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We have CFDB7 installed. I’m not sure I understand how that’s supposed to work. We have clients uploading multiple files .stl extensions. Thanks!

Thank you for your response! I was able to persist and get most of this resolved and then had some urgent requests that needed my attention. I am back to working on this now and I see you have updated your documentation since that time (week ago). Much appreciated! There is only one outstanding issue I have not been able to resolve myself:

getting the round social media widgets under the contact info. I can add the git hub code directly into the page but would like rounded icon.

I sent you the requested login to shufflehound. But I suspect you have been busy. If you have a chance to direct me on this, it would be much appreciated. I am aiming to re-launch this week. Thank you, again!

Thanks! I finally got this figured out for most of it. Then I had some urgent requests I had to work on in between and just now getting back. I see that you have updated your documentation since last I was there (week ago). Much appreciated! Especially the text version. I am a text-based learner and grasp that quicker. Thanks, again!

I came over here after a forced update to 3.8 just to see if there were others who felt the same as I. My search criteria was: Does anyone else hate WordPress 3.8? So without remembering how “usable” the wordpress forums are (I haven’t been here since 2011 and was forced to reset my password)I got here. If that tells us something. I have some dim hope that it will tell the narcissism that seems to emanate out of the elite tech community these days of which I am seeing the WordPress crew a part. Updating because you have to keep protecting what has become a beloved target of hackers is one thing. That is a necessary badness it itself. But releasing updates that mess with the tool you are working with just to say: “look at me, look at me” is really the low of narcissism. I’m here to state the facts: WordPress changed the pro version to look like the .com version for a reason just like they have been doing a number of other things: to basically thin the herd of WordPress developers/designers, leaving many without a job niche. WebDesign depot and other support sites have said as much. WordPress dev community is doing what a number of people in tech are doing to each other with greater alacrity and speed: deciding who “lives” and who “dies” as to the job stack. The more they automate www.remarpro.com (which has come to mean the “pro” version of WordPress because of its advanced customization options) and the more they advertise this to the public, the more they irritate and optionalize us in this job strata. Its the very old passive/aggressive streak I’ve come to know since becoming a part of tech some 14 years ago. Look at the comments on this board, many of them legitimately angry over this and other unnecessary and work-undermining updates. Now imagine thinking yourself the “god-child” dealing with the anger over the years and realizing you have the power to hurt it back. Personally, I think that is at the root of a lot of these updates, that and the “look at what I can do” narcissism. Because lets face it, a hammer is a hammer. It doesn’t drive a nail into the wood any better on Tuesday than it did on Monday. Its a tool and a great one. It hasn’t changed basic design in the years since it was invented. That’s the way a great tool works. Its invented and you leave it the crap alone. WordPress (and a lot of other tech) are tools and the sooner the inventors “get” that they better for the rest of us who use them to build the things we want and need to build. Ah, but then *they* wouldn’t have a job to get up and come to work to, would they. Their job would be done, all except the maintenance of the thing. And you can’t hire more people to maintain, only to “innovate” for the “good” of the development cycle (or the lie they keep giving us to support this ongoing “in love with change” madness). It comes down to us or them, the actual users of the product or those who want to keep riding the tyranny of innovation to keep their jobs. That’s what this WordPress 3.8 ugliness is about. It’s about them vs us and they have decided that they win. Think of what Google has done to the dev community, Facebook, Twitter. They all use the devs who are creating the small everyday building blocks and then kick them in the teeth. They do it to those they used to get where they are. And the dev community needs to wake up to that fact. I think WordPress will find that they have backed themselves into a corner by making enemies of our job strata. Because the more they alienate us (and we leave for other platforms that don’t tyrannize) the more they will be left facing the tyranny of the DIY layman WordPress user, the one that wants the platform to just “work” at the press of their tablet, mobile, other device buttons and that is a whole other conversation.