Old Time Westerns<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nNow, Facebook as a platform wasn’t real sure what “pages” were for – my opinion is that they were basically TRYING to create a “walled garden” to keep users on Facebook – and then of course users see more Facebook ads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No, I am NOT criticizing Facebook for offering new services trying to keep people on Facebook — but “Facebook pages 1.0” weren’t particularly useful for “page creators.” In fact Facebook wanted (wants) page creators to PAY to “boost posts” — which functionally means NOTHING goes “organically viral” on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again, I’m also NOT criticizing Facebook for wanting to make $$ – but no, I’m not going to PAY for the privilege of doing the work of creating a community on a platform, which can decide to kick me off whenever they like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did I mention …<\/h2>\n\n\n\n … I have the required skills to do the “web publishing” thing – so for not much $ I can just setup my own servers and have much more control over anything\/everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SO the motivation behind the “Westerns” page was more about me getting in my “amateur historian” exercise than about building a community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ok, sure, I would love to connect with people with the same interests – which is one of those things the “web” has been great at from the “early days.” Notice that I didn’t day “Facebook” is great a finding people of common interests, but the Internet\/Web is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Facebook is great to “reconnect” with people you once knew or have met – but not so good at “connecting” new people with a common interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hey, if you are “company” selling “product” and you have a marketing budget – then Facebook can help you find new customers. If you are “hobbyist” looking for other “hobbyists” – well, not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, Facebook can be a tool for that group of “hobbyists” – but unless you have a “marketing budget” don’t expect to “organically” grow you member list from being on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
fwiw: “Facebook pages 2.0” has become “groups” or something – Wikipedia tells me Yahoo! pulled the plug on “Yahoo! Groups” in 2020. The “fun fact” is that the whole “groups” concept predates the “web” – that sort of “bulletin board” functionality goes back to the late 1970’s early 1980’s. Remember the movie WarGames (1983)? That was what he was “dialing into.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ANYWAY …<\/h2>\n\n\n\n I have various “example” sites out there – I’ve pointed out that WordPress does somethings very well – but doesn’t do other things well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, you could “extend” WordPress if you like – but it isn’t always the “right tool for the job.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
SO “data driven example” https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/us — <\/p>\n\n\n\n
small “progressive web app”: https:\/\/media.iterudio.com\/j\/ <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another “data driven example” – but this time I was trying to create a “daily reading app” from a few of the “wisdom books”: https:\/\/clancameron.us\/bible\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A “quote app”: https:\/\/clancameron.us\/quotes\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AND then the latest – which is just javascript and css https:\/\/www.iterudio.com\/westerns\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The original plan was to just create some “pages” within WordPress – and I wanted the URL to be “page name” — which is why I was trying to change the “permalinks” within WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My guess is that the problem has to do with the fact the the “uniform resource locator” (URL) on my server gets “rewritten” before it hits the WordPress “permalink” module – which then tries to rewrite it again. The error I was getting seems to be common – and I tried the common solutions to no avail (and most potential solutions just made the problem worse).<\/p>\n\n\n\nTo err is human; To really foul things up requires a computer.<\/p>Anonymous<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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