I am staring at a foreign page, strange, unknown, weird.
I am bewildered, confused, puzzled.
But then I am old, so that’s normal, at least
WordPress has sprung a shifty on us and redesigned the page. Oh 1:30am confusion!
I stuck my toe in the water, and looked at some of the drop-down boxes… I found a slug! Yes, it’s in Advanced settings.
Not sure if I want slugs…
Anyway this one seems to have manners, at least.
This is like trying to drive a manual (stick shift) after 20 years behind an automatic drive.
I’m sitting here with double strength coffee clicking my heels to get back to Kansas. Dorothy, it’s not working!
That was not going to be my opening gambit.
My post title was going to be “Becoming a Habit!”
Yes, making coffee at 1:30am is becoming a habit.
I have been awake since 12:30, not really a case of insomnia, because I went to bed at 9:30pm and have had four hours uninterrupted glorious sleep.
My dirty coffeepot is not a case of sloth, or being slovenly, but rather it is never out of action long enough to scour.
Oh, that coffee is was wonderful.
Need more! BRB
Boy, that coffee is strong. I had to add some boiling water to knock it back a notch. Must’ve put 5 spoons in instead of four…
Kitty is feeling more and more at home.
She wanders in, meows, and looks at the food bowls.
She is still mistrustful, if I make a sudden move in the kitchen, she is in escape mode in a flash.
With the passing of Robin Williams, I have seen reference to his many films. Many more than I was aware of. I have marked a few for dowloading off eMule.
I am still perplexed over this ‘new look’ and not sure where to go from here…
Maybe back to bed would be best.
Later.
WordPress, Robin Williams, death is change; at least coffee is eternal; in a crisis we British drink tea.
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>Alex, maybe not. I saw an article saying we may only have coffee until about 2050; I’ll be gone by then, or 99.
AV
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I think you may be safe from such a hellish existence of no coffee.
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Me too. I can’t imagine meking my century, I expect to be bowled out around 80, then I’ll figure I’ve had a good innings.
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I am confused. You are the 2nd blog in 15 minutes to complain of change. Everything looks the same to me? Spill the beans, AV? What dastardly deed am I missing?
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>Andrew, it’s the new post page… beep beep boop!
AV
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I have seen it now. Urgh.
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Ah, so now you know 🙂
AV
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Oh boy. Not only Slug, but Beep Beep Boop, and then my draft vanished. Thanks, so much (for nothing/niente) WordPress.
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>Yvonne, I menat to mention that beep beep boop, that should have warned me that something was afoot. I had a draft vanish when I tried to preview, then I had to go to dashboard/posts/all to find it. There was something else missing… Oh yes, you can’t use the page to make a post to another blog, you have to close it and open a new post page from your user tab on the top right of the blog itself.
AV
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Why in the world can’t they inform/educate us before they spring these ‘improvements’ on us? Wait, maybe it’s all part of a scheme to help delay the onset of dementia for the users? Good old WordPress. 🙂
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That’s what I was alluding to… BTW, what’s this dementia thingy? 🙂
AV
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Andrew, wait until you post a new offering, you’re going to love it. 😦
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I was all over WP yesterday, however not today. I do most of my reading from my phone. I literally only see your post here. I like it. No clutter of the rest of the site. I’m sorry if that sounds rude, didn’t mean to!
I’m sure miss kitty will stop being skitty soon. Food makes everyone a friend! 😆
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>MWPG, I have never seen a blog post on a phone, so I am not sure what you are saying.
Yes, Kitty is a bit skittish. In the evening when I am lying on the sofa, she walks right in, looks at me as though to say I’ll talk to you in a minute and heads for the cafeteria, once done there, she comes for a stroke.
AV
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On my phone, ALL I see of a post is who wrote it, the verbiage, photos or videos and the likes and comments. No sidebars, banners, awards or anything else associated with the actual website. Very simple…. Like me! 😁
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>MWPG, sounds like you miss ahlf the fun gust getting the business end.
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Hate the new way to write articles on fb. Have you noticed that it’s impossible to get a decent preview before publishing? Highly annoying!
Micky
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>Micky, I don’t ‘do’ fb, one less load of crap to worry about. But the new WP post page also fails to show a preview, that’s annoying.
AV
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haha my bad… I meant wp instead of fb. 🙂
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>Micky, okay 🙂
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I’m sorry to hear you don’t like the new dashboard but you can still use the old one, AV. If you log into your Dashboard at https://lifeisbutalabyrinth.wordpress.com/wp-admin and then go to Posts > Add New, you can create posts using the old dashboard still and this will be around for quite a while yet.
The new dashboard lets you preview your post though. If the preview button isn’t working then this is a bug. What happens when you click Preview?
I do agree that we really should make some announcement when we make changes like this.
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>Rachel, I didn’t say I didn’t like it, I was just surprised at 1:30am to be fronted with it without warning and no coffee.
When I press preview, it saves the post and doesn’t open a preview, then I have to go to dashboard/posts/all to reopen. I’ll give it another go today and see what happens.
Now that I’m used to it, I like it and wouldn’t go back to the old. Changes were made to the old so that the posting, tags, etc scrolled up. I hated that.
Long live the new!
AV
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Ok, that’s a pain. The preview does open in a pop-up window so if you’ve got a browser setting that blocks pop-ups, you won’t see the preview. Check whether this is causing the issue.
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Hi Rachel, okay on the pop-up window (why weren’t we advised?). Most people have pop-ups blocked to prevent invasive advertising, now we have to add exemptions. Poo! What url do I put in exemptions, mine, yours, ours??? Don’t like this pop-up idea, why not just a new tag as before?
Oh, and I meant to ask, what is a ‘slug’?
AV
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