This morning my WordPress interface has changed. I have read about this happening to other people. So I have to test it out. I don’t like this layout but does it still work? I have a preview button but it doesn’t show me a preview it just tells me that I have saved a post.
So anyway Bramble, Rubus fruticosa. This is a good time to look at it because right now almost every stage of development is present on the bush. I love Bramble, it is one of my top plants. It provides year round cover and protection for all sorts of wildlife. Nectar, so many of my insect pictures are on Bramble and then fruit. This plant just keeps on giving.
These picture were all taken in the last couple of days. Everything is on the bush at the moment, even rain. These last couple of pictures are from yesterday.
So now I am going to press the publish button and then I may delete this post quite quickly. I really don’t like not having a preview.
A Tramp in the Woods 
What? No preview! I preview so many times before publishing, I can’t imagine. Are you posting from the dashboard or from the little “new post” option in the navigation bar?
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Thank you Sylvia 🙂 Up until now both options took me to the same place. Now the navigation bar takes me to a new option of posting from my reader (Which is rubbish) but I have just checked and I can still get the old format from my dashboard. Thank you very much 🙂
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You’re welcome :). Sometimes it pays to be old school. I’ve always done everything from the dashboard, as I started blogging with wordpress in 2005, and that was the only option. But a couple of newer bloggers have mentioned having trouble, and every time when I ask that question, they figure out, like you, that dashboard is the answer.
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I read in the forums that this option may be going away soon. I would be so bummed! I hope they change their minds.
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Dear Fodrambler, since your last post where you dropped a few personal bricks on my toes I have decided I want to know a lot more about you, So, in complete opposition to the whole blogging anonymity crap I am giving you my email address. ( suchled@anff.asn.au ) I really love your site and want to understand more about the ‘tramp in the forest’
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Thank you John 🙂 I really like your blog and appreciate your continued support here. I will email you today. New to blogging, I am finding it really wonderful to be able to visit such far off places and see the world through other peoples eyes.
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I like the look of the blog! Over here in New Zealand, Rubus fruticosa is a noxious weed. It is invasive and strangles everything in its path! So even though I enjoyed your ramble with the blackberry bramble, it’s best to have it where it doesn’t grow berserk!
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Thanks Bruce 🙂 Nearly everything that I write about is native to the UK and invasive somewhere else. Also everything that I write about is wild and a problem for anyone who is trying to tame the wild including Brits. Bramble lives here in a very tough environment and if it wasn’t as aggressive and fast spreading as it is then it just wouldn’t exist amongst the Bracken and Bindweed and Wild Clematis and Nettles. It’s like a jungle out there 🙂 Being native to us it supports a lot of wildlife and Nature has a balance, you can’t have one without the other.
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Mine changed too, Colin.
I exited……. and then entered a different way and managed to get to the old screen method for new posts & uploading images. From what you say, I think we’ve seen the same new WordPress update this morning. I started blogging using WordPress because it seemed better for photography (than my old Google writing blog) and was easy.
I wish WordPress didn’t keep changing their software. For people like me who have intermittent cognitive dysfunction and poor memory, it is both confusing and off-putting. Secondly, I found in my working life that often Computer software technicians would change software without consulting a wide variety of users. We all have different computer skill levels and what is obvious to one user, is like another foreign language to others.
I totally depend on a simple routine and no stress in my life.
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Thanks Vicki 🙂 Sylvia has sorted this one out for me, see the first comment. I too chose WordPress because it seemed to be the best format for my photographs and I hope that doesn’t change.
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I find it quite challenging, too! In order to learn or do more on wordpress you must pay for it! Fine if in fact you get better use! So far, nothing has helped me to create a better blog!
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Never mind all the tech rubbish, I just watched the top video. Fox and badger in the same video? Isn’t that a little greedy? Wonderful encounter. Animal Magic indeed. I can hear Johnny Morris’ voice now. Brambles are great too. Especially for crumbles and jam.
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Fox and Badger ? Yes very greedy. I love those animals. My camera is on loan doing some work for my farmer landlord but it will be back up there soon. Thank you Andrew 🙂
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Hi, after the post has been saved, so nothing gets lost 🙂 it returns to what you’re writing and shows a big green bar at the top of it where it says preview post; if you click that it brings up your preview in a new tab 🙂 I know I’m in a minority amongst your readers lol but I love the new layout, it’s cleaner and clearer, and has loads more space 😀 I hope you will give it another try.
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Thanks Wren 🙂 That preview button didn’t do anything for me. No new tab it just saved it again but maybe that is my connection, I live out in the sticks. My reader plays up all the time. I can’t like a post from within my reader, If I try and do that it “likes” it then when I have moved on it “unlikes” it again and creates all sorts of confusion. I just use the reader as notification that somebody has posted something and that I should go visit them.
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lol yes once it’s saved it, then it takes you back to what you’re writing and above it you will see a green bar has appeared which says ‘previw your post’ just click that and it will then show you the preview 🙂
the reader has a small time delay; lol I have to watch that myself as I change from one reader category to another or I do sometimes end up reliking something which takes the like off; I’ve learned to give it all more time than the ten seconds I was doing before 😀
it’s all practice, but we soon get the hang of things 😀
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have you seen this wp link, http://en.support.wordpress.com/ from here you can watch short videos, they’re real helpful in showing you how to do each thing 🙂 I am laughing at myself because I remember what I was like when I first started on wp, everything freaked me out 😀 but you are doing real well.
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Try this: go to the dashboard and then choose new post. The old set up is still available through that route…best of luck…
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I hurried and saved the photos before you deleted them! Thanks for sharing, The photos are beautiful. I love the raindrops on the leaves. Happy Trails!
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I love brambles too. The flowers are great for the bees and the berries make a wonderful addition to apple pie or crumble.
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Preview still works here, but I lost wordpress altogether last night, it came back this morning.
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I got the new format a few weeks ago. I have only been blogging since January and I’m a duffer with computers so any change confuses me for ages. I’ve only just worked out how the new format behaves. I also live out in the sticks with a poor internet connection as well so it takes me ages to post anything because of the wait in-between clicking and the result appearing on screen and then it all crashes and I have to start again!
Lovely bramble! Did you see D Attenborough’s ‘Life of Plants’ and the speeded up film of a bramble growing? It behaved as if it had a brain, deciding where to go next.
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I got the new format today, as well, and discovered that my pop-up blocker treats the preview window as a pop-up and prevents it from opening. If you have a blocker running, you may have to set up an exception for wordpress.com, just in case they make the new style permanent and across-the-board eventually.
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