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 ›
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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 ›
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 ›
