Stargazer from Boondocking Blogger posted an apology to her readers, explaining that she found a misspelled word on a previous post and made a correction, not realizing this made the post come up on her readers' lists as a new post. You can go to her Blog for a better explanation. This was my comment to her:
"Thank you for an interesting post - I didn't realize each edit causes a post to appear again and again to our followers as if it is a NEW post. I sometimes find little things in my posts and make corrections. Probably driving my followers crazy, and I didn't even know it. Live and Learn! "
Last month I had a problem with some information not formatting correctly, and the line spacing was all screwed up. They were the posts about the many ages of a woman, the Captain Underpants post, and maybe another one. I had saved that information previously in other programs and was doing a "cut and paste" into my post. Then I added to it, and published.
I have lots of old files of interesting or funny things I've saved through the years. A couple of times when I've purchased a new computer, I saved documents on CD's (before thumb drives, etc.) and have them filed in my desk. One day I was going through some of the old CD's and found things I had forgotten about. I really enjoyed re-reading some of them, they brought back memories of times and places in the past. I decided to use a few of them in those posts.
So, anyway, I was really frustrated, because they looked fine as I was putting them together and then when I'd hit Publish Post and check them, again they were spaced wrong. I didn't know why they were formatted wrong. I'd change the spacing in the edit mode and publish it again.
One of my readers commented that my blog appeared four times, but I didn't realize what she was talking about. Now I know. I thought it was appearing after itself, four times in a row, but now I think she meant she was being notified over and over that I had a new post. And it was the same each time.
So, I guess I should offer my apologies to anyone who has clicked on my blog thinking a new post is ready, only to find the same one they have already read.
I did finally find out later when an "Aha Moment" happened that if you take text that's formatted in a different program, it might look okay, but you have to take the formatting out, and re-format it to fit the program it's going into. Someone I know had some line spacing difficulties on her professional website, and when I figured out why I was having problems, I e-mailed her and she was able to fix her spacing problems, too.
You would think posting something every day would be pretty simple, but I keep learning new things. I guess it's obvious, just not something I thought about, that it would re-post as if its new. I'm going to need to make sure I do all my edits before I hit the Publish Post button. And check it out on "Preview" too!
Do you ever find a misspelling or something you need to change, do an edit and re-publish?
That's it for today. Thanks again, Stargazer. It's always nice to learn something new, especially when it stops me from making the same mistakes in the future. And - sorry for the misspelled word in my comment. : ( I'll have to start using the Preview function there, too!
From Me and My Dog, have a great day, everyone! : )
(Hitting PUBLISH POST now...)
Full-timing in our 24-foot 2006 Forest River Sunseeker 2200 as of June 1, 2011, I've added solar panels and a catalytic heater so that we can camp off-grid comfortably. My dog, Katie, is great company. We traveled a bit in the Western States our first year, and visited the deserts of Arizona and most of the New Mexico State Parks the next four. This year - 2016 - I'm hoping to find a park model to buy so we will have a home base, but we'll continue to travel, too. What a life! :)
oooops, I do that too!
ReplyDeleteWow! I do that ALL the time. I proofread my entry before I publish it, sometimes reading it over several times. Invariably when it's published and I view the blog I find a little spelling or grammatical error I missed, so I edit and hit publish again. I had no idea it appeared as new every time.
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting us know, Barbara!
ReplyDeleteI re-edit my posts all the times, too! How embarrassing!
Being an programing developer, I have to say it's a design flaw!
Me too!! To all of the above. Live and learn... Thanks for the great info. Stay safe..
ReplyDeleteI'm SOOOOO glad I'm not the only one who does this. I do exactly the same thing - there is always something I see once it's posted that I need to change.
ReplyDeleteWell -- if anyone knows otherwise, please let us know. This blogging is definitely a learning experience for me, but I love it! :) (And if you need to make a change, I won't care at all.)
Barbara
Hi Barbara... I think there something else going on here. Simply correcting errors and republishing your blog will not normally send out any new messages. The only time a new message should be sent out is when a 'new' post is published.
ReplyDeleteLike others have said, I edit and republish my posts all the time and I've never had a problem. This is a pretty standard practice with bloggers and it works just fine.
Was there something else going on with this blogger who said she got 4 notices? Seems strange.
I leave comments and then read them again after they published sometimes and see I've written the wrong word. I always feel like a real dunce.
ReplyDeleteI edit and republish my own posts sometimes and haven't had that issue you mentioned. But then, I'm a dunce with all of that too. :)
I do that all the time too - I didn't know they would repost. Well, now that we know, we can just forgive each other for our imperfections. :-)
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