Paul King

Done, thanks!

I think now that things have settled, I will probably go with this for a while, and might not struggle with switching back until much later. Thanks for your offer of help!

The link now works, but only because I have just changed the permalink to include the date. I didn’t want that; I just wanted the blog name followed by the title. But this seems to break the search function. I don’t see why it should. What else do I need to adjust for the search engine to cooperate with my choice of URL format?

Thanks! I have asked this question under Jetpack support!

Thanks! That worked!

Cool. Thanks.

Well, folks I don’t know why this is, but after deleting the code I added, saving, and even viewing the article in several different browsers, it appears as if the numbers are now persistent to anyone who is visiting.

However, the same lists are presented as a bulleted list if I edit the article.

The article is located at: https://sj.foodsci.info/2020/07/03/problem-with-ordered-list/
But the problem is only seen in the editor.

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It appears as if I fixed the css code appearing in the file “style-rtl.css”

In line 144, I added the stanza:

ol {
	list-style-type: decimal;
}

Prior to this line, there was a description of a massive amount of tags which included the ol and ul tags, and it appeared something was clobbered. Rather than figure out what it was, I just set the list-style-type variable to a value I wanted, saved it and things seem to be going fine now.

One exception: editing the same page results in the numbers turning once again into bullets.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Paul King.

You don’t need to insert <p> tags manually. That’s what the paragraph block is for.

And no, you don’t need to click the + button. Just type. To create a new paragraph block, you hit enter. Just like, you know, typing.

I know that. I don’t think I suggested I enter <p> tags manually, except to hit enter. My problem was that the <p> tags that were entered by “typing” in the manner you sugggest, but ended up being ignored by Gutenberg and everything became one sloppy paragraph for the entire article. This was when using Gutenberg to edit an existing article.

I am disappointed in your response that not ignoring HTML code is too much to ask. This makes Gutenberg an impediment to people who actually know how a web page is put together. Option 3 is not an option, as Gutenberg seems to pick and choose what HTML to run and what to ignore. Do you mean that I avoid all WYSIWYG features when I use the Code Editor for fear that Gutenberg will re-format my article? (I often like to see how my code will look)

All I know is, the “Disable Gutenberg” plugin solved my problems. I understand about changing one’s mindset, but I am not convinced that there are enough benefits to enter that learning curve. This appears to be a play to people who “don’t know HTML”. To everyone else, it just looks like change for its own sake. I have a busy life with things to do, and the last thing I need is to debug code which worked quit fine before the last WordPress update, and to embark on another learning curve to do what I was always doing anyway.

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I would like to avoid manual updates, since I have been able to get auto updates to work this past year, and would like to continue doing that. I believe that there must be something causing WordPress to produce a blank page and not actually update anything. I just have no ideas now as to where to begin troubleshooting, as I think permissions are probably not the problem, after inspecting things.

Well, fixing that is a good start. Which files/folders have permission problems?

I think identifying them is the problem. I have looked at the permissions for wp-admin and wp-content and the top-level dir, and nothing appears out of the ordinary. Or maybe I am not looking in the right place.

Of course, there could also be another reason the page is going blank. When I click “update now”, it does not appear to even go into maintenance mode. I can still visit blog pages, as well as site stats, and seemingly anything else (finding out by creating other tabs, and keeping the blank “update” page running in another tab on the browser).

Yes, that is the script, or at least that is what is in the address bar when the list of articles come up (partial image shown above).

Thanks

The simple fact that the problem I discussed is no longer a problem qualifies as a enough of a solution for me. I frankly don’t care what Photon does, so long as people can see my photos as I intended for people to see them. The purpose of photon does not seem terribly tangible to me from its short blurb, at any rate. Is it some kind of caching service?

Thank you! Disabling Photon did the trick!