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 ›
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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 ›
WORDPRESS AND REGENERATION – OH NO! – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Thursday – REGENERATE They’ve done it again. I don’t believe it. I don’t want to believe it. For those of you who actually use the various settings for your blog? WordPress has, without any notification to users, changed the way… Read More ›
SPELL CHECKING AND WORDPRESS – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Semantics It’s just a matter of semantics. Since they got back to me from WordPress to tell me they had fixed the “Settings” function in the Reader “Manage” area, I said, “Thank you very much.” After all,… Read More ›
IT NEVER ENDS – Marilyn Armstrong
Bird pictures are included for sanity reasons. We need some. Birds are good for that. Yesterday, after spending my entire day trying to make a breakthrough on WordPress — and feeling that maybe I had made a tiny dent —… Read More ›
ANYWAY ANYWAY ANYWAY – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Anyway I’m sending this to everyone because I think maybe I stayed with WordPress long enough to get them to start fixing the problems that have been bugging everyone. Please forgive the spacing issues. It another one… Read More ›
AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF BLOGGING … Marilyn Armstrong
WordPress has a lot of issues, most of which they have never fixed and will never fix. Some months ago, my graphics gallery stopped working if any of the pictures included a caption. Sometimes, the gallery just doesn’t work at… Read More ›
USING THE NEW GUTENBERG EDITOR – REBLOG – Janice Wald8
How to Easily Use the New WordPress Gutenberg Editor DECEMBER 16, 2018 BY JANICE WALD8 COMMENTS Big thank you to Martha Kennedy for spreading this around. These days, I don’t think I need it, but in case I change my mind, it’s… Read More ›
SOME NOT-SO-BAD NEWS, THE LOCAL EDITION – Marilyn Armstrong
Sometimes complaining helps. All the people who complained that they can’t use the new format have been offered the option of retaining (forever, apparently) the “classic format.” I was up at the Forum and there were tens of thousands of… Read More ›
IMPOSE, THEN UNIMPOSE. MEANWHILE, GREED IS GOOD – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Impose WordPress was trying to impose Gutenberg on this site. Aside from it being full of bugs (which they are trying to fix, but they should have fixed them before releasing the application!), it’s an excessively complicated… Read More ›
AN AWFUL TERRIBLE HORRIBLE DAY AT WORDPRESS – Marilyn Armstrong
I went to take a look at the brand spanking new format for WordPress. WARNING: If you do that, you will NOT be able to go back to your old format. I think what they have done is eliminate all… Read More ›
FACEBOOK AND WORDPRESS – A NOTIFICATION YOU SHOULD READ
FROM WORDPRESS: You have probably gotten the same message via email, but in case you missed it or deleted it without reading it, you might want to read it. Many of us use Facebook for publicizing our blogs. This will… Read More ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 