My Computer Misteps
I thought it might be helpful for some other seniors out there who can remember the days before the transistor radio if I went over some of the mistakes I have made lately. It might save you from making them, too. I won’t assume anyone under fifty needs to know this. First of all I figured out why some of my pictures disappear from my blog occasionally in a random manner. It happens when I put them in a different area in my photobucket software. If I try to be neat and tidy up the place by sticking a Virginia Beach photo in the VB file after I am done with it a connection is blown to the blog somewhere. The picture disappears.
Two. Some comments in the comment file were reproducing like rabbits. I assume some sort of spam got past the guard on duty. I kept deleting some of the duplicate copies. They kept returning. So finally I deleting everything because I didn’t know where it was coming from. I dropped an atomic bomb on my comment section. Nothing has stirred since. Perhaps the spam was finally zapped. So please don’t take offense if you see that your comment is gone. It will remain in my heart forever.
I have found two really good templates for my wp.com and wp.org blogs. I like them a lot because they don’t require any work under the hood. And they look nice. But most importantly in my mind is the fact that my pictures fit in them. You may have noticed I like big pictures. They are around 600 pixels across. I want to actually be able to see details. That’s why I got the good camera. I hope it is the same on your end. I try to keep the posts down to four per page so they can load in an orderly fashion. Let me know how it’s going and I will make adjustments.
Thanks to Sadish Bala for creating a wonderful template. For a beginner it is a joy. After going through so many different models I have learned to appreciate a really good one. For example, at the bottom of the page it says older posts and newer posts. That makes it very clear which direction I am going as I work on putting pictures back in the posts. No other template I tried had that feature. Most said previous which means what? Some had nothing at the bottom of the page. I still haven’t figured that out. I highly recommend this considerate person.
And finally I have been exporting the wp.com blog content after every new post and sending it to the wp.org blog content. It seems to work out well. I have two different templates with identical posts inside. The wp.org template is going in one direction because it can. And the wp.com template, thanks to Sadish, is doing fairly well and provides a bit of security within the confines of the wp community. For someone just starting out that is important. I would hate to lose all this work because I did something dumb. And I do something dumb at least once per day.
There is something about dropping a new template on my posts that is very enjoyable. The moment arrives when you see your baby in a new dress. Will she look better than she ever has before? These are the questions that older men think about after their wives have gone to bed. It will be difficult to resist the temptation to do it again. But I believe Sadish has made us an offer we cannot refuse.
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