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WordPress: ‘In the Future’

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WordPress is still telling me they’ll fix my problem SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE. This wonderfully reassuring promise has inspired me to write a song… to the tune of The Village People’s classic, In the Navy.

In the Future

you can do your freakin’ work!

In the Future

you can sit there like a jerk!

In the Future

WordPress leaves in you the lurch

In the Future!

In the Future, at some undetermined date/ In the Future, WordPress swears it will be great/ In the Future, O fanabla, I can’t wait/ In the Future!

In the Future, when they change around your blog/ In the Future, when they treat you like a dog/ In the Future, when they need someone to flog… It’s you!

Now I Can’t View My Own Posts!

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Well! Last night I could easily refer back to anything I’d ever posted here.

And today I can’t!

Ya see, WordPress decided to hit its users with some [trumpet fanfare] *changes* that nobody asked for… and it appears those didn’t turn out quite as well as expected. Who do they think they are–Congress?

I have been assured that they will try to restore normalcy sometime [another trumpet fanfare] **In The Future**! I know that’s supposed to make me feel better, but it doesn’t. The future could be, uh, like someday far away when the sun runs out of fuel .

I’m supposed to take my blood pressure in the morning. I haven’t bothered to, today. What would be the point?

Well, I guess, *for the foreseeable FUTURE*, I’ll just have to remember every cotton-pickin’ word I’ve ever written. That would be easy if I were a hedgehog or an ashtray. As a literate human being who makes his living by writing lots of stuff, not so easy.

Lord, give me strength!

‘Comments Disabled’

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A number of you wished to comment on my post, “Looking for Reasons to Kill You,” only to find “Comments Disabled.” I have re-enabled them just now.

This happens a lot, and it’s maddening. So many steps have been added to the posting procedure, it’s really easy to miss one. I could ask WordPress to make “Leave a Reply” my default setting, but I don’t trust them not to replace this problem with something worse that I can’t fix. Like making the posts tiny light-blue print on a grey background. Fap! (They did that once before, and it took hours to put it right.)

I appreciate your letting me know when the comments are disabled. Which makes it devilish hard to have a comment contest, or any kind of reader participation. For the time being, I think we’ll have to live with this.

The management regrets any inconvenience.

Hello, Anybody There?

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I don’t appear to be getting any reads for this morning’s posts, so I’ve got to ask–are you seeing them, anybody? I don’t know how WordPress works at the readers’ end. Do they notify you when I put up a new post?

Usually by this time (1 p.m.) there are at least half a dozen hits for each new post. Today it’s only one or zero.

I’m asking about this because I never know when WordPress is going to **change** something for me, without my knowledge–and whenever that happens, this blog has major problems.

So if you can see this morning’s posts, please let me know.

P.S.–Thanks to all of you who’ve notified me that everything’s normal here today.

Uh… Where’s My Search Bar?

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You wouldn’t believe what I had to go through to post this image. Don’t even ask.

I have a stats page now, which I can gain access to by using Google Chrome instead of Mozilla Firefox… only now there ain’t no search bar, so how am I going to find and plug in images to go with the post? The search bar seems to have vanished altogether. Like maybe it got dragged under the vicar’s backyard wading pool…

Lord, give me strength!

WordPress! Grrrr! %$#@#$!

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Well, they’re doing it to me again! On our other computer, the laptop, WordPress has decided not to let me post today. All I get is a blank page. Why? Because computers are @#*&$ing unreliable, they never work, they only have to hear it’s the weekend and they go on strike! So I’m typing this on the other computer, which some weeks ago decided not to let me post on Facebook anymore.

Hey, here’s a great idea! Let’s hook our minds up with computers! Then we’ll all be smart!

“Your honor, my client didn’t even know he was stabbing his whole family to death. The computer he was connected to, it had a glitch or something. Or maybe it was doing an update…”

Yesterday the bloody thing was fine. Now it’s not. I hate computers.

Blog Block?

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Is this site malfunctioning today? Anything I ought to know about?

See, the computer does these things, or WordPress does them, without my knowledge, and sometimes it messes things up but good. Viewership today is so extraordinarily low, I now wonder if somehow access to this blog has been cut off. Got off to a good start in the morning, too–and by noon went belly-up.

Of course, if it is blocked, then you won’t be able to tell me, will you?

*Sigh*

A Couple of Computer Snafus

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You may have noticed that some of your comments have mysteriously disappeared this morning. I started typing a reply to one of them and several of them vanished, just like that. I have no idea why. Computer stuff. If one of those vanished comments was one of yours, I can only invite you to post it again. I do want to hear from you.

Also, WordPress turned off the comments for my “Unexpected Good News” post. I have re-enabled the comments, so you can make them now. I’m still dazzled by the good news from the hospital, that Aunt Joan’s condition has stabilized and she can go back to the nursing home and rest. God does hear our prayers!

About Those ‘Disabled’ Comments

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From time to time you will wish to comment on a post, only to be told “Comments are disabled” or “comments are off.”

This is because WordPress automatically disables comments without my asking for it, and I must take an extra step if I want a post opened for comments. That would be all of them. But occasionally I’ll forget to take that step, and that’s when WordPress swings into action, disabling the comments in true mindless, pointless, idle Artificial Intelligence fashion.

Eventually I’ll find out about it, one way or another, and correct it.

I’m afraid to ask the WordPress Happiness Engineers to step in and remedy this, lest they replace it with a worse problem that I can’t so easily correct. You know I’ve had my share of those lately.

And so, when you want to comment but you can’t, because they’ve shut down the comments, either let me know about it by commenting on another post, or just patiently wait for me to discover the error and fix it.

If a human employee ever worked like a computer, he’d be fired. And maybe get a damn good thrashing to go with it.

Grrrrr!

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If you wanted to reply to my Newswithviews piece today, and couldn’t because it said “Comments off,” it’s because I forgot to do the extra step that stupid WordPress has imposed on me if I want to enable comments. Otherwise stupid WordPress automatically disables them.

I had this blog for years without any problems at all, and now there’s a new one every day or two.

Hey, everybody! Let’s all hook our brains up to some kind of super-computer so we can all be as smart as WordPress!

Eeeeyahhh! I just forgot again! I’ll fix it right away.