OK, here’s the latest.
I haven’t heard back from the Wizards of WordPress in a week, and I’m fixin’ to tug on their beards again.
Any of you folks still having trouble commenting?
If you can’t reply here, please do so via email. If you don’t know my email address, just click the picture of Il Fattini at right and scroll down.
Thanks in advance, and now we return you to the blog, which is already in progress,
Anyone queuing up for the new Apple gadgets this morning?
Me neither.
I have this fine 2021 iPhone 13 Mini here, which I had to snap with the 2016 iPad Pro, since I no longer have any actual cameras in the vicinity.
The iPad is practically useless — I was pinching pennies when I bought it and went for the 32GB of storage, which is of course full to overflowing despite my ruthless purging of apps, data, pix, music, etc.
It still works, but to no particular purpose, like the U.S. House of Reprehensibles, and I don’t expect to ever buy another.
Remember, kids: You can never be too rich or too thin, or have too much storage and memory.
Speaking of things that don’t work as they should, no further intel from WordPress. WP was good enough to send me a note proposing that I upgrade to their Business plan to “unlock a set of amazing features,” among them “live chat support for on-demand help from our global team of Happiness Engineers.”
This, like a new iPad — and commenting on the blog without having to buy a postcard, slap a stamp on it, and hand it over to the U.S. Mail — is another non-starter.
A WordPress “happiness engineer” and I have had one exchange of views about the comments issue, and I am eagerly awaiting round two.
In the meantime, if you continue to have problems sounding off in this space, the WPHE’s advice is to:
• Clear your browser cache and cookies.
• Make sure Javascript is enabled.
As for me, I recommend trying a variety of browsers. I was able to comment on the DogS(h)ite using the Mac versions of Firefox and Chrome on a 2014 MacBook Pro running the Catalina OS.
Some of you have noticed that the “Leave a Reply” box looks a little different lately, and the WPHE acknowledged that WP “is constantly updating and improving its features (emphasis mine), so it’s possible that recent updates could have affected the appearance or functionality of the comment box.”
O, indeed. “In my Father’s CMS there are many updates,” as the Good Book tells us.
Now, I’m just spitballing here in the absence of evidence or expertise, but it’s possible that my insistence on using WP’s Classic Editor instead of its beshitted Block Editor — curse its name, yes — may play some role here.
Or it may be that the theme I use, the venerable Kubrick, has long since been “retired” and is no longer supported properly. Chances are it’s just gathering dust and being “updated and improved” by mice in the bottom drawer of an Army-surplus metal desk down in storage room B. There may be a Swingline stapler on the desk, right next to a box of matches.
Lotta strands in old Duder’s head, man. And they’re not all plugged into the proper sockets. More as I hear it. Meanwhile, keep those cards and letters coming, and don’t touch that dial.
A quick housekeeping question for all y’all:
Anyone having trouble commenting on the site?
I realize this may be a tough one to answer if you’re having trouble commenting on the site. But a couple of readers have mentioned issues recently and I’ve noticed a subtle alteration of the CMS that may indicate that the WordPress peoples have moved some of the furniture around and the rest of us are barking our shins on it in the dark.
Anyway, comment if you can, email if you can’t. Let me know how you comment — right here at some individual post, via Facebook, by subscribing to posts, whatevs. I’ll take my troubles to the WordPress gods in prayer.
Discuss.
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