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Why Does WordPress Always Break Things That Work When Updating?

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Why is it that EVERY time that there is an upgraded version of WordPress they SCREW THINGS UP?

On one of the previous upgrades they took away my Post Preview and now it takes extra clicks to look at a post while in draft mode. Unless you do what I did (which you have to fix with every new version) or get the plugin (which works, but not as well).

The last update I did to v 2.3.1 wasn’t quite as drastic a change (so far) but Now I’m missing the list of my drafts in the Manage/Posts tab. Now, I have to go into WRITE a POST just to see what drafts I have in the wings. What a pain in the ***

If I have a Flat Tire on my car, do I change my oil to fix it? No. But if I forget to put all the lug nuts back on the tire will Fall Off. That is what seems to be happening with WordPress. The tires are all falling off and the car is about to crash.

I have no idea why WordPress keeps doing “ugrades” and keeps breaking the things I like about them in the process. All of this, not to mention hoping that plugins you are using still work.

I’m almost afraid to do the newest update for fear of losing another feature I use and depend on.

Have you found anything else that seems to be missing from WP? Does it get worse with v 2.3.2?

January 17th, 2008 at 02:42pm | Posted by Joe | Rants, WordPress | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post

Pop-ups Are As Bad As SPAM

 Pop-ups, Pop-unders, Glaring Blinking Ads, Blaring Sounds… SPAM

Personally, if I visit a Website or a Blog more than likely I am looking for information or a particular product that I think should be contained within the site. That is all I want.

I don’t want a bunch of junk popping in my eyes and hurting my ears. It serves no purpose but to distract me from my original intent.

If I visit a site, I want it to be inviting, give me what I want and be quiet about it. If I like what I find, I’ll probably be back for more of the same content. If something pops up unexpectedly, even something as unobtrusive as a Newsletter Subscription, you will not only lose me as a Subscriber to your Newsletter, you will definitely lose me as a potential customer. I’ll just click away, never to return.

It is beyond me why some “business people” persist in the assumption that if you put something in front of a consumer, they might buy into it. I have found through personal experience, that the opposite is true. Especially in this day and age of consumer skepticism. They think that everything you do is to make them opt-in on your ads.

Are they right?

Don’t Be a SPAMMER of Your Own Site. Let your readers and customers enjoy their experience on your site. They are more likely to return if they can find what they are looking for without a lot of Junk Thrown in Their Face.

December 5th, 2007 at 03:03pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Rants, Spam | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post

Does Digg Condone Hijacking? You be the Judge

First, I would like to thank everyone who is participating in the Promise to the Blogging Community thingy. I have been trying to keep up with all the links that are coming through from all of the trackbacks, and seem to be doing pretty well. The new traffic seems to be slacking off a bit, but that is to be expected.

What was very unexpected was on yesterdays post with the Buttons, this is what I woke up to this morning:

Pretty cool, huh? So, as per my promise, I decided to check it out by clicking the link and thank whoever was Digging the post.

That’s when I found this:

Who the hell is bizleading.com??? I never heard of them and it seems that all of the commenters on Digg never did either. Almost every comment is “this is not what I Dugg”, “this is Hijacked from…”, “Digg should do something about this” or similar outrage. It seems that this type thing has been going on for a while.

Personally, I never thought that something of mine would make Digg. And when it does, it gets Hijacked.

For now, I’ll still keep the link to Digg it! at the bottom of posts for those of you who like them, but I won’t use it myself on this or any other site until they can fix this problem.

Have you run into this before? Do you think Digg is condoning hijacking? Do you think they even know about it?

Update: It seems Digg has fixed the problem (at least on my post). I wonder if I actually ever even had any Diggs?

September 19th, 2007 at 10:52am | Posted by Joe | Rants | reader remarks | Print This Post