# Introducing Places – Brandon Donnelly

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2026-08-05

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I must say, I’m really happy to be back blogging on WordPress (now with a self-hosted setup). One of the things I set up over the long weekend was a new “Places” page that links to specific cities and locations that I’ve written about over the last 13 years.

All I did was ask AI to tell me which places I have written about the most (Toronto was the undisputed number one). Then I created a bunch of corresponding post categories and batch-edited any posts that had these locations either in the title of the post or in a tag.

Now, if you’re interested in Marrakech but not Montréal, there’s an easy way to filter. [Here’s what the Places](https://brandondonnelly.com/places/) page looks like:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5f2de696a112861572066a09d2dd4f7addf2b33ef86e5289c1f717013a6ac511.png)

This is one of the things I missed the most: the ability to easily search, sort, and [go back to old posts](https://brandondonnelly.com/archive/). That was surprisingly difficult on Paragraph, and it felt to me like my posts were going into a black hole, never to be found again. Reading old posts and revisiting them with new thoughts is a big part of this writing journey.

I’m also excited to add to the Places page. Each one of the covers is a photo I took, and if I didn’t have any photos of the place, it didn’t get added to the page. We have some trips planned at the end of this summer and over the winter, including a bucket-list location for our [16th annual ski and snowboard trip](https://brandondonnelly.com/15th-annual/), so stay tuned for more photos and places.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/introducing-places-brandon-donnelly)*