Last week when my right footer disappeared, I thought my blog had been hacked. It turns out that my blog was hacked by me.
Yes, I accidentally deleted a footer text box from my blog and then couldn’t find the text widget in the layout. I think the problem was due to a photo gallery plug-in I had installed. I think it muscled its way into the template and took over the widget territory once run by law-abiding HTML.
Late 20th century plug-in
Power plugs (Photo credit: kewl)
After several days of searching the Interwebs for “missing footer text,” I finally found a comment at the WordPress Support site about a photo gallery plug-in that didn’t play well with other plug-ins.
So, I beamed back to the dashboard and deactivated the gallery plug-in. Presto! The text box reappeared along with my sanity. Now, I’m trying to remember what buttons I had installed under footer-4. I wonder if Google knows.
Oh, and can somebody please tell me how to get rid of that obnoxious Babylon search engine that lurks inside the PDFCreator toolbar. I deleted the toolbar, blocked Babylon under “Options,” checked to see if it was a Firefox addon (it wasn’t) and it still returns at every search like a weed. And you know how I feel about weeds.
I honestly don’t know how many hours I spend searching for shit I can’t find.
I’m glad you found your foot-er. Dismemberment is not a good thing.
It was difficult to walk for a couple of days. Thank God I have a prosthetic footer.
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You have so many issues with your blog. Oh wait, issues with almost everything. Keeps the rest of us entertained though.
Have a terrific Silly Sunday. 🙂
I hope others can learn from my experience. If they can’t, at least they can laugh at it. Happy Silly Sunday.
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I am a complete technotard, so if I ever offer any advise in that area — run very fast.
LOL! I’m surprised I was able to figure out some of this tech stuff. I only lost three days of my life searching for the answers. A small price to pay for earning zilch from blogging.
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I have no fucking idea what you just said.
Neither do I.
Once was a time I was totally on top of this sort of thing. I was a web site designer, for goodness sakes! Now I know nothing. Things change too quickly and I can’t be bothered to keep up.
I often find a plugin that looks really good. I install it and then get pointed to a configuration page. I stare blankly, go back to my plugins page and deactivate. .
Staring blankly … I know that look. : ) I hate wasting time trying to figure out stuff that’s not one of skill-sets. HTML, Chinese, it’s all Greek to me.
Thank God for deactivate.
You need to talk to Mike. When I run across things that I think our blog should have, or things that appear but shouldn’t, I call or email Mike and he makes it happen or not happen. This way I never EVER need to use words like widget, plug-in or deactivate. He can’t do anything about weeds though. You’re on your own there.
Thanks. That would have prevented three days of hysteria. I hate saying widget and plug-in. They give me the willies as do weeds, which I was in for three days.
Oh I cannot TELL you how many plugins have messed up my blogs… and the first few times i didn’t figure it out for a WHILE. Glad you frankfooter is back!
It can be soooo frustrating. Tech issues are the last thing I want to deal with in my free time. I’m glad my frankfooter is back, too. LOL! At first, I thought Colonel Mustard had something to do with it after it had gone missing. Clearly, I was wrong.
Oh Baby! I love it when you talk tech. I have no idea what anything you said means but, damn, I love how you said it, all genius and everything! You rock Lauren!
Thanks Linda. If only it wasn’t harmful to my psyche. I think I’ve got a bad case of the widgets.
Man, if I had a nickel for every hour I spent researching how to unbumble what I’ve bumbled…
I wonder if there’s an affiliate program for that.
I think you’ve touched upon something we can all relate with. Though a frankfurter would be good about now. 🙂
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It’s so frustrating dealing with technical issues when I’m trying to write a post. Blogging is heaven, but it also can be hell. I loved your hot dog post and rating system.
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