I may have a blogging problem.
Wednesday and today, I have had problems on my blog. My Wednesday post (which I am not linking to here) posted but the title of the post is not a live link i.e. if I was to send you a link it does not link to the individual blog post. Also, you can not comment on it. I can't, and at least two of my readers weren't able to.
So I am trying again today with this test post, although I am going to try without the picture in the blog post, just in case that photo was part of the problem. My Wednesday post was about a bird's nest on my front porch light.
Over the years, our front porch light has attracted various birds, who have built nests. When we first purchased our house, house finches nested there successfully several times.
But more recently, the nests have failed. Or they were decoys, which some birds do build.
A couple of years ago a Carolina wren built a decoy nest on the light fixture.
This year (above), it was the turn of an Eastern phoebe. We saw the bird a number of times. Perhaps this was a decoy nest, too - Eastern phoebes, many times, will build multiple nests but only use one of them.
Our porch light nest was never used.
We've had American robins successfully nest on our back porch, but not this year.
Maybe next year, we will get the approval of birds for a true nest.
So, let's see if this post goes through. If it doesn't, I'd sure like to know a possible solution that is simple for a non-tech person like me to implement.
I'd appreciate comments, if only to let me know that you were able to comment. If you can't comment, could you comment on my Monday music post and tell me you couldn't comment on today's post? I thank you for your time.
Thank you!
Hello, I am making a test comment!
ReplyDeleteHi Alana, not sure if you saw my post about a week or so ago, but I mentioned about some issues with Blogger. However, and thankfully, I have never had any issues with comments.
ReplyDeleteThe only issues I have noticed is in the Blogger news reader. GRRR
It doesn't publish posts when we want or expect them to post...sometimes your post will appear in the reader anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours later! (if it even shows up at all in the reader).
...to put Blogger simply, it has plenty of problems!
ReplyDeleteI couldn’t comment yesterday either. Your list showed up in my feed, but when I clicked on the link I hit a “file not found” error.
ReplyDeleteI got the same error today fir someone else’s blog,
Problem with American Robins is that they carry guns, eat bacon, and expect you to only speak bird.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I'm an American. A particularly smart-aleck American. But an American.
I can comment!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what could have caused the problem. I wrote out my thoughts as a response to your comment on my blog today, and I'll go and look for that to repost it here tomorrow. (This has been a very long week for me at work, and I'm fried right now.)
The comment reply I posted on my blog:
DeleteI saw that yesterday when I stopped by. Weird. The first thing I'd do is to double check (under "Options" for that post) that "Reader Comments" is "Allow".
Next I'd check "Permalink". I'm not sure if you can put in a link if that's missing, but you can look at your working posts to see what should go there.
I think the safest fix would be to copy the post (from the HTML view, to preserve the pictures and the links with minimal fuss), paste it into Notepad on your desktop, then delete the post. Create a new post, and copy/paste into HTML view.
This is just a guess, though. I've never seen this issue before (but I'm sure someone has).
Well, I had the post show up on my blog list on Wednesday on my blog page. I clicked the link and read the post. I did not comment.
ReplyDeleteToday, when I go to your main site I notice that the Wednesday post title does not appear in red. And when I put the mouse over it, it does not show as a link to the post. So, a problem with the title? But, it had to have worked on Wednesday or I wouldn't have been able to link to it. Odd.
So, I am stumped and love a mystery. I searched your blog for " failed nest" and got this page: https://ramblinwitham.blogspot.com/search?q=Failed+nest
DeleteThen, when I clicked the title, instead of the post appearing on its own page , I got today's garden post. Please figure it out. It's making me crazy, lol.
I wasn't able to comment on your original bird's nest post, however many times I tried. Blogger does seem to be bloggering about quite a lot recently.
ReplyDeleteI'm another of your readers who wasn't able to comment on yesterday's post. Thank goodness the problem appears to be fixed.
ReplyDeleteI've been on Blogger for eighteen years and now and then things get quirky.
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