WordPress.com – Diary of Dennis

Tumblr Sold to Automattic

Verizon Media the former owner of the microblogging and social networking site Tumblr announced yesterday that they will sell Tumblr to Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. The terms of […]

Dennis August 13, 2019 8 Comments

WordPress Spell Checker No Longer Maintained

Today when I wrote a new post, I couldn’t find the spell checker button anymore. This made me wonder. Is this a new attempt at wordpress.com to get us to […]

I Almost Lost My Domain

Last weeks have been a bit unpleasant. I had enough things to keep track of and manage in real life, but there was something else that was a lot more […]

Now WordPress.com Users Have To Bear With Ads In Subscription Emails

In 2011 when I started my blog at wordpress.com and with a free plan, I was fine with the idea that they would occasionally show ads to my readers, while […]

WordAds Does Now Allow You To Customize Ad Placements

Here is a great news. As it seems, there are now options that allow WordAds users to customize the ad placements on their own sites. In other words, if you […]

How To Restore The WordPress 48 Hours Stats Graph

Introduction Sadly, wordpress.com changed some of the backend features and designs to the worse, but you probably noticed it. Fortunately, there are still workarounds to restore the old editor and […]

Check Out The WordPress Classic Stats Redirect Script V2

Introduction Back then after WordPress introduced a new stats page that quite a lot of people disliked, I suggested you that there was still a way to use the old […]

How To Force A Redirect To The Classic WordPress.com Stats Screen

The Solution To Use The Classic Stats Page If you are blogger at WordPress.com, you might have noticed it, there are not much ways anymore to access the beautiful classic […]

WordAds 2.0 Introduced

The wait is over, WordAds 2.0 was introduced today. If you never heard about WordAds, it’s the advertising program that allows bloggers at WordPress.com to earn a little extra income […]

The Follow Button In The WordPress Action Bar Moved

The WordPress developers are at it again, changing things that worked like a charm. It’s no secret that I disliked almost all recent changes that were introduced by the people […]

How To Force A Redirect To The Classic WordPress.com Editor Interface

The Solution To Use The Classic Editor If you are blogger at wordpress.com, this post here will help you to solve a big problem. As you have noticed, the decision […]

The WordPress Interface And Stats Issue And The Thread Closing Again

There have been many wrong design decisions here at wordpress.com recently and I wrote about it a few times. First they brought us the horrible new editor that we can […]

The Degradation Goes On

It seems that wordpress.com is not finished yet with all the downgrades. First we got this horrible new editor that we fortunately still can bypass due to the fact that […]

Annoying Changes Here At WordPress (rant)

I really start to get annoyed by the constant changes here at WordPress.com. They surely should get rid of these disruptive kids of developers who mean to change things that […]

Partial Success of the WordPress Community with the Beep Beep Boop Issue

As mentioned, WordPress.com users got this horrible and unacceptable new editor. But many active community members did revolt against the changes here in a very long forum thread. Many people […]

Beep Beep Boop?

This post here is only relevant for the people who have their websites hosted on wordpress.com. As most of us noticed, Automattic the company behind the mentioned hosting service, decided […]