(PENDING)Whats happened to my blog...

[NoIP]

Green George said:

BTTT

Green George said:

Dear PH, any update??

Green George said:

Hi Jack. May I have an update please?

@ this thread. That is all.

[Monkeylegend]

They are using the Struthio carnelus style of management so you probably will have a long wait for a reply.

[Jack Mansfield]

Sorry about the delay chaps (yesterday and today were my days off), but unfortunately no update yet! I've pushed for it again - I'll update as soon as I hear anything back.

[Monkeylegend]

Jack Mansfield said:

Sorry about the delay chaps (yesterday and today were my days off), but unfortunately no update yet! I've pushed for it again - I'll update as soon as I hear anything back.

Days off when we are here 7 days a week, what is the world coming to

[Jack Mansfield]

Monkeylegend said:

Days off when we are here 7 days a week, what is the world coming to

takes the biscuit doesn't it!

[PoleDriver]

They'll only fix it when they can devise a method of getting some income from it!

[Green George]

PoleDriver said:

They'll only fix it when they can devise a method of getting some income from it!

Okay, so if they don't fix it within a reasonable period of time e.g.another week, what are my options for hosting a blog for my car?

If you are right, my opinion is it is very short sighted as Pistonheads has always been a site for ALL petrol heads. I have been a member from early on and way before Autocar bought the site. Not sure where to go and how to host a blog.... which is annoying.

[Green George]

Very annoying! I have been looking at blogger and wordpress. I haven't yet found one that offer an option to make historic dated entries; so that I can record the history of my car chronologically.

[NoIP]

Green George said:

Very annoying! I have been looking at blogger and wordpress. I haven't yet found one that offer an option to make historic dated entries; so that I can record the history of my car chronologically.

You can do it on blogger. You can either post 'as is' and it posts at the current time and date, or you can click the 'schedule' button and set either a past or future time and date of your own choosing and in will publish the blog post at that position in the your time line.

Eta: click on 'new post', click 'schedule', click 'set time and date'. Done.

[Green George]

Thank you!

[Green George]

Right set up a free Word Press account but it does not get along with my iMac and refuses to play nicely. Every time I try to upload a photo the browser freezes and I have to restart the computer.
Will try Blogger.

[Green George]

Right, I downloaded the Wordpress app and that plays nicely with my iMac.

https://caterhamsuperlight106.wordpress.com/ this is a work in progress so bear with me.

Bit of a post hijack (however, it is my post) can someone explain how Wordpress 'categories' work please?

I set up a category for each topic:

Full history
Service history
MOTs
Insurance
Repairs and mods etc etc

However it just list the title and then each category under each title. What I want is a list of categories so that anyone can interrogate the blog and obtain the information they are interested in (as long as it falls into one of my categories).

[PoleDriver]

This could be the start of a mass exodus from PH!
Well done
And I'm not being sarcastic! It's about time they realised the consequences of not giving a toss about their customers!

[Green George]

and it was going so well. I am now getting a blank page when trying to edit.... Steep learning curve.

[TVRJAS]

Maybe one of the developers is looking into it because it's got worse over the last few days. My theory being it would of remained the same if it's been untouched.
I presume we are all in the same mess but if you go to amend blog then your last entry made is the same for every entry you've ever made (Well it is on mine and wasn't like this a week ago)

[Green George]

Right I am back on track. I was using the Wordpress app which was locking up. By using Safari I have been able to continue the work. What a palaver! I was perfectly happy with the Pistonheads blogging facility. However, per adura ad astra....

[Green George]

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Thank you, it is a beauty. You are spot on about be able to steer on the throttle. With skinny 175 tyres you have so many options available you you.

[ClockworkCupcake]

The car profile and blog are still hopelessly broken.

Both still exhibit the bug whereby HTML formatting codes are escaped and then displayed verbatim.

So a line break gets converted to <br/> and then that is escaped to &lt;br/&gt; which then gets displayed as <br/> rather than a line break.

Likewise a [url] tag gets escaped to &lt;a href="URL"&gt;text&lt;/a&gt;

[LordGrover]

I think it may be said, we're whistling in the wind.

[ClockworkCupcake]

Oh, and whilst we're on the subject, if you try to edit your car blog, then all the figures are displayed in dollars and all entries have the same text (it looks like all entries are being propagated with the text of the most recent entry).

You have to guess which one you want to edit based on the date, then when you click 'edit' the fields are populated correctly and you can edit the entry.