The story of Fionnuala, Aodh, Conn and Fiachra, shunted from pillar to post by a cruel enchantment, is one of courage and fortitude. It has all the wild beauty of the old pre-Christian myths. Unfortunately for Lir’s children, their nine hundred years of journeying carries them from pagan times into the new order, and for them, there is no passing through the door to another life of everlasting summer and laughter. Instead, release from their enchantment leaves them piles of dessicated dust, a grim redemption through death.
But what is this site about? The story of the children of Lir doesn’t have to end in wasted lives and anachronism. I hope to write a different ending.
The Four Swans 
I am here to stay 💜
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I hope you do 🙂
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Definitely 💜
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I’m here too… A devoted fan of your writing and poetry. I’m using a classic theme and it’s giving me heck!! I want to share an article with you about these older “core” themes. There is a proposal to retire them: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/05/16/proposal-retiring-older-default-themes/. This will filter over to wp .com as well. I’ve been having issues with the classic themes as well. I think this is WP’s way of pushing us into the FSE themes. I can’t read the print on those unless there is a darker background. I’m sure there are more changes ahead.
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Thanks Colleen 🙂
I used twenty-fifteen. It had a lot of options, probably too many for a free theme. I did wonder if it wasn’t getting old. It wasn’t offered when I set up my new blog, possibly for that reason. I went for the twenty-twenty three as it’s obviously the newest one. I hope they don’t retire it. It’s a pain setting up new themes and most of them aren’t really suited to straight prose with the odd photo.
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Exactly! I fear the classic themes (that’s what they call all of these that we’re on) will be replaced by the full site editing themes. I will have to try the 2023 theme. I’m trying to stay with the visually readable themes.
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I thought that by starting a new blog from scratch I’d get rid of all the glitches, but it seems that I’ve brought the main ones with me—not being able to leave likes and having to log in each time I want to leave a comment. This might not work out so well after all.
As a theme, this one seems okay. It has several colour schemes and you can set the font and font size.
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Sign out and log back into WP. You shouldn’t have to sign in each time. Check the settings on your browser. Make sure you have it set to accept cookies and allow cross site tracking. That caught me a few weeks ago.
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I’ll try logging out and logging in again. Haven’t tried that one for a while. I’ll check Firefox too.
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I had to leave Firefox. It kept freezing on WP. Let me know if it worked. It’s the same issues I’ve had with Firefox.
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No, it didn’t work. Cookies enabled too.
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It has to do with cross site tracking. Make sure that is enabled. If it’s not, you have to sign in to view every website.
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The other setting to look for is the cookies are clearing out every time you log out. Make sure Firefox lets you keep your cookie settings until you clear them.
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I’m here too Jane
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Hello! I’ve brought the bugs too, but at least I have less clutter 🙂
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Great stuff!
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Here too.
I had that problem with signing in and out and leaving comments for months last year. I finally reluctantly had to leave Firefox and return to Chrome. Now it’s mostly ok.
There are definitely bugs in writing posts. It keeps changing on me though usually I can work around it.
Caroline says it’s because they just put bandaids on problems rather than actually fixing them. She said WordPress is known for that. (K)
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I had hoped that by starting a new blog the problems would go away. Some of them have, like I don’t have to set the font and font size foe every single post and I can link to other web sites, but the main problem (logging in, not being able to like, comment or follow) hasn’t changed.
I’m still waiting for the happiness engineers to reply. Going to send a chaser.
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I am here too, Jane. Wouldn’t like to be deprived of your lovely poetry. 🙂
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Thank you, Punam 🙂 It seems I haven’t ditched the glitches after all. At least there are fewer of them here.
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Some glitches of WP never go away but one has to be grateful that there are fewer. 🙂
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Sorry you had to experience glitches. I was in a similar boat, using a theme which was discontinued for years.
Hopefully, the new place lets you enjoy creativity more as opposed to dealing with technical difficulties.
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I’m pleased you found your way here. I wondered if it might be the theme that wasn’t supported any more and chose this one, one of the new themes. Unfortunately most of the old problems remain about following and leaving comments on other blogs.
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I have unfortunately found that there is little cure for that, I constantly struggle with people getting unfollowed by themselves or getting subscribed to stuff I never pressed. Here is to hoping the situation gets better, and they fix some of these bugs that are present for years.
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It’s possible that WP has got too big and unwieldy. It might also be that they want to push everyone to the paid plans. Most of the themes are paid now. We’ll see if they even get back to me.
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