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Thanks very much, but I’m outta here like Vladimir.

This guy is clearly a literary genius. WordPress has lost one of its brightest stars.

Just re-read my post above. That’s quite rude, isn’t it? I didn’t mean it to sound so hostile. I know that it’s really nasty when people turn against you on the internet, so pritzker58, I hold my hat in my hands: I apologise most humbly to you.

It sounds like maybe self-hosted WordPress isn’t for you. Getting it up and running on a site of your own is gonna involve some messing about with code, either by you or someone else.

If you still want to use WordPress, you can sign up for a blog at https://wordpress.com. That way, all the code and such is taken care of for you.

Or you can go to blogger, it’s a good service. Not so hot on self-hosted, I found, takes too long to update when you have loads of posts.

Whatever you decide, I hope it goes well for you.

Maerk,
Civility? On the Internet? Be still, my heart.

Your last post was the most useful information of all, and I’ll look into it.

Blogger leaves a good bit to be desired, but it’s easy.

To all of you who responded, and tried to help, please understand that, from the very beginning, I knew, and admitted, that the flaws were in my internal wiring, not WordPress.

It’s actually a good topic for a discussion. Is the difficulty a result of the subject, or is most tech writing so poor that it makes the subject unnecessarily obscure?

In my case, probably a combination of the two.
Thanks very much.

Bill (not really Vladimir. Not even Vlad Guerrero.)

Is the difficulty a result of the subject, or is most tech writing so poor that it makes the subject unnecessarily obscure?

The latter would be the case. :o) But we’re trying to ease that problem here, which is why we have the forum. It serves as an augmentation to the codex. Bill, I was completely new to PHP when I started. I came here from pure HTML. After reading many courses in the codex and spending a few hours on this forum, I felt thoroughly comfortable in this new coding environment. That’s not to say the learning curve is slow; that’s simply how I had to go about doing it. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t just want to know what to do; I also want to know why that solution works. So it took me longer than usual to get it down. I wish you good times and happy blogging at Blogger (wordpress.com is still a good choice, too, as you don’t have to touch one line of code); I am sorry WP didn’t work out for you.