I think WordPress’s engineers come in two grades: really good and really awful. I have gotten a lot of the awful kind, but once in a while, I get a good one. This one has been really good and helpful…. Read More ›
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WHY COMPANIES “GO BAD”
While our planet is going south, the west is burning down, and COVID-19 is killing tens of thousands of people, a lot of corporations are in a state of self-demolition. WordPress is an obvious example, but by no means the… Read More ›
BLOCK EDITOR OR WHAT?
I started blogging on WordPress in 2012 and quickly started to pay to customize my site. I have been paying for almost the entire time I’ve been blogging. Me and my friends have written 11,000 posts over the years and… Read More ›
A NEW EDITOR AND A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT US AND OUR TECHNOLOGY
Fandango’s Provocative Question #83: Who’s controlling what? One of the big issues with WordPress’s decision to create a kind of block format that is very unappealing to most of us who aren’t here to make money but joined to show… Read More ›
BAD WEEK, GOOD WEEK, BAD APPLICATION – Marilyn Armstrong
It was a bad week in a lot of ways. Non-deliveries, late deliveries, missing parts, and a lot of increasingly aggravating conversations with Amazon. I spent more time on the telephone with Amazon’s customer service than I have writing posts… Read More ›
CHANGING FORMATS ON WORDPRESS – Marilyn Armstrong
In an attempt to somehow get the reblog button to show up in the scroll, I switched templates four times in about two hours today. Apparently, REBLOG doesn’t work while scrolling on any template and what is more, a lot… Read More ›
A LITTLE SOMETHING WITH WORDPRESS – Marilyn Armstrong
I write comments, but when I go back and look, they are gone. Likes appear, then vanish. If I don’t seem to be responding, it isn’t that I’m not. It’s that my comments are vanishing. If I discover one missing,… Read More ›
HACKED AND HATING IT – Marilyn Armstrong
We Did It! — Maybe? RDP Monday: PRINCE I’m sorry. Didn’t use the “word of the day” because this needed to go out to everyone I could send it to. No matter how little you pay attention to what’s going on in… Read More ›
IT’S THE LITTLE STUFF THAT GETS ME – Marilyn Armstrong
EVEN WORDPRESS CAN’T BE THAT BAD, CAN THEY? I definitely have a few bones to pick and I’m going to start picking right now. You see, I have these questions. Important questions. And there are, as far as I can… Read More ›
STATS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2019 – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Stats This is a good time of year to look at statistics. It’s just past the middle of the year and in theory, it should give you a reasonably good idea what the year will look like…. Read More ›
BLOGGING – IT’S A NEW YET SOMEHOW OLD WORLD – Marilyn Armstrong
I’M NEW. WHAT SHOULD I DO? It’s interesting, looking at an earlier post and realizing how many “givens” have changed since you wrote it. It was just a few years ago. But oh my, how times have changed. Maybe I’m… Read More ›
NO SPELLCHECKER – Marilyn Armstrong
There will be no spellchecker. I asked and they answered. This was WordPress’s response: A. Jay (Automattic) Jun 22, 07:25 UTC Hi there, Thank you for contacting us. The spellchecker was a part of the publication process. I don’t like Grammarly… Read More ›