you are at the new home of my site, lorenwebster.net/ “In_a_Dark_Time.”
It hasn’t been easy getting here, at least not for me. I’ve been fighting technical problems on my site for the last two weeks. I first noticed something had gone wrong when Jetpack wouldn’t link to my site, no matter how many times I tried re-setting it.
I spent days following tutorials Jetpack posted on how to resolve problems with linking your site to Jetpack. Finally, I gave up trying to solve the problem myself and asked for help from Jetpack technicians. They had me try most of the things I had already tried with the same result. Jetpack wouldn’t connect to In a Dark Time. They told me the problem was with my hosting site.
When I asked my host to help resolve the problem they said everything was operating the way it should. When I followed the links Jetpack suggested, it certainly looked like it should work. But it didn’t.
Finally, I decided that I would switch hosting sites to WordPress, even though I had just paid my annual fee to my former host. My time was worth more than the time I had to devote to solving a problem that I couldn’t understand.
My migration to WordPress went fairly smoothly, or at least it appeared that way until I noticed that there were strange symbols (that I don’t even know how to reproduce) appearing in blog posts. I thought they must have occurred during the migration, but it turns out they appeared on my original site. They had somehow appeared after articles had been posted and proofread.
WordPress “Happiness Engineers” spent several days trying to get rid of them but couldn’t do so. After they were unable to get rid of them on their end, they suggested some plugins that might help. They didn’t. In the end I will have to go back through each blog entry and manually correct them
Ironically, after I had paid to move my site to WordPress, my site froze and my former host moved it to a. new server. Right after that, it linked to Jetpack, at least for a short time.