editor

Dear WordPress. JUST STOP IT!!

~ Ron Walker ~ 21 Comments

We already know you don’t listen to input. The business model and money drive what was once an enjoyable hobby. The incessant badgering about the new block editor (which isn’t new anymore) is reminiscent of the crazy world of Windows 10 when it was forced on the world. We get it, just throw the damn switch already! I’ve been using it for months now, Why do I have to cancel a “Welcome to the new editor” popup this morning? I am fortunate that I use my desktop mostly, as from what I have gathered, the mobile versions of the new block editor, or should we call it what it is, Web page creator, just stink. Mostly unusable from what I gather on some devices.

Try doing it quietly

And while I’m in this ill mood because many great bloggers I know are talking of walking away to other platforms, let me clue you in on another stupid idea. WordPress security. You mean well, but for the love of all that is holy, stop putting out the alerts expounding on how you found twenty zillion vulnerabilities in this or that plugin, that is used by hundreds of thousands of WP sites. Makes one think perhaps they shouldn’t log into their WP site, let along use or purchase an add-on in your massive plugin/theme store. Try doing it quietly in the background, unless you actually have an ego the size of Jupiter that needs this attention. If half as much effort had been put into the launching of the new editor, as the scary security alarms the Guttenbust editor would have been a wonder to behold.

Here’s a novel thought. Maybe have those teams of highly paid security units, vet the plugins BEFORE they are released, and not scare the bejesus out of the rest of us. It’s getting depressing reading all the security holes in WP add-ons. Actually, you’re starting to convince me, that perhaps I should look elsewhere for a blogging platform.

Okay, thanks for patching them. However, why even mention it.

Moments ago, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team published details about two vulnerabilities that were discovered and patched in Facebook for WordPress, a plugin installed on over 500,000 sites.

email this morning.

Okay, thanks for patching them. However, why even mention it. It doesn’t instill a lot of confidence knowing they were there in the first place.

Please, stop fidgeting with my defaults. Every time you update something, I have to go on a safari to find simple things that used to just “be there” because I used them before. Like this morning. I wanted a simple “Quote” block. Clicking for a new block gave me..

First. WTH is a Eventbrite Checkout or a cute and cuddly sounding Calendy. I simply wanted to use a quote block that I had used before, and should have been there at my fingertips for convenience. No, I have to wade through business site related options that I will never use. Maybe a rebranding from WordPress to SitePress would be more appropriate at this point.

Please. Just stop trying to help me.

Comments from actual bloggers welcome. Don’t worry, if the way we comment has been changed I’ll wait.

Adding Time Stamp to Twenty Eleven Theme (WordPress)

~ Ron Walker ~ 2 Comments

Okay,  I’m no coder but I do like to tinker and dig around if needed. The Twenty Eleven theme for WordPress has only the date on the Index page and on the post page as below. I searched on Google looking for someone who had done this. I absolutely could not find someone. That is why I am posting this so if anyone else with Twenty-Eleven would like to have the time stamp they can follow this.

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I wanted the Date and Time to show. First I checked around and found out the php syntax for the Time. Using the Editor in the Admin>Appearance section I located teh two areas below. Then I had to search painstakingly for where to place the code. I located these areas in the two sections.

content.php
Search for “posted_on” (without the quotes) and locate this code section. Add the bold code below including the spaces before and after ” at “.

<?php if ( ‘post’ == get_post_type() ) : ?>
<div class=”entry-meta”>
<?php twentyeleven_posted_on(); ?> at
<?php the_time(); ?>

The next area was content-single.php

Again search for “posted_on” (without the quotes) and locate this code section and again add the bold code including the spaces before and after “at”.

<?php if ( ‘post’ == get_post_type() ) : ?>
<div class=”entry-meta”>
<?php twentyeleven_posted_on (); ?> at
<?php the_time(); ?>
You should now have the Date and Time showing on the index, and when viewing individual posts. I hope this helps someone as I know it was a challenge to find out how to do it on my own.posts

Comments welcome,