2. Purpose, design, and development
• The purpose of HealthViaFood.org was and still is to present overlooked
ideas to gain health and to lose weight, effortlessly, by a change in eating
habits. (My health is my hobby and my passon.)
• The design was to be easy to use (navigate), multi-lingual, and interactive
(with comments from readers), instead of writing a book. (I am a writer.)
• With no Wordpress skills in 2019, but some (dated) experience in computer
programming and SAP projects, I hired the cousin (of an acquaintance) for
the technical Wordpress details, the theme (Astra), and the installation of
plugins that I selected. No custom code is used (or very little).
• Since then, I have made mistakes, learned lessons, added more plugins,
developed version 2, and plan to develop version 3.
3. Functionality & plugins
• Only proven plugins were selected (> 10,000 installations and evaluation of
reviews) for specific functions.
• In general, the most useful have been uptimerobot.com, Broken Link
Checker, Easy Updates Manager, Health Check, WP Lucky Table of
Contents, and WP Optimize.
• More specific, useful plugins (for HealthViaFood) are WPML (WP Multi-
Lingual) for translations (deepl) and RSS Aggregator (Remote Syndication
Service) for related (selected) news.
• The most specific, useful plugin is WPRM (WP Recipe Maker) from
Bootstrapped Ventures (Hasselt) – for recipes that are easy to set up,
adjustable, including possible collections and submissions.
4. Lessons & goals
• Lesson # 1 (offline) - If nutritional advice is not asked for, it it not welcome.
(I am here to present and defend ideas, not to impose them.)
• Lesson # 2 (offline) – People tend to value only what they pay for.
• Lesson # 3 - Shorter articles are preferred.
• Lesson # 4 - An audio-visual format is preferred to the written word for
mass communication.
• Lesson # 5 - SiteGround support is excellent, but has its limits.
• Lesson # 6 - Even expert support has a point of view and limitations.
• Goals v3 - Reformat content to audio-visual format (an online course);
complete and proofread translations; add recipes; offer memberships (for
free, group, or individual health coaching services) with conferences,
forum, and easy login; and market services (studios, md’s, direct)
