…and this means the look may change and features may disappear to reappear later. ‘Theme’ governs arrangement and organization, ‘plug-ins’ may not be compatible, and have to be added piece at a time, so without notice, you may see some disruptions, you may find something you’re used to temporarily ‘not there’ or ‘not where you expect it’…but data gets conserved, so we should be able to put the pieces back together.
I’ll be doing this, Jane will be doing this. We’re still needing the Ctrl-Shift-r salute to see the latest. It’s a pain, but we’re working through it.
I was finally able to log via the wordpress site. trying to log in via the login button did not work and gave me a wierd html text version which did not appear to be secure.???? Confused, but ok as I tried the ‘back door’.
I had pressed the POSTS link and got the html page. weird.
Well, let’s see how this works…..it’s not the Atahualpa theme, but maybe it’ll work….I’ll let you know.
okay, it didn’t ask me to log in again and it appears to have taken my reply…..so, the template might be the problem. I’m using Atahualpa as well on my site, but I’m not using the Post feature any longer (was getting too many people signing in who weren’t associated with our club).
That’s common to all WordPress—a lot of party-crashers with the Nigerian Puppy Scam and the Dear, you have inherited millions scam from the banker in Dubai. That’s why I ask people who want to join to e-mail me: hand-adding new members is far less time-consuming than hand-tossing the Dubai bankers.
Still, it’s a PITA, but I can log in and post.
From my bookmark I initially get the old Atahualpa skin. CSR gives me a generic skin. It says there are 8 replies. If I click on “8 Replies” as usual, I get an Atahualpa skin, but the replies are missing. If I do a CSR there, then I’m here to fill in my reply with a generic skin.
Logging in via the Kindle worked, and a good thing as I can’t CSR from here.
Wow! The old view came up in Newsfox and wouldn’t let me log in. When I opened the page in a new tab all by itself and pressed CTRL+SHIFT+R, all over sudden, EVERYTHING is different!
This whole business is a PITA for you and Jane. You have better things to do than to be playing games with WordPress. I get so put out with WordPress sometimes.
Anyway, it let me log in, and post, as you see. I hope you get this fixed soon and easily. Sheesh!
It’s still being a bit erratic as far as logging in or out goes, and that influences the number of replies I see, as well as the replies themselves, and what replies are visible in the left upper corner.
Yesterday on my laptop it looked as if it took two comments from me on the previous post, but today I can see neither, even when I’m logged in, and even though it’s showing a few newer replies once I’ve logged in. They never showed on my phone, which isn’t even showing this whole new post.
A new theme skin might be a good idea, if that is doable without causing too much work.
On a different topic, the storm has blown itself out, the sun is shining, and there are snowdrops and winter aconites blooming in my garden. Hoping for spring!
It’s really no better than it was. This is going to take some time to fix. Bear with us: I’m in the middle of a critical sequence in the current book…
[grit teeth] Aren’t computers wonderful? [/grit teeth]
OOoh, Ari’s here!
@PJ, If I may demur? My “career”, professional and otherwise, with computers goes back over a half century. What we’re seeing isn’t a flaw in computers, given we should never expect “do what I want you to do”.* The flaw is in building systems we expect to work properly and reliably that are complex, really at the limits of what WE can manage, and often times beyond. We do not (even know how to) design systems with built-in “robustness”, not to mention observing Azimov’s Three Laws of Robotics! We are FAR beyond the regions wisdom would advise.
* Humans don’t even do that!
I was actually quoting a friend (who’s also well aware of what computers do, having run production of the CD version of a legal database fro some years).
(FWIW, I met my first computer in 1968; some of my classmates in high school did it even earlier, in the mid-60s. This was in an area that then, and now, has some extremely high-end computers. I got some amusement in 2012, explaining keypunches to a co-worker.)
One would much rather have nand’ CJ working on the new book than twiddling with a recalcitrant WP install.
Very definitely. The book should come first.
I think it may be more than the skin/theme. I just came back for a look-see. The front page said there were 8 replies. After a CSR it said: 13 thoughts on “Look for changes: we now suspect the ‘theme’ may need to change…”. There are 16. But when I tried to login it said Cookies must be enabled. I checked–they are, still. After getting logging in to work I apparently was still not logged in, but another CSR seems to have fixed that.
I like the fish! And CSR did work to log me in.