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Someone once said, “Change, is inevitable”. I’m sorry change has come so late in our lives, but we can do this!
– Tony Robbins –
There are many great bloggers saying they are ready to just quit, mostly due to the Gutenberg Editor. We older folks don’t take to change very well. We are tired, or we are retired and just want to enjoy simple blogging. Yes, many of us were the startups when WordPress came along, but the world turns, things grow, and growing takes money. So the platform has gone from simple typing, to basically WYSIWYG web page building. It can still be your blogging platform. You don’t have to use all the fancy do-dads (is that even a word anymore?). Find your basic tools to type, arrange and continue to share your world.
“It’s just blocks”
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I know, many will say I’m over simplifying it. Look at it as just a square that you have to use now. You type what you want, you hit enter, you have a new block/square for your next paragraph. You can still do quotes, lists and all the things most basic bloggers need. I’ve composed this using one special block for the “quote” I clicked the plus sign, selected “quote” and pasted my text. Not much different from the old way of clicking the quote icon on the toolbar.
No one wants to lose blogging friends from simply giving up. I don’t blog as much as many others do, but I do love the friendship and meeting new people. If there is one thing WordPress has, that is still great for us seniors, it’s the ease of interaction with the community of other bloggers. I still get frustrated, but I refuse to just give up on something that is enjoyable, even if I blog infrequently.
Maybe, some of us are tired of blogging. If that’s the case, just say so. There is no shame in getting tired of something, at least you’ll be remembered as a great blogger that retired, not someone that was beaten by change. I’m 68, some of you are older or younger than I. Sometimes I stumble into a wall on the way out of the office, that doesn’t mean I am just going to sit in my chair and never venture into the other rooms. I may forget why I ventured to the other rooms, but I am going to try. Perhaps one day, I will need to wrap the door frame with bubble wrap.
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Let’s pull together and support one another. If there is anything I can do to help explain something that I have learned, let me know. I for one, don’t wish to lose bloggers to a challenge. That said, it’s time for me to stumble down the hall for a cup of hot beverage. I do love a good adventure in the morning.
#Seniors of WordPress 🙂
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