problems
Feeds Not Feeding
So, while I was off doing other things, and not paying much attention to the goings on here at shirleytwofeathers.com … Feedburner discontinued their feeds. This means that none of the feeds are feeding, and subscriptions via email are no longer an option. This also means that I have to do a really long and involved edit of all the static pages, and each of the little websites.
I did look for an alternative option and have not as yet discovered anything viable that’s also free and easy to implement. I am considering doing a facebook page… a place to post and share pretty much anything and everything that gets uploaded. The drawback to this is that I would then have to actually do the posting and sharing… and I don’t have a great track record there either.
So… If anyone happens onto this post, and has an idea, I’d love to hear it.
Bright Blessings!!
Still A Little Wonky
So this morning I had to delete all the plugins and apps because one of them was messing up the Gypsy Magick and Lore site. And now I’m trying to remember which ones I had turned on and which ones were off for a reason… sigh…
If there is a weirdness here and there, that’s why. I’m trying to get it all back to normal but with 43 little sites it’s going to take some doing, and truth be told it may take a year at the rate I’m going.
Anyway… That’s my update for today. Hopefully its just minor inconveniences and inconsistencies that will only be noticed by me.
Getting Stuff Done
Today, my focus seems to be on “getting stuff done.” I ran a bunch of errands this morning, and am starting to run out of steam. I really hope I can catch a second wind and get a lot of new content uploaded today! Wish me luck, I might need it!
And what I have gotten accomplished so far isn’t very dang much! There are new memes at Meme City. But… and it’s a big ass but…
One annoying problem is still unsolved. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the blog feed “Newest Memes” to put more than 3 memes on a page. It’s currently set at 10 to a page… but still only 3 show up.
I did, however figure out a nice work around. If you scroll down to to the monthly archives, you can click on each month and get a nice long feed. Here is everything posted in June of this year (2020).
Alternatively, you can click on specific categories. The down side to this is that many memes are tagged in multiple categories, so there will be some duplication. Also, I tried to keep track of what I was posting, but I totally got confused. I think these are the categories with new memes….
- Funny Memes
- Animal Memes
- Spider Memes
- Serial Killer Memes
- Car Memes
- Amish Memes
- Cat Memes
- Failure Memes
- Pandemic Memes
- Airplane Memes
- Fashion Memes
And now I think I have completely run out of energy and enthusiasm. Enjoy!
Down The Rabbit Hole
I have been working on the Pagan Calendar, getting it updated for 2020, and it has been a long slow process. Every year I find better ways to keep track of the days and dates that change, but every year it gets longer and longer as more and more holidays are added.
My biggest issue this time around has been figuring out which posts didn’t actually make it to the A to Z and the 2020 Calendars because they were prescheduled, and published automatically. That’s because I can’t put a link to a post that hasn’t posted yet. So, it’s a tedious process of looking for what should be on the calendar but is not.
Also, I got really lazy about the A to Z page, and now I’m having to go through month by month and make sure that everything is actually there.
So, it’s slow… and boring… and sometimes confusing… and I do hope that it’s useful and worth the time and effort that I put into it every year.
Here are links to the newly updated pages and also a few new posts. I am no where near done, hopefully before the end of January it will be finished.
Searching The Site
I have been trying to figure out how to have universal search widget so that I can search the entire site, but with no success. And then I had an idea. I asked Google to do it. I was looking for magickal information that I had posted about popcorn. I remembered posting it, but I couldn’t find it. So, I put shirleytwofeathers popcorn into a Google search. And this is what I found:
- Corn | Pagan Calendar – Shirley Twofeathers
Published January 19, 2019 | By shirleytwofeathers … Then he thought if he had some milk, he would have popcorn and milk. You can fill a glass full to the brim … - National Popcorn Day | Pagan Calendar – Shirley Twofeathers
National Popcorn Day is celebrated at the end of January, although its exact date is a matter of debate. Various sources report it as January 19; others claim it … - Pond Lily Popcorn – Gypsy Magic
… but this post has been moved to my new website, Eating to Live, hosted at shirleytwofeathers.com, and can be found in its entirety here: Pond Lily Popcorn. - Shirley Twofeathers | Facebook
Shirley Twofeathers is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Shirley Twofeathers and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share…
Missing: popcorn | Must include: popcorn - Shirley TwoFeathers
So, I was going through the posts here on ShirleyTwofeathers, looking at everything that was still in draft form. Doing a little housekeeping, and I found this video.
Missing: popcorn | Must include: popcorn - 43 Best Spirituality images in 2018 | Spirituality, Inspiring quotes …
… Lennart Björneborn. 43. Pins. •. 119. Followers. Board owner. Follow. Yin Yang as Sacred Geometry by Shirley Two Feathers, via Flickr Yin Yang, Geometric …
On page two I found the following:
- The Prosperity Project: July 2010
Posted by Shirley Twofeathers at 1:36 AM 0 comments Links to this post …… named James Vicary claimed to have increased sales of Coca-Cola and popcorn at … - 29 Best Energía images in 2019 | Spirituality, Yoga poses, Buddhism
Yin Yang as Sacred Geometry by Shirley Two Feathers, via Flickr Yin Yang, ….. Palms, Cure, Spirituality, Movie Posters, Revolution, Palmas, Popcorn Posters. - Oopsies daisies film
Note ~ I did not include the link to this one because it’s a malicious website 🙁
Blog Page | Pagan Calendar – Shirleytwofeathers.com … Get the popcorn and pretzels ready: Amazon.com carries all the popular movies you’re looking for, …
Turns out, the post I was looking for was the Popcorn Day post over at the Pagan Calendar. So, that was a lot easier than going site by site looking for “popcorn.”
Then, I thought I’d try it with something different and see what happened. Since I am having to go back to work this week, I put the following into a google search: shirleytwofeathers “back to work” and this is what Google found:
- Practical Jokes | Pagan Calendar – Shirley Twofeathers
Jan 7, 2016 – It’s Distaff’s Day (Jan 7th) and time to get back to work after the holidays. (According to Old English tradition, that is.) A distaff is the wooden rod … - 2010 – Shirley TwoFeathers – old blogger blog
Dec 21, 2010 – Posted by Shirley Twofeathers at 1:47 PM 2 comments Links to this post …… You know you need to get back to work and stop loafing, but you … - September 2010 – Shirley TwoFeathers – old blogger blog
Sep 17, 2010 – Lightly flour inside of moon cake press with 2-1/2 inch diameter cups. …… You know you need to get back to work and stop loafing, but you just … - st distaff day 2019 – Google Search
St Distaff Day | Pagan Calendar – Shirley Twofeathers … Jan 7, 2016 · It’s Distaff’s Day (Jan 7th) and time to get back to work after the holidays. (According to … - Images for shirley twofeathers “back to work”
A fun page full of images from the website. Just make sure it’s shirley twofeathers, and not shirley two feathers, because that image search will bring up a bunch of other stuff. I was surprised by all the cat pictures… does that make me a virtual cat lady?
Issues and problems with this method:
Unfortunately, not ALL of the posts show up, for example, the popcorn post on Eating To Live wasn’t in the first 2 pages of the Google search, although the original post on the old Gypsy Magic Blogger Blog was right there. I’m not quite sure why Google doesn’t like Eating To Live.
Also, in my original search, a post about popcorn over at Meme City was in the top three, but it didn’t come up at all when I redid the search. So, I wonder what’s up with that?
Anyway…
If you happen to use this method and find it useful, I’d love to know. And if you happen to use this method and find it to be totally useless, I’d also love to know. 🙂
And if anyone who reads this knows of a widget or plugin that would work more efficiently than Google, let me know!
Aarrrgggghhhhh !!!
Here’s a picture of me!
This is exactly how I looked all day yesterday, and most of today!
Why?
Because…
There was a temporary problem with my SSL certificate on the website. When I first called Go Daddy … they said it might take 20 minutes or so for them to get it resolved.
And so… hours later… apparently the problem with my website SSL certificate is really interesting and complicated, and now I have a TEAM at Go Daddy working on it… (“a top notch team of experts”) they said it could be as short as 5 minutes or as long as 72 hrs before it is fixed… and in the mean time there is nothing I can do… so …. aaarrrggghhhh… it was so annoying and stressful that I actually washed dishes and cleaned house!
This morning it still wasn’t fixed so I called Go Daddy again. Turns out none of their fixes were working and they had to call in the real expert, “The Developer,” who apparently was the only one who could fix it.
Because now it is fixed, the SSL certificate is working and all is well….
Current News
So, the hard drive in my lap top went south, and I lost a whole bunch of stuff I had collected to use on the various sites here at shirleytwofeathers.com. It was pretty traumatizing! Here’s the litany of loss:
- My collection of over 100 hilarious memes that I hadn’t had time to share on Meme City yet … gone.
- More than 60 coloring pages saved for the Coloring Pages … gone.
- I had so many cool animated gifs… so many… now gone.
- I had a very extensive collection of tiny icons that I use to make the templates for the mini sites … gone.
- The templates for all the current mini sites …. gone.
- The back up for the current static web pages … gone.
- Seamless backgrounds for templates and web pages … I did manage to save some of them, but most of them are gone.
- Collected information on mantras and meditation practices … gone.
- All the pictures and information I had saved for next years projects on The Prosperity Project … gone.
- My downloaded music … gone…. all of it… gone.
And then there’s the confusion factor. I did have a bunch of stuff saved from 2 years ago. But it wasn’t organized at all. Instead it was mixed in with stuff from 5 years ago… and beyond. So, it’s not simple anymore to know what images I’ve used and which ones I haven’t used… which tweaks my OCD in a major way because God Forbid !! I use the same picture on the same mini site twice!!
What does this all mean for the website?
Well, it means that I will have to painstakingly recreate each mini site template in order to update the sites for 2018… which means I will have to go on long exhausting searches for icons and background images… the same goes for the static web pages…. which means it will be a while before I get up the nerve and the energy to update any of them…. which means that I won’t be fixing the glitchy news feed banners anytime soon.
On a positive note!
So there is a very tiny … very slender … silver lining to all this. And that is… hmmmm…. and that is… wait, I’m thinking… something will come to me… I’m sure… Oh! OK!
On a positive note, I still do have a bunch of stuff on all my blogger blogs that need to be moved. I can still post like crazy on all the little mini sites. I did have a great reservoir of information saved over the years. And I have a library of books… and a brain… and my google search engine works just fine.
Also, interestingly… my bulging folder of cat stuff came through intact! How fun is that! I guess you could say it wasn’t a CATastrophe. LOL.
Drastic Action
I had to take some drastic action due to the ridiculous amount of spam comments I suddenly started getting today. On The Prosperity Project, the count was up to 1286 comments … and the comments were coming in faster than I could delete them. I tried a couple of spam blockers, one of them temporarily broke the site… SIGH… so, just for now, the comments have been disabled completely. I need some time to figure out what to do, and how to handle it. Anyway… comments can be left on our facebook pages…
Here are the links:
Love to all, and bright blessings!
Seriously? Really?
So now that I have most of my other issues taken care of, suddenly my super cool animated gifs don’t work? Really?
Because my other animated gifs work just fine…. this one, however… doesn’t?
And now this one doesn’t either?
AAArrrrgggghhhh….
Ok, so I’ll try something really really simple…
And of course, it works… Geez … I guess I’ll have to do some research… some cussing… some tearing out of hair… some cursing… some crying… maybe even a primal scream or two… and see if I can figure it out.
Can You See Me Now?
So, I’m exhausted from looking for a fix to my problem of images not showing up when I share something on Facebook. I can find the “reason” for the issue, but nothing that gives me any idea of “how to actually do it.” By the time I get this problem solved, I should be eligible for a Masters Degree in figuring out ways to solve problems on what should be a simple website but which is, of course, not simple at all because it’s buggy!
I think it's time to go shopping... maybe even buy some really cool stuff at my online shops!!