I think we are up and running.
All posts should be restored, with comments, no less. Most importantly, I believe all surveillance posts are fully restored. We are going from about 3,000 posts to 7,500. And most of the missing were the most important.
Still some work to do, but we are making headway.
Thank you for your patience.
Fonts may get screwed up, I need a new theme, but it will need some customization, and I barely know how to install it. It will take time to work the kinks out.
Complaints are welcomed, as I need to know how to make this look good for everyone.
Thanks again for bearing with me.
Thank you for all the hard work you put into this website and community!
Thank you! The community is my gas.
That explains it. I tried to reply to a comment, but the site loaded in a totally different theme and the comments were not the same. It appears we now have a limit to the comment tree. I also loaded RSS, and there were 177 comments, many of which were repeats. I’ve spent far longer catching up tonight than I planned on.
Not a complaint. We appreciate all of your hard work and dedication, AC. I love this community you’ve built here. Just a new user experience. But at least we don’t know have to put two line breaks in the comments to separate paragraphs from each other. (I’ve commented enough tonight to figure this out.) What spurred the change?
I am back to the old theme, Twenty ten, which I installed fresh. We will see if it is any security risk. I think these things get updated, but don’t know.
Truth be told the guy who was in here appeared to have gotten in the host, so I am not even sure it was anything on this site.
I’ve had something screwy happen on my site recently. I heard in church that a lot of Christians have anxiety from watching Faux News, so I wrote a long post about how to keep up with what’s going on without watching the news. I explained under the Smith Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, “news” is literally propaganda and a few other things, then provided a list of sites and sources I use, including this one.
Then I went to check my site, and got a “This site is not private”. I’ve had it for almost a decade, and have never had a problem. I had to get with my hosting support, who resolved it. Then it came back. This time it had to do with a date in my SSL cert. It’s weird that I start getting problems with a site nobody had heard of and few have been to right after that blog post.
Unless I am mistaken I have never promo’d your site? If you want a link, I am happy to provide one.
That said, lots of people are noticing weirdness lately. It will get worse, and more granular as 2024 approaches. There is some sort of climax afoot.
Nice job!
Thank you!
Whoever was doing it was in the host, shutting off the malware service for people at the level of a tech, he got in the control panel and was creating FTP accounts, he set up a fake database and linked the malware protection to it so it would say the site was clean, he was creating admins in the wordpress.
It was a long road.
No, thank you. You’re doing us all a great service.
Thank you!
Looks decent from here.
Comments working
Scrolled all the way back to the 12/1 aggregation. Where it usually gives the number of comments, they all say “leave a comment”, as if no comments exist.
Using Safari browser 14.1.1, if that helps at all. Will try firefox next.
Thank you!
Using Firefox 119, same issue as before. And when I actually click on each day’s post, they all say “0 comments”, but there are comments. I don’t know if ALL the comments are back, but I am seeing comments despite it saying 0 comments.
Hope this helps.
It does. It may only show comments for posts going forward. Not sure how to correct that, or even if I can correct it.
My current look at the last daily has a header for comments:
0 Responses to News Briefs – 12/04/2023
when there are a number of comments (lucky 13) ending with Marielle of the rouge hook.
It may be an artifact of the move. I had to swap out the postmeta table with the table from the site I reconstructed everything in. As long as the comments are there, it may just end up a bug on old pages.
Complaints? Presently it looks pretty sterile, and like it was set up 15-20 years ago. Avoid bells and whistles (not too many features or sidebars), but make it look modern and a little sleeker. Browse WP themes until you find something you like. Perhaps narrow it down to a final 3-5 themes, link to them, and solicit comments?
That is a good idea.
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“ Thanks again for bearing with me.”
You’re kidding, right AC??
We should be eternally grateful for what you do here.
Wish there was a way for us to lighten the load beyond DFT and the Amazon/Ebay links.
Thank you! DFT and the links lighten the load considerably!
Seconded.
I’d thumb up if that feature was still here.
What are the chances we get a sans serif font?
I will look into it…
Hey AC,
The Recent Comments page is back down to the default low number (~60). Would be helpful if you extended it again. As always, thank you for what you do!
I think I just set it to 200, but am not sure if that is too low or too high?
Time always passes enough you forget how to do stuff.
Thanks AC, I think that should be a good amount for those who use it to skim for lost/missed comments over the last 48 hours or so. It’s the only feature I’ve been able to detect shadowbanned comments in the previous install.
Post by Machine Trooper at TA:
“Was gonna post a comment earlier, but his new WordPress comment widget says I don’t exist. My own website uses WordPress and I’ve logged in recently, so…hmm.”
Restoring the ability to embed pictures would be nice.
Yes, I am trying. I cannot figure out how to kill Jetpack comments, which is somehow overpowering the other plugin.
Machine Trooper also reports an inability to post without logging in.
Alright, I’m giving up on that plugin.
We’ll try another. I need to cache before 2024 though or we will have database errors all over.
The ability to edit unapproved comments would be nice.
Alternatively being able to reply to your own unapproved comments would work.
I will figure this out. I have the plugin installed, but it is being overpowered by another plugin, and I have not yet figured out how to turn that part of the other one off. I am working on it.
AC, the comment like plugin you are currently testing looks like it is connected to the mainstream WordPress.com network. In other words, it forces users to make/log-in to a WordPress account within WordPress servers, rather than using their accounts made in your own servers stored in your databases. I doubt this was what you were going for, as you’d want the like data to be your own, instead of giving it to WordPress.
I had the old Jetpack, and it never did this. I think they updated it, and it has hijacked the old comment plugin’s duties, and if you are right, now it is stealing data too?
Makes sense that Jetpack would force users to make/use WordPress.com accounts. They want the data.
Just tested the new one you just put in today and it doesn’t have this problem. I logged out of WordPress and the thumbs up function works just like before.
The current one looks like a clean updated version of the previous vote and editing plugin. But the formatting bar actually works. Can still edit posts but, as with the previous one, can’t delete them because that function is outside of the bounds of the comment box. I think that’s a problem with the plugin, not your site. Any plugin really should be compatible with Twenty Ten.
Testing line breaks. Looks like using double line breaks is still best practice for making paragraphs. Thanks AC!
That actually wasn’t it. Jetpack was not enabled. I went through and hit save on all the settings in the plugin, and eventually something took and it came on. For some reason it installed, but failed to turn something on.
Things here were flawless, and then I did a chat with their Indian tech service, and immediately, like two minutes later, the database overloaded, like something was doing something with it, I noticed I had a new FTP account created which i did not create, and there was a folder in the hosted files I didn’t put there. For like ten minutes, I was like my hair was on fire, deleting, changing all the passwords, I started a new malware scan on the DB which said there was something in there. Sitelock is on that, but changing the passwords seems to have settled it down.
I suspect intel sent people in to work at the Indian chat service, and the second I authenticate, they are in my system and hand it off to their handler who wants to fuck things up. So I may not be able to use tech support now.
I’m not sure where this site makes people log in to post comments. I just type my alias in the name field and I’m good to go. It’s always been that way.
I think it required an email for a bit after the changeover. I could not find where to kill that, and I could remember the last time I installed the plugin not being able to find it. Finally found it on the form page, where you had to like right click the block after you added it or something.