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Hi Andrew, Just wanted to let you know that I did create a new post when i was experiencing this problem and got only one reply back, and it was from another member, Adamstar. While i appreciated his response, none of his suggestions for why I was having the problem were even remotely accurate, and i replied back accordingly. Never heard another word from anyone until Shane’s post above.

From everything I can see, this is a glitch in WordPress’ Customize Your Site section. To minimize further potential frustration with new users, is there not someone volunteering behind the scenes with WP who can either remove the Customize Your Site link or fix it?

I feel your pain, OzzieMoose (interesting name ?? ) But this issue has ended up being not nearly as bad as I originally thought. I’ve discovered that even if it appears that I’ve gotten booted out (and this only happens when I’m in the “Customize Your Site” section,) everything still publishes. And it doesn’t really time you out, after all. Nonetheless, if you try to log back in from that Customize section, whatever glitch this is will keep you in an endless loop. I’ve been able to use the back button to go back to the dashboard, and I’m still logged in. Alternately, you can close your browser, re-open it, log back into WordPress. Just stay out of the “Customize Your Site” section altogether. You don’t need it to build your site.

You have to remember that WordPress is an Open Source platform. It’s basically a dynamic conglomerate of brilliant minds who continually collaborate on this powerful and FREE program. None of them are being paid for their contributions unless it’s by direct donation or indirectly through some other service they offer. That’s why the support is in the form of this type of forum, requiring a bit more involvement on the part of the users. And since the rest of WordPress works so beautifully, there’s probably no one person who wants to focus on this particular bug.

Because you’re a novice to this, as I was, I highly recommend you subscribe to something like Lynda.com. This is a great tutorial service that charges only $25/mon (no contract) and covers many dozens, if not hundred, of different subjects. The WordPress Essential Training course, taught by Morten Rand-Hendriksen, is awesome. It’s taken me from novice to intermediate in just a couple of weeks, and I’m only about 2/3 of the way through. It takes time but will empower you to build the kind of site you want.

If you don’t have that kind of time, you may want to bypass WordPress and go with a Weebly type drag and drop builder that most web hosts offer. Good luck to you!

Thank you for replying. I’m using iPage — not sure if they’re on Linux. Not one tutorial I went through indicated this was mandatory. Plus I installed WordPress directly from/thru iPage, so I can’t imagine WP wouldn’t run on their platform.

I use ESET NOD32 AV 4. The virus signature db is current.

When I logged into WP just now I noticed this new message under incoming links that may be part of the problem:

“RSS Error: A feed could not be found at https://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?scoring=d&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss&partner=wordpress&q=link:https://www.goldendaleevents.com/. A feed with an invalid mime type may fall victim to this error, or SimplePie was unable to auto-discover it.. Use force_feed() if you are certain this URL is a real feed”

If this is part of the problem, is there a simple way to resolve it? I’m not a programmer and have only cursory familiarity with HTML — so maybe WP is not the vehicle for me to use in building my sites. It’s been a decade since I created/maintained engineering websites and that was using NetObjects Fusion. On this go-around, I was looking for something simpler, which I’m hoping WP still is.

Again, my site (under development) is: https://www.goldendaleevents.com