Anti Reformed?

I think I’ve had a change of heart.

Yes, I know I’m a princess. Apparently in more ways than the norm.

My Live Writer wasn’t talking to WordPress correctly or maybe WordPress wasn’t listening to Live Writer correctly or possibly my server wasn’t listening to either of them correctly – so I just didn’t blog anymore.

Okay, so that isn’t the whole reason, just the icing on the cake. I have been adjusting to working and haven’t had a lot of time to blog. I also made a deal with myself that I wouldn’t blog about negative things and obviously didn’t have a lot of nice things to say.

Live Writer’s html tags being stripped when I published, well, that was just the final straw.

And…to top it off it wasn’t Live Writer’s fault. I’m not sure what happened that made it stop working out of the blue. Even more frustrating were the fixes dating back in the early 2000’s and here I just started having issues with publishing.

I also tried installing WordPress on my phone so I could blog from it. Didn’t work either. Lead me to believe it was server side issues.

Instead of finding a solution, I just said to heck with it. Instead of creating a post while in the dashboard of WordPress, I just said to heck with it.

Yep, princess mode.

It didn’t help that I miss my Blackberry. I miss how all of the software worked together. If I dig deeper into things, I really miss my Palm – my Treo to be exact. Okay, so if the truth be told I miss having a cell phone and a PDA being separate from each other.

I also miss the days of being able to “google” for information and actually finding it. I can’t even find simple instructions on how to do anything online anymore. Everything is about top-ranking in searches today. I don’t care who is number one as long as it is going to not waste my time while researching.

I use to be pretty good at this stuff. What the heck happened?

I took a chance last night and searched for a solution. Strangely enough I found a post on how to strip lines out of WP headers if you weren’t using Live Writer to publish. It apparently makes the weight of the post lighter for quicker loading and potential to move you up in SEO rankings in searches. Hmmmm….

Backward approach? I’m pretty backward at times so I tried adding these lines instead of taking them away.

So, I added, to my theme’s header, these lines:

<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://yoursite/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />

<link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="http://yoursite/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" />

Now she works.

How did they get removed in the first place? Was it a plugin I used? Nope. Checked the original them for those lines and didn’t find them. Still a server side issue because those lines aren’t in any of the themes I used before and my current theme did work at one time.

Problem solved and now maybe this princess can start blogging again.

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