Signatures, please!

Posted on by hollyfrostgoldportpress

As you have probably all noticed, WordPress has broken displayed commenter names. For the time being, please do your fellow readers a favor and sign your comment in the text box.

Thanks very much,

Holly Frost

P.S. We can see names on the Admin end.

57 thoughts on “Signatures, please!”

  1. But what if I don’t want you to know who I am? [Crazy Grin]

    Paul (Drak Bibliophile) Howard

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        1. In some blogs, you can mouse over the icon to see the name.

          Here? Yup. Take his word for it. Or mine.

          Mary Catelli

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          1. Actually, you don’t have to take mine. It’s a feechur that some of us get. Probably logged in.

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  3. For those commenters who have set up an avatar, if you hover over it you can see their names. For the others (the ones with an auto-generated monster avatar), if you use the browser’s Developer Tools (hit F12) and know a bit about HTML you can find the text that’s supposed to be there, but you do need to know where to look.

    Robin Munn

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  5. Amusingly, the text is still there -somewhere-. I can search for “JohnS” in my browser (Firefox, MacOS) and my cursor will move to one of my comments as expected.

    /JohnS

    (I am not a number [1], I am a free-floating anxiety!)

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  6. Message received. Note if you get the comments via email, the signatures come through fine. At least they do for me.

    d –

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  7. Looks like someone helpfully added CSS support for rendering footnotes. Only they used the same class (“fn”) that was already being used for user names on comments, so all the names are getting rendered as footnotes.

    Commenting out a few lines of CSS would fix it, but I don’t know enough about WordPress to know if that’s possible.

    If anyone wants a temporary fix, paste the following in your browser’s address bar when you’re on a page with the bug. You can also stick it in a bookmark for easy access.

    javascript:(function(){document.querySelectorAll(‘.fn’).forEach(function(node) { node.classList.remove(‘fn’) });})();

    Stan

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    1. Those should be straight quotes. Trying one more time…

      javascript:(function(){document.querySelectorAll('.fn').forEach(function(node) { node.classList.remove('fn') });})();

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      1. You can also type the content of the function into the browser’s developer tools console

        I.e. open up developer tools. Click on console if it isn’t there. Admire all te exciting errors being generated and then copypasta this in:

        document.querySelectorAll(‘.fn’).forEach(function(node) { node.classList.remove(‘fn’) });

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  8. I’ll take things to which Codex was oblivious for 500, Alex.

    Though now I get the “We’re number one” banter…

    ~the Agaricomycetical Vertically-enhanced halfling.

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  10. Oddly, When y’all started this over on discord, I had no issue seeing names so figured it was fixed (Mint/Brave). Still seeing them here at work (Windohs/Chrome) random?
    wanders off to look
    Oh, They appear in Read mode, not blog mode.
    WPDE
    JP

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      1. Actually WPDE uses 1 asterisk = italics. 3 asterisks would be ‘italics on’ ‘italics off’ ‘italics on’.

        If you want literal asterisks, you have to use the HTML code: *

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  12. (Swears in several languages)

    I have enough IT sh!t to fix today, professionally, without this…..

    (Swears in several SF languages)

    11B-Mailclerk
    (Attempting to use Weirding Way on stubborn server… phaser on “twinkle” …)

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    1. Phaser on “Twinkie”. What did those yellow cream filled cakes ever do to you to deserve being used on a server?

      Ok, that’s what I saw at first. And an image of a tech throwing them at a server yelling “WORK OR ELSE” appeared in the head.

      BobbieSue

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      1. (Two thumbs up)

        “Phasers on twinkle.” is from an epic Trek RPG back in college 1.0.

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  13. This is why I run WordPress on my own server space. Still the worst blogging software except for everything else. But what can one do.

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  14. Me, I just wanna know why I can’t see my proper avatar when I post thru the web here.

    –Brother Tim, Free-Floating Internet Navigational Hazard

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  17. If I wanted to be known by a number, I would have used my library card for an ID.

    Lady Eleanor Celtic

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  20. So what you’re saying is I can be an anonymous Secretary Bird?

    –Aimee Morgan/aka The Secretary Bird with Delusions of Dragonhood

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  21. I claim to be Almuric but that could be a lie. I mean, what kind of name is that, anyhow?

    Almuric (honest)

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  23. Ah, I see WPDE is coming up in the world. Now almost at the level of 1988 BBS.

    Oh, wait. Even then we had text strings. Nevermind.

    -Dan Lane

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  24. Yeah, writing my name actually seems helpful, as the random avatar they give keeps changing on an irregular basis.
    I mean no offense to our IT brethren here, but too often a programmer will make a small tweak and screw up the whole enchilada.
    I’ve seen it far too often at my own work.
    -Professor Badness

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    1. Which is why testers exist. Because programmers need that second set of eyeballs.

      Unfortunately, too many managers are following the MickeySoft model of using their customers as lab rats.

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      1. too many managers are following the MickeySoft model of using their customers as lab rats.
        ………………….

        Every software job I’ve ever had, except one. Too be fair one job I had I was working for internal customers. They knew from the time they proposed the project that they were alpha and beta tests from the time I delivered the project.

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      2. using their customers as lab rats-
        So true. I have one particular co-worker who is so thorough in her job, she is their #1 bug finder.
        She’s not even in IT!

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        1. Don’t have to be in IT. The software tester we had at Percon was very through. She found diabolical ways to break the software. Saying “no one will to that!” was taken as a challenge. Hated when just before release I was loaned out to her department. Not the best tester, I tended to “know that works, next”. Too dang close to the software :-) fully admitted.

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  26. People’s usernames are also showing up in the side column on the blog page.

    Evenstar

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  28. Working fine today, I guess the programs were just messing with our fearless leader yesterday/today.
    “What something is working how its supposed to work, we can’t have that” WordPress It guy said.

    Today has almost the same letters as Toady, I wonder if that was one of God’s Freudian slips? Yes I know what Der Leader thinks of Freud. Just a figure of speech.

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  29. And the names are back if I am logged in? Huh? And WP is e-mailing me to upgrade to a paid blog. Bad timing, dudes.

    TXRed

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  30. I am actually seeing the names above the posts/text boxes as usual. I am not logged in though; Perhaps it is an issue only for people logged into Word Press without admin status?

    Word Press delende est.

    Cardshark

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    1. Nah. Yesterday I was seeing what was reported, I wasn’t logged in, I don’t have an account. Fine on emailed comments, once c4c & clicked the appropriate box.

      d

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  31. Every time I clicked on the COMMENT link WP would open the page and immediately go to “Subscription management” and refuse to let me access the site.

    I’m not even sure what I did to access this form of the site.

    Regardless, I’ve never signed my posts ere this and I don’t intend to commence doing so now.
    ~
    Rgrds,
    RES

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