It's already halfway through June, and all our school sports are up and running. With precautions of course. I have a son in marching band, a son in football, and a daughter in volleyball. And that's just my high schoolers! My two youngest made their state soccer teams. AND we just found out our oldest may get a college scholarship for gaming and basketball at a school back east. It would be a dream come true for him if it happens, but we're still waiting!
We also had news that Steve (my hubby) would be let go at his job due to cutbacks from all the economic fun. But he has a few interviews this week, so we're hopefully he won't be jobless for long. 
Meanwhile, I started a page on Redbubble with T-shirt designs and became a Tupperware consultant. If you love Tupperware, I'm actually doing a party right now hosted by Kirsten Osborne. You can join it here. 
But don't worry, I'm also writing! Between setting up those things, getting my Pinterest site all pretty, and chasing kids, I've been writing The Grocer's Bride. I've had two readers keeping up with editing while I write and they're loving it, so that makes me happy! 
I'm hoping to have it done by the end of the week so edits can happen. I'd love to have it out by the end of next week. Let's hope no other wrenches get thrown in my way!!
So what about you? What have you been up to this summer? What books are you reading? What is your favorite movie you've seen this year? What show are you bingeing on Netflix? I'd love to know! 
Me? I'm busy collecting books from my childhood. Well, from high school Do you remember these?

​These and another series are the reason I fell in love with romance books (pun intended). They're SO good! And they had some awesome history in them, which was even cooler. They had everything. Love, conflict, having to decide between two loves. Anyway, I found some for about $3 on alibris.com, so I grabbed four of them with my royalties last month. I can't wait to reread them. 
This one is my absolute favorite book and part of the other series I'd devour. I read it I don't know how many times in high school, and when I went back to my high school to see if I could get the title and author so I could buy one, the librarian gave it to me! 

Nothing gets to me like being told something won't work, when I know there has to be a way to make it happen. It's a trait I learned from my mom and her family line, and it's one I hope I never lose.

So when I couldn't find anywhere that would teach me how to allow a Weebly or a Wix site to be synced with Pinterest and especially how to make rich pins, I was determined to learn. It took several hours to figure out Weebly, but as soon as I plugged in the code correctly, I was able to add the pins to all of my other pages within an hour. If you look through my site , that's a lot of pages... Anyway, then I tried the same thing with Wix for our arts council website and it was even harder to find. Every site I went to said that Wix doesn't support it, and I knew there *had* to be a way. So I figured it out!

All right, here we go! (If you want Weebly's instructions, I have a blog post for that as well!)

First, you want to be in your Pinterest settings and click on Claim website. It will have you upload HTML. Grab that code, and then move over to your Weebly site.
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Sign in to your account and go to your dashboard. Once there, Scroll down to Settings. 

Scroll down to where you get to tracking and analytics.

In the right hand corner, click on + New Tool and then you want to click on Custom.
You're going to paste the code from Pinterest where it says 'paste the code snippet.'
You can name it as "claim site" or whatever, but I just left mine as custom for this one.

Once you've entered it, publish your page. Then go back to Pinterest and hit Submit. Then Pinterest takes care of the rest for claiming your site! Easy peasy, right?
Now on to rich pins.
I searched through the whole site, checked all kinds of web pages that said Wix can't have rich pins, and then I poked around on the site before finding where I could enter the code.
And guess what? When I went back to do the tutorial, I realized that it's actually easier than I thought it was when I did it the first time!!
As in, take everything I just wrote for claiming your site, rinse, and repeat! Go into your dashboard, settings, tracking and analytics, then +new tool.

Here's where it changes. This time you're going to enter different code. When I got the code from Pinterest I was really confused until I experimented and put my own info into the code and boom. It worked! I wanted to jump and cry and evil laugh because I did it!
 
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
    <meta property="og:title" content="My Secret Crush Box Set 1-3" />
    <meta property="og:description" content="Three fun holiday stories of new love" /><metaproperty="og:url"content="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087BJCQYK?tag=jachar-20/> <meta property="og:site_name" content="amazon.com" />
    <meta property="article:published_time" content="2020-04-19T00:01:56+00:00" />
    <meta property="article:author" content="Jaclyn Weist" />

1. Where My Secret Crush Box Set 1-3 is, you're going to put the title of your book or article, etc into that spot. Make sure to keep the quotation marks in the code!
2. Where it says 'three fun holiday stories of new love' is you'd put a short description of your book or article (Keep the quotes!)
3. Where my amazon link is, you'd put your link (Amazon, your article, whatever - keep the quotes!). 
4. Amazon.com would become wherever you want them to link to (usually Amazon unless you have your own store on your site).
5. published_time was the date my book was published on amazon. You can put that or the day your article was published, etc.
6. And of course, the author would be you.

Okay, now your code is set! I named this set of code "rich pins" so I'd remember what it was, then chose the pages I wanted to have set as rich pins. Since this was for my arts council page, I wanted to make sure all the directories, events, and branches had rich pins for them. And you want the code to be in the header code.

Once that's done, click apply. 

Last step and it's a big one. You want to make sure those pins worked!
Go to this site here to validate your pins. You're going to put the link to one of the pages you added the rich pin to into that bar and click validate. And voila! You have rich pins for Wix!

​Questions? Feel free to ask!

Nothing gets to me like being told something won't work, when I know there has to be a way to make it happen. It's a trait I learned from my mom and her family line, and it's one I hope I never lose.

So when I couldn't find anywhere that would teach me how to allow a Weebly or a Wix site to be synced with Pinterest and especially how to make rich pins, I was determined to learn. It took several hours to figure out Weebly, but as soon as I plugged in the code correctly, I was able to add the pins to all of my other pages within an hour. If you look through my site , that's a lot of pages... Anyway, then I tried the same thing with Wix and it was even harder to find. Every site I went to said that Wix doesn't support it, and I knew there *had* to be a way. So I figured it out!

First I'll set up Weebly since that's the site my author pages are on. Then I'll do another for Wix.

All right, here we go!
First, you want to be in your Pinterest settings and click on Claim website. It will have you upload HTML. Grab that code, and then move over to your Weebly site.
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Sign in to your account and go to edit site.
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Go to your Settings tab at the top of the page and click, then go to your SEO setting on the left hand side of the screen.

Scroll down until you see the header option and enter this code: 
<metaname="p:domain_verify"content="8819539de7a198fe1d8a3d7e0bab1bdb”/>
Hit publish.
 Once you've hit publish, go back to Pinterest and click submit. Pinterest will then check to make sure everything is correct. And your site should be good to go! If there's an issue, go back and make sure you have the correct code uploaded, etc.

Now that your website is claimed, you want to set up your rich pins. These are great to have because they are YOUR pins, they look nicer, and Pinterest likes them better than other pins. And we want that! 
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Once you're on the dashboard to edit your site, click on pages, then go to the page you want the rich pin for (I did all of mine, but I'm an overachiever ...) and click on SEO settings under the Header.

We're going to scroll down in those settings to where the header option is (I don't know why the header is at the bottom, but whatever).

Now here's where I was REALLY confused, but it turns out it's actually super easy! Pinterest provides this code, but then I experimented and put my own info into the code and boom. It worked! I wanted to jump and cry and evil laugh because I did it!
 
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
    <meta property="og:title" content="My Secret Crush Box Set 1-3" />
    <meta property="og:description" content="Three fun holiday stories of new love" /><metaproperty="og:url"content="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087BJCQYK?tag=jachar-20/> <meta property="og:site_name" content="amazon.com" />
    <meta property="article:published_time" content="2020-04-19T00:01:56+00:00" />
    <meta property="article:author" content="Jaclyn Weist" />

Okay, so there's one more step, but really, it's that easy. I did it on every page since each page is a different book. Pinterest SHOULD pick up all of your site with one pin, but again I'm an overachiever AND I'm super paranoid so I wanted to make sure they all worked.

Anyway, go to this site here to validate your pins. You're going to put the link to one of the pages you added the rich pin to into that bar and click validate. And voila! You have rich pins for Weebly!

Questions?