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Ah, Cripes! More WordPress Problems

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I have a post today about “Self-Esteem Games,” and it seems the comments are disabled for this post. I have no idea how that happened, let alone what to do about it. How do I un-disable comments? Search me! I looked it up and all I got was some malarkey about installing some kind of plug-in. All I know about plug-ins is, the last and only time I tried to install one, it let me in for hours and hours of horrendous technical problems.

Trying to contact a WordPress Happiness Engineer, all I got was “email us.”

Oh! And our oven has stopped working, and the “Check Engine” light is on in Patty’s car, we don’t know why, and how I’m going to get anything done this week beats me.

Looking for somewhere to hide…

All right, now it’s fixed. They sent me an email and told me how to fix the problem, and it seems this was successful. That leaves the oven and the car, and a big fat eye doctor appointment on Tuesday that will chew up the whole day. My coping mechanism seems to have broken down today, along with a lot of other things. I am not at liberty to mention serious health problems that have suddenly cropped up for friends and family members.

Have They Fixed the Problems?

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Well, here’s hoping! Two WordPress engineers worked on this blog throughout the afternoon, and it looks like they’ve accomplished some good things.

The news links are working now.

My tags and categories have been restored.

The referrals to related posts have been restored, so now I have a reasonable hope of finding stuff.

The only thing that seems to have gone wrong is that the comments from the last two days have gotten all mixed up, with some of them just plain deleted. If new comments come in all right, I can let that pass. Send me a few comments tonight, folks, so I can see if things are working properly.

And if all those problems come back again, I shall be very much put out.

Update: WordPress Screw-Ups

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Here’s the updated list of all the things that have gone wrong with WordPress over just the past two weeks.

News links that don’t like to anything.

Reblogging function doesn’t work.

Some readers don’t get their notifications of new posts or comments.

The links to similar or related stories, at the bottom of each post–gone, removed, vanished. Makes it hard to find related stories.

The list of tags and categories on the right-hand side of the page–gone, removed, vanished. Makes it hard to find things.

If I tried to work out these problems with WordPress’ “Happiness Engineers,” I’d be at it until I was literally driven mad. Besides, the last time they fixed something, it only stayed fixed for three or four days.

People keep predicting the folks at WordPress will get their act together and stop subverting and sabotaging their users’ blogs. But I see no sign of that happening.

Trying to Make Sense of WordPress

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(Calling the shots at WordPress’ Fortress of Ineptitude…)

At least one of our regular readers is not getting notified when a new post is published here. If you follow the blog, WordPress is supposed to do that for you. Is anybody else not getting those notifications?

And of course they now notify me when I’ve posted something, just in case I’ve done it in my sleep or something.

And of course my news links within the posts still don’t link to anything anymore. WordPress fixed that once, but in just a few days it happened again.

What are they doing? It seems like the whole business has been taken over by gremlins. I can see no rhyme or reason in it. Imagine if they were in charge of manufacturing cars. On second thought, I don’t want to imagine it.

When are they going to get their act together?

Default on Student Debt–and Lose Your License

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Remember debtors’ prison–they throw you in the clink until you pay off your debt? Really stupid idea, wasn’t it? Eventually they discovered that it’s next to impossible to pay off anything while you’re in jail.

But if we really do know better nowadays, how come 22 states revoke your driver’s license, or even your professional license, as punishment for failure to pay off your student debt? (http://www.jwj.org/in-22-states-your-student-debt-could-cost-you-your-job) You could read all about it in this recently updated Jobs With Justice article, if only WordPress hadn’t killed all my news links.

Let’s see, now… You go to collidge and run up a $200,000 student debt–and when you can’t keep up with the payments, they take away your right to drive a car, or even revoke your professional license. Either way, you probably lose your livelihood and certainly lose your ability to pay down the debt. Bad enough you’ve got a master’s degree in Gender Studies or Superhero Studies and it isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. But just try to get and keep a job if you can’t drive to work. And just try paying down a debt if you haven’t got a job.

America would be better served if there were some other punishment for student debt default–suspending the defaulter’s right to vote, that would be a good start. Refusal to grant student loans in the first place to anyone “studying” completely useless subjects.Why should the taxpayers loan anyone money to get a degree in Lesbian Chicano Studies?

But it’s just plain mean to take away some poor collidge grad’s ability to eke out a living serving up slurpees at his hometown Seven-Eleven.

WordPress Foul-Up No. 109,272

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When a little kitten chases its tail, it’s cute and funny. When a 68-year-old man does it, they begin measuring him for a rubber room.

I just knew this day could not go by without WordPress coming up with yet another stupid problem. And this one’s a beauty.

They’ve got me a new follower for my blog. Me. Yeah, I’m listed as a follower of my own blog. I lead it and follow it at the same time. No wonder I’m confused. No wonder my readership is down. Who wants to read someone that egotistical?

Wait’ll these geniuses find out that the Indus Valley Script has never been deciphered. That’ll be next. Re-do all the posts in Indus Valley Script. Ain’t it fun to run a tech company?

Here’s What They’ve Done to Me Today

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WordPress has really gone to town on me today. I’m surprised there’s anything left of this blog. Here’s what they’d hit me with, just today.

News links don’t link to anything.

Reblogging feature doesn’t work.

Blog followers aren’t getting notified when new posts go up.

And other things are going on at the readers’ end to make communication more difficult.

My readership is down and my blood pressure is up. Every time one problem is solved, two more take its place.

And Congress isn’t even running this mess.

Can You Even See This?

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WordPress is really socking it to me today, and I have no way of knowing whether any of my posts can be read by anyone.

First the news links stopped working. Then the reblogging function. Jano, I reblogged your article, your page tells me it’s been reblogged, and I can’t find it anywhere here, where it ought to have shown up. And now WordPress has stopped tracking new views.

I wanted to finish writing The Temptation today so my editor can tell me whether it turned out all right. I wanted to check in with Joe Collidge.

So far, no go.

And meanwhile they’ve carted Aunt Joan off to the hospital with a fever, so please pray that that turns out all right. Amen.

Experimental Post (an Oldie)

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I’m expecting that the Press This feature–by which I provided old posts, from the Archives,  for new readers, will never be restored. So this is my first effort to provide the same service without Press This.

From the Archives: Potbelly Hill (2013)

An Archeological Enigma: Potbelly Hill

This won’t work either if most of my Archives remain in the limbo of “File Loading.”

Oh, and regular readers, you’re gonna love this:

The engineer quizzing me about my WordPress woes wanted to know… if I’d added any code! Like, if somebody put a gun to my head and said, “Awright, load some code, or I’ll blow out your brains,” that would be the end for me. Adios, muchachos.

Problem Solved, Maybe

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Now it looks like, after extensive work with the engineer, my text it readable again like a normal text, black letters on white background. Please let me know if this is what you see!

It looks to me like all your comments came out properly. I don’t know if Press Thgis is going to work now, but first things first.

Thank you all so very much for staying with me as I wrestled with this monster.