OK, I finally heard back from the Wizards about the comments issue. They advise thusly:
Please ask your readers to check if third-party cookies are enabled. If not, enable them. Here are the steps you need to follow: In the Safari app on your Mac, navigate to Safari → Preferences → Advanced, then unselect “Block all cookies.” Here is our guide to check and disable/enable third-party cookies.
I’ve asked whether this is a new thing, since this is the first time the comments issue has been so widespread. More as I hear it.
So, yeah. If anyone wants to give that a go, have at it with my compliments. In the meantime, if you have fresh intel, new questions, or just want to vent, you can reach me at maddogmedia (at) the Fabulous GeeMail (dot) com.
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That’s useless info. They don’t even have the Safari navigation right for getting to the Advanced option they want changed. And by the way, when I did find the option they want changed, it is already set the way they recommend,
Also, no way would I change ANYTHING based on their needs. These options are for ALL websites.
Posted from Firefox cause Safari still doesn’t enable comments.
Another Safari user says likewise. We continue to await Wisdom.
My version of Safari is so bloody old (14.1.2) I didn’t even bother to check whether the navigation was correct.
Wisdom is on lunch break.
Oh, and looks like this solar cycle is gonna be a doozey.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
Fun fun fun, hey? Not quite an “Is the president a cabbage?” level of distress, but still, shit, etc.
I’m simultaneously enjoying yet another round of “your Apple ID has been locked” for reasons known only to the ghost of Steve Jobs, so shit some more. Shit, shit, shit.
And now, the solar cycle. Good thing I had Herself pick up a big box of Reynolds Wrap the other day. I’ma need a new sombrero.
It’s fascinating to note that the Flux values are well above the predicted values.
Am I gonna need a bigger Flux Capacitor? I don’t have time for this. Oh, wait … actually, I do.
Tech-support 101: Tell them to try something that you know isn’t the right answer, but will keep them quiet for 10 or 15 minutes, and hope they get frustrated and don’t ask a second time.
randomly picked three other WordPress sites all allowed me to comment, But can’t do it here, So it kind of sorta maybe almost possibly has to have something to do with the template.
(Posting this via the WordPress app and not on the intertubes)
I’m thinking you may be right about the template/theme. I’ve got all those other WP blogs scattered around the Multiverse. Lemme scare one up that uses another theme, see if The People can Speak on that one.
Gonna make Gator’s chocolate chip cookies from the Yellowstone/Dutton Ranch cookbook. Wasn’t a fan of the show but sat through it because my wife was watching it virtually with some college friends, And I need all of the “Good boy, I think I’ll keep him” credits I can possibly accrue
Trying to comment…
Has anybody ever made cookies on a barbecue? It’s so delightfully nice up here in this neck of the dry and parched woods, that I’d rather not fire up the oven and add heat to the house.
My mention of Flux was actually in comment to Khal’s data about solar cycle activity. But I believe he may be on to something and the communication issues with wordPRESS, Safari and POG. Have you considered wrapping your home in aluminum foil? It seems there was a resident in that area that did that once. I think there was a documentary on it. I’ll have to give Saul a call and see if he remembers.
FYI: My postings are via old Windows and Firefox. I do not log in to wordpress before posting. I simply add my nom de keyboard and email address after typing my gibberish and then press the “Comment” url. All seems to be ok on my end.