Hobbo's Poems
A quirky look at life from a Yorkshire poet and his dog's perspective
Beware the WordPress Bug!
Dauphy: You’re in a better mood this morning!
Hobbo: WordPress have sorted our blog out.
Dauphy: Was it the fuffel valve, like I said?
Hobbo: Nope.
Dauphy: The giggling shaft then?
Hobbo: It was the re-usable blocks.
Dauphy: Are you talking Yorkshire again?
Hobbo: When I type one of your brilliant poems onto a page, I turn it into a re-usable block.
Dauphy: Sounds like something to put in the toilet!
Hobbo: I put the re-usable block onto another page, and then post it.
Dauphy: At the Post Office?
Hobbo: On the site. Apparently, I had somehow got a re-usable block inside another re-usable block and that had frozen everything!
Dauphy: Sounds complicated. Can I stick to writing poems?
Hobbo: Course you can.
Dauphy: So how did you solve it.
Hobbo: By deleting all of my re-usable blocks. All 510 of them!
Dauphy: Blimey! You’d better warn other WordPress readers.
Hobbo: I think you’ve just done that Dauphy!
Dauphy: Have I? Does that mean I get a snooze now?…
I know. Word Press can be tricky esp when they make changes to the block system. Blimey as Dauphy would say: 510 blocks — that’s a hard way to learn; but at least you guys are in charge now and readers can relax —
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The block editor thing would only let me bin 20 at a time, so I was there for a while. Wanted to make other users aware because it took the WP team the best part of a day to identify the cause of the problem. 🙂
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sometimes they’re too clever by half 😦
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A block within a block! I didn’t know that was even possible 😅 have you been watching the movie ‘Inception’ by any chance?
Deleting 510 blocks? Ouch! 😬
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Apologies for not replying earlier. I found you hiding in my Spam folder! Block within a block……..don’t ask!
No, I haven’t seen the movie. 🙂
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‘A dream within a dream within a dream…’
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Ah. A description of my life!😂
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Can’t be bad! 🤣
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I only ever had two reusable blocks, for the posts I write which had/have exactly the same intro, every week. Aside from that, I don’t go near ’em.
Even the prompts I do regularly, I never quite post the same text, because there is usually a link in there which changes every week.
Really, people should use them very sparingly because there are very few situations where they come into play.
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Thanks. I know that now. I’ve never worked with a block editor before, and I thought the re-usable block was a simple alternative to copy and paste!🙂
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you sorted now?
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😂Yes. Thank you. Dauphy still thinks that the giggling shaft had something to do with it!
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probably. so do WP
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😂😂
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Sorry for your troubles… That was a rough one!
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Just pleased that we sorted it.🙂
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