NEW WORDPRESS DASHBOARD, ETC.

This particular blog isn’t exactly active, but I chanced to revisit it today and have just been through a major frustration with WordPress. I was away from all my blogs for a month or so, and when I came back WordPress had changed the dashboard in ways that made it more complacated for me to post the kind of stuff I post on several of my blogs. It had also made yellow faces with different expressions on them a default setting, so all my 2008 posts that included a citation that ended /08 followed by a close parentheses had a yellow face emoticon. I was fit to be tied, but I managed to search the FAQs and find out what the problem was. Then I had to go to the settings of each of my date-based blogs and uncheck the box that WordPress had automatically checked when they did whatever conversions they did while I was away. What a waste of time!