This is actually — and how we got to this time of year so FAST — Christmas week. So, while I’m not going crazy with decorating, it’s getting busy and will stay busy for the rest of the week and… Read More ›
WordPress
GETTING PAGES IN ORDER
I write most of the posts for this site, but Rich writes a lot (and has taken over when I’ve been too sick to do it!). Garry writes, sometimes Tom writes, and I hope one of these days, Ellin will… Read More ›
THE PROBLEM WITH BLOGGING
As a group, we spend a lot of time pumping ourselves up about the how great blogging is and what we can (should) do to keep enjoying it. There are a lot of great things about blogging or none of… Read More ›
WHEN IS IT TIME TO QUIT?
There has been a lot of chatter about how to rev yourself up to keep on blogging. This is a perfectly reasonable point of view for those who haven’t been blogging for a long time. Some of us have been… Read More ›
WORDPRESS AND THE PANDEMIC ON THE DAY THE TITANIC SANK
Blogging Insights — WordPress Pandemic Performance I can truly say that the Internet was a lifesaver during the pandemic — and still is — but WordPress has had little to do with that. If anything, their persistent refusal to listen… Read More ›
FIXING WHAT IS NOT BROKEN
Change For Change Sake, by Rich Paschall You may have noticed that the websites you use regularly change their format from time to time. Just when you got used to your favorite credit card site, they changed everything around. It… Read More ›
OPEN LIVE WRITER WHILE HANGING ON TO YOUR SANITY
I’m going to pass along this comment from Tish Farrell. First, however, a brief introduction on how to actually get “Open Live Writer.” INTRODUCTION: GETTING “OPEN LIVE WRITER” NOTE: While this does not work on the Mac, I understand with… Read More ›
IT’S NOT A BLOCK EDITOR – PART II
HUH? For reasons that are way beyond my knowledge, I can’t GET the block editor to work at all on my Mac. It simply will not come up. I have to fight to avoid it on my PC, but I… Read More ›
WHAT GREAT NEW STUFF DO WE GET FROM THE BLOCK EDITOR?
NOTE: I found a way to twitch the headers and crawl back to the “old” version. It is awkward, but at least it exists. So now I have a separate link for “posts” that has the option to use the… Read More ›
PICTURES IN THE BLOCK EDITOR
Yesterday Garry slipped into the block editor and wrote a whole piece. He didn’t make any special effort. He just wrote it. How humiliating for me! Of course, he doesn’t deal with the finer points — like design, editing, proofreading,… Read More ›
ONGOING WORDPRESS CONVERSATIONS AND A THANK YOU
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 ›
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 ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 