their placeholder/sample posts. These were leftover from early experimentation and weren’t going anywhere, so I cleaned them out of the config, the layout, and the category list rather than let them linger.
Added a first A/B test. Set up an end-of-post call-to-action component and wired it into GrowthBook to run as an experiment — the first real A/B test on the site. Also added an nginx config change to support it.
Also poked at whether a network device inventory tool would be worth running on one of my machines, but didn’t take that further yet.