At some point last year, WordPress removed the ability have lists of links in the side bar (at least with the blog design I’m using – I don’t know if it’s possible with a different template, and tbh can’t be bothered to faff around finding out). It used to be possible to add a list widget and set it to a category of links already saved in the back end. I can see that lists can be added but, as far as I can tell, you have to add each thing individually rather using a dropdown to apply a group of links in one go. So, if I have to add stuff individually, I think it’s better to do it in a post (so it can’t disappear in its entirety again) and then see if I can just add a link to this post of links in the side bar.

I added the main links to my writing elsewhere to the About page at the end of 2024 – those links should take you to all of my writing on the named sites. However, I also want individual links to pieces, mainly because I find it easier to find stuff when I’ve saved a direct link. I’m going to use some of the same categories I previously had in the side bar to divide things up – interviews, festival reports, reviews – but instead of grouping the reviews by the year they were written, I’m going to divide them into some sub-categories where there are multiple pieces that could be grouped together (e.g. reviews of documentaries, Spanish films, films relating to ‘el otro cine español’). Some may appear in more than one sub-category.

I’m also going to link to pieces written either here or on the old blog where I’ve focussed on a single film (excluding the Carlos Saura Challenge because that’s a series of linked posts) – they’re not really ‘reviews’ per se (they tend to be more expansive, and sometimes relate to films that I’ve reviewed but had more to say than would be appropriate in review format, but sometimes it’s just something I wrote after watching). I’ll put blog posts in with the reviews but mark them with *.

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