It was beginning to feel lonely in blog land. No comments, not a one, for close to two weeks. I wondered what was up. Did I forget to shower? Been eating too many onions? Or did I say something really STUPID and offend everyone?
Which, trust me, wouldn’t be the first time.
And then Donna contacted me on facebook. Asked me what was going on because her comments were not going through.
It was a Homer Simpson moment. A big “D’OH!” Or, in Oprah speak, “AHA!”
Turns out I had a SPAM filter run amok. The comment police working overtime. I was able to go in there and manually sort through everything. Marked your beloved words “Not Spam”. Then I had to find them in another folder and mark “Approve.” Then I had to repeat the process for my replies.
I’m not sure what the problem is but until I can fix it I promise I’ll check the SPAM folder daily. Your comments will appear the day you post them and I WILL answer every one. Because I love the conversation that’s been happening.
And I want to grow this blog into a community.
So bear with me while I iron out these growing pains. I will be blogging throughout the holidays although I might be posting through my ipad or phone while the computer is in the shop. Always an adventure. And I’ll look into using a different comment plugin.
And the big news–come January I’ll be taking a blogging e-class. I’m new to this and am open to finding the right direction and making this blog ROCK. I’ll share the details as they happen. And I’ll be posting the class info later.
Meanwhile, can anyone tell me–did I use the right ‘bear’ up there?
I’d love to hear about your blog e-course. And I see you are on WordPress too. I had to buy a book to figure out WordPress when I first moved to it from ‘blogger.’ Now I actually prefer it. I use the Akismet plugin to deal with spam. I was getting so much – but this plugin has taken care of it.
I use the Akismet plug-in to deal with SPAM too, Judy. Don’t know why it’s misbehaving. The only thing I’ve done differently with the blog was to do a backup (Backup Buddy) a couple of weeks ago. I don’t see how that would’ve caused the problem but then again, what do I know…. I checked the settings and they haven’t changed but Askimet is on SPAM steroids right now. Labeling everything as junk, even you. Ohhhhh noooooo!!!
Here’s the link to the blogging course: http://livlane.com/ecourse-home-page/ Would be cool if we both take it. Re-reading the syllabus got me all excited again. I think it will be worth it.
I know what you mean about learning WordPress. I was pulling my hair out until I found Headway (headwaythemes.com). It’s drag and drop, so easy even I could do it.