What? Was there a full moon or something? It seems that the cyber gremlins have been working over time this week and the best laid plans have gone awry. So I am way behind on my blog income schedule for the week.
Today I am breathing easier but guess what? This morning I read my Google subscribed email from Caroline Middlebrook – she’s a super cool gal out in the UK, smart as a whip and both IM and IT savvy, I mean she is developing her own software for crying out loud and her blog is drawing envious traffic in spite of having all but ignored it for almost a year. Well, it seems she’s been doing battle with a weird Wordpress error that just showed up out of nowhere. Now she’s no mean techie and it was days before she fixed the error which she “hopes sticks!”
Strangely enough that makes me feel a lot better (sorry Caroline). If someone of Caroline’s stature has to occasionally get into the innards of Wordpress and smack an offending HTML character and put it in its right place, well, then I’m at least in good company when it comes to untold hours of internet grief.
What was it that set my schedule behind? Not a big thing, but as I previously mentioned my post on Golden Nuggets, little things do mean a lot. The first thing was nothing more than an annoyance. For some reason when I publish or edit and update a post, instead of the usual re-display of the posting/editing page in Wordpress, I get a blank page with a torn page icon at the top left hand corner. The actual publishing or updating happens, but if I want to do additional work in the admin area, I have to log in again. So far, no solution found. This hiccup set the tone for the week.
Annoying though it may be it was not this hiccup that led to the tearing of hair, gnashing of teeth and spewing of language even I didn’t know I knew! I am taking an internet marketing course and we had to create a Wordpress site, select a template and all the nice little things that everyone who has a Wordpress site needs to do. What is it about those who know the steps so well that they could walk them in their sleep that when teaching it they skip through the basic steps – perhaps they think we know more than we do.
Anyway, I’ve never had to do that – you see I use Wordpress Direct which does all the setup for me. Now that I’ve been using it since October I thought it wouldn’t hurt to learn more about the innards of the real world of Wordpress. Aaarrrgghhh!!!
Memory is a wonderful thing even if it takes time to kick in. Two words: Ewen Chia . I have several of his courses. One of them takes you through setting up your Wordpress site/blog. Videos. Step by step. Pause. Execute. Voila! Success at last!
I know exactly how Caroline felt when she had to deal with her Wordpress gremlin. Mine may not have had the hefty muscles of hers but it had the same effect. Calmness has returned to both my inner and outer worlds and peace reigns once again in the land of Blog Income Life.
To Your Awesome Success!
Valentina
