ABOUT THAT LAPSE

Friends, readers, followers

There are many times in the course of time that things change and often those changes are out of ones control. Such was the case with my site “In the Trunk Room”. Perhaps you may have gone to see what was new and found the site without text. It did indeed happen to me.  The proverbial Reader’s Digest explanation for it all was a technical protocol to which WordPress      ( our site host ) subscribes – that being that themes of sites are time limited. It seems that after twelve years, the folks at WP made the assessment that our theme was obsolete and hence it was erased along with the text from the site. The problem was, aside from the obvious, that they neglected to inform the author – me. The state of anxiety was heightened by the fact that I had no idea how to remedy the condition. Finally, after weeks of panic and frustration, I was sent to the tech support/web builder team and then things began to one, make sense, and two show signs of being restored to function.

The bottom line was that, with the assistance of several team members and their patience working with a non techy as myself, a new theme was selected and installed, the archive ,  the text – which was never actually lost, only not visible to the the public   – and likewise the contact information for readers were restored. There is also a Comment mechanism as before though I have not yet found the activation for it so direct emails will have to suffice.

My thanks to the web building team, apologies to our readers and, while I contend that the old theme was far more to my liking, the current one is, though a bit stark, workable and we are, as they say, back on the rails again.  Here’s hoping writers block and the chaos  which is the current state of affairs these days will not continue to hinder publication.