Imagine trying to run a blog when you can’t see what your readers have been reading! That’s where WordPress has stuck me today.
Oh, they say it’s not their fault, it’s a conflict (?) created by “the theme designers,” whoever the blazes they are. So what I’ve got to do, they tell me, is first reach out to WordPress, then reach out to the theme designers in another company, another world, and then reach back out to WordPress and they’ll “guide” me through a labyrinth of widgets and wodgets and Kris Kringle’s grandmother’s cuneiform primer…
Ye gods! I want them to fix it. I’m not into hi-tech DIY! I don’t do my own dental surgery, either. Bad enough the month of November saw me lose 30 to 50 percent of my viewership for no detectable reason. Now I don’t know what my remaining viewers have been viewing!
I’ve been calling this The Age of Nothing Works. I see no reason to stop calling it that.
Maybe later I can get Jill, my webmaster at Chalcedon, to solve this problem for me. She wasn’t in when I called an hour ago. I am not going to fatz around on my own and probably make things worse.
If it’s not too trivial to ask, please pray for me today. This is my work, and I want to do it.
Update: Jill has fixed the problem–hooray! I will say no more about it.
I pray for you always. The devil must know you’ve been doing important work if he’s trying so hard to stop you.
Now the “View All” for readers’ countries doesn’t work, either.
I just spoke with my webmaster, who says WP is shucking and jiving, it’s 100% their fault, and it may be another week before she can work on it.
Except for yesterday, November has been a disaster for this blog. If it was a small business, it would’ve gone out of business.
Thank you for your prayers, Phoebe.
WordPress doesn’t impress me, but where that is concerned, there are a lot of tech providers that have become surprisingly blasé about serving the needs of their customers.
Like, who needs us?
Fa shuh! Like who needs me? I just eat and consume oxygen.
The WEF strongly agrees with that statement.
Until they can’t figure out a wide-area communications failure and need the services of someone that actually knows how this stuff works. Then I’d be invaluable, for at least the 10 minutes it would take to get things working. 🙂
Sometimes I get to thinking, “Does civilization still need writers, storytellers, etc.?” They’re acting like they don’t.
Civilization definitely needs those things, but we are in a time when the concept of civilization has fallen by the wayside.
Does civilization need civilization?
Desperately.