America's North Shore Journal

I spent most of last night messing with the backend of this site. The current version of WordPress uses an autosave feature. It appears that if you try to save or publish the post at the time the autosave kicks in, you might lose access to editing that post. The solution I found involved editing the SQL record for the post, a scary prospect, but one that worked. I do not find a way to turn off autosave. As part of trying to fix this problem, I disabled and deleted a number of plugins that I was using. One of them listed the number of viewers for each post. That was a mistake but one that I probably will not fix. For some reason, the thumbnails that should accompany each excerpt on the front page … Read entire article »