{"id":24357,"date":"2020-09-24T05:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=24357"},"modified":"2020-09-24T05:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T04:25:03","slug":"wordpress-sounding-the-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/09\/24\/wordpress-sounding-the-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress &#8211; sounding the Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some free WordPress.com users will be used to responding to the Bell in the top-right of their blog&#8217;s User Interface. They may now be wondering what&#8217;s happened there. Clicking on the Bell should open a sidebar list of recent posts and responses. It now never loads.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/09\/bell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/09\/bell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"62\" height=\"42\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of the slow and stop-start changeover from the old editor to the horrible new Block editor (the free <a href=\"https:\/\/openlivewriter.com\/\">Open Live Writer<\/a> desktop software is the alternative for free users).  <\/p>\n<p>To get to your Bell alerts now, when in <em>..\/wp-admin\/..<\/em> you instead swing over to the other side of the screen, and click on &#8220;My Sites&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/09\/wordpress-bell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/09\/wordpress-bell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"18\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This then gets you the newer interface&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/09\/wordpress-bell-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/09\/wordpress-bell-back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"14\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swing back over to the Bell, now blue. Your alerts will now load&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/09\/alerts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2020\/09\/alerts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you click back to the <em>..\/wp-admin\/..<\/em> UI.<\/p>\n<p>As for <a href=\"https:\/\/openlivewriter.com\/\">Open Live Writer<\/a>, it only lacks access to this Bell, and to the blog&#8217;s uploaded Media Library.  All other WordPress blogging functions are in there, though sometimes you need to right-click on a seemingly-plain icon to find its advanced options (like loading a list of the scheduled posts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some free WordPress.com users will be used to responding to the Bell in the top-right of their blog&#8217;s User Interface. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2020\/09\/24\/wordpress-sounding-the-bell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}