“At this point, I can’t recommend WordPress to anyone, for anything.”

In June 2023, I said that to the church vestry, after completing a major project for the church that involved creating a new WordPress blog.  I nonetheless thought I could persevere with the present blog.  As of now, no more.

In recent years, WordPress has made change after change that made it more difficult to use.  The latest apparently occurred February 1, 2024, and has made it impossible for me to continue.

Pages take forever to load, and then sometimes never load completely.  The latest thing: in the compose/edit window, when I cursor into the text box where I’m supposed to type, the cursor disappears.  My time is too valuable to put up with this.

I had thought the problem was the tablet I had, which unquestionably had many problems.  But now, a week ago, I got this really good laptop, and the problems continued — at least in Chrome.  So I switched to Edge.  Same results.

These things don’t happen on any other site.

I hope to have a new blog up, on a new platform, as of March 1, 2024.  I will keep the present blog available (though it will cost me money), for the sake of various resources (The Way of Peace, “Free Speech Handbook,” Guides to Straight Thinking, etc.) that would be cost-prohibitive to move.

So I hope you’ll enjoy the present blog, at least till the end of this month, and then the new blog once it appears.

WordPress has become impossible to use on my tablet, whether in Chrome or in Edge.

I will try to set up my new laptop tonight.

If there is no improvement, I will need to move this blog to a different platform.