“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
UPDATE: The move is complete, and we are now ON THE NEW SITE – RIGHT HERE!!!
At 1:30 AM Eastern Time on December 4, 2020, the old site (wqth.wordpress.com) closed behind a “Coming Soon” banner, and two hours later, the NEW site opened HERE:
Having shut down comments on the old site, I will slowly decommission it, possibly keeping it as an archive and “back-up”, but all activity will shift to the new site.
We were ready WELL before 6 AM.
There will be some minor fixes over the next day or two.
The old site (wqth.wordpress.com) remains up, with a “GO TO THE NEW SITE” message at the top, but has been closed to comments, and will be decommissioned later, at some future date and time.
If this is your first visit to the site, please visit our WELCOME THREAD!!!
If you are interested in understanding our approach to QAnon, please visit out ABOUT PAGE.
NEWS will continue be posted BELOW.
Thank you, God bless you, and God Bless America!
W
JetPack News
You know the little bell at the right end of the black bar from WordPress? The one that gives you notifications about likes and replies to your comments? The one that makes it very easy to have a conversation with somebody – or to check if people have replied to your comments?
That “bell notifier” is powered by a plugin called JetPack, from WordPress.com (DOT COM). While we are moving OFF WP.com, we are still using both WordPress itself, from WordPress.org (DOT ORG), and the JetPack plugin (free version).
If you want those notifications, you have to allow WP.com to link to your account here using JetPack. I have done everything I can in settings to make that simple yet reliable, based on our early testing of the new site.
If you want to get “bell notifications” for posts here, you just need to do the following:
WHITELIST this site, or allow it to use ALL COOKIES, particularly for wordpress.com
Be sure to have your browser remember your login username and password
Find JetPack in your SETTINGS, and LINK TO WORDPRESS.COM
If your first comment gets moderated, wait for approval, then try another comment
Get my attention if you have problems. Others may offer some help.
If you have done all this correctly, you will start seeing “bell notifications” of replies to any comments on this site.
Right now, 23 of our 56 registered users have JetPack notifications working!
There is another notifier on any page with comments – the “green circle with orange numbers”. That is a “new comment” notifier in wpDiscuz, the commenting plugin. That plugin is separate from JetPack, even though the two plugins both handle the same comment data. Likes in JetPack are not reflected in the “+1 / -1”, like / dislike system in wpDiscuz.
I will discuss the wpDiscuz plugin more later.
wpDiscuz News
We seem to have settled on a new comment layout manager, known simply as [COUGH] “Number Two”. This one has nice vertical lines to show indentation, but it also has fairly wide text. We were using “Number One” at first.
More Information: https://wpdiscuz.com/docs/wpdiscuz-7/customization/comment-layouts/
Number 1
Number 2
Number 3
We have CHANGED the voting method from “up/down” to “standard likes”. That was a fairly easy decision by our members!
We have also ENLARGED THE FONT and MADE IT BLACK – this got almost entirely POSITIVE response.
There will be more technical discussions – stay tuned!
OK – here is an update on the new site. I’m putting it here ON the new site, so people can start getting used to commenting over here.
I have decided to go for SMOOTHNESS OF TRANSITION rather than CLEAN FAST BREAK.
PATIENCE. It’s a virtue.
Most of the posts transferred. We only have about a week at the end of November, plus whatever days in December before we move, to be moved later. Almost all our images have transferred. If we’re not OCD and/or perfectionist about things, the copying of the sites has been 99.9% successful.
On the PLUS side, we can use more modern commenting systems that use modern technologies like REST and AJAX to avoid reloading entire pages for EVERY SINGLE COMMENT. In particular, we are now using the wpDiscuz plugin, which is a bit like Discus for WordPress.
The main NEGATIVE, however, is that we are having a LOT of trouble getting comments to integrate with the WordPress-dot-com notification system which is part of their “JetPack” – what most of us refer to as “The Bell” or “The Bell Icon”, located in the “WordPress.com Menu Bar” – a.k.a. “The Black Band”.
While I was able to get SOME notifications about replies on the new site to propagate in the “bell notification system”, most people saw either spotty or no performance this way. This may be a function of whether individuals have properly identified themselves to JetPack on the new site – something that is frankly too tenuous to be trusted. We cannot count on this to communicate.
Bottom line – we no longer have “bell icon notifications” on this site. I will keep trying to get them, but they’re not likely to happen soon.
I do have some good workarounds that I’ve been using. The WordPress-dot-com comment page is actually a pretty good ticker of posts as they are happening. I’m not sure if everybody can see it, or how much they can see, but it may be a start.
I did get the “Home” and “Contact” links to appear in the top menu. See above!
I will have the sidebar updated to match – ROUGHLY – the sidebar on the old site, very soon.
All our categories and key words transferred. All our old comments. I *MAY* lock the older posts, but not yet committed to this. WordPress has a setting for closing commenting after 14 days. It’s something I plan to consider.
During testing, we ran into some interesting capacity for EDITING OF COMMENTS that looked like a bug. Turns out that this capability has always been there for AUTHORS on their own posts. Daughn actually found and used this capability to deal with a flame war on one of her posts, once, in the early days of this blog. Otherwise, she followed my preferred practice of NOT editing things, but rather letting the record stand – 100% sunlight – no deletions except under extreme circumstances – KEEP THE EVIDENCE – DON’T DESTROY IT.
This is why we count on authors to show EXTREME integrity, and not everybody is an author here!
Now – one more point.
What would you think about actually becoming a FORUM? Or just ADDING ONE?
I found a plugin that we may REALLY like. It is a plugin for WordPress that creates a FORUM.
SO – if we wanted to actually become a FORUM – we could do it. We could even ease into it, by keeping our current model, but creating a “forum next door” with a link on our main page.
Something to think about.
Bottom line – there are MANY possibilities awaiting us. My first step is simply to get the new house ready for occupancy! From there – who knows?
Have a great week!
W
American actor James Coburn (1928 – 2002) smoking a cigarette. (Photo by Harry Benson/Getty Images)
A link to my previous statement: https://wqth.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/dear-kmag-20201130-open-topic/comment-page-1/#comment-680960
That Statement:
OK – quick announcement. I will put up an article later, but I want to get people started a.s.a.p.
If you’ve ever authored on the old site, you have an Author account on the new site, under your old author credentials, which were imported along with everything else.
I’m asking people to go over and just try to do a fake article as a test. You can entitle it “Author Test – myhandle” if you want, or whatever you want to call it. Just see if your authorship WORKS.
Also, I took a step to make logins easier. I checked two boxes to let “JetPack” handle logins:
WordPress.com login
Learn more
Add an extra layer of security to your website by enabling WordPress.com login and secure authentication. If you have multiple sites with this option enabled, you will be able to log in to every one of them with the same credentials.
[ENABLED] Allow users to log in to this site using WordPress.com accounts
[ENABLED] Match accounts using email addresses [DISABLED] Require accounts to use WordPress.com Two-Step Authentication
We can always turn this back off, but hopefully this will make sign-ins by authors smoother.
Give it a try! I will put up a thread for comments back and forth with me by people testing.
Please keep comments here so that I can keep track of helping people get logged in, etc..
“I will be in Georgia on Saturday.” -President Trump
BUT WAIT……
WHAT THE ACTUAL FRACK!
No, the 2020 Election was a total scam, we won by a lot (and will hopefully turn over the fraudulent result), but we must get out and help David and Kelly, two GREAT people. Otherwise we are playing right into the hands of some very sick people. I will be in Georgia on Saturday! https://t.co/1ziqFq9S6O
I’m calling B.S. on NewsMax and “Trump supporters”! DUPES and CONTROLLED OPPOSITION!
Saved as an image, useful now for those of us who turned off Twitter embeds…..
Here is the deal.
Yeah, it is becoming very clear now how the DNC, the globalists, China, FACEBOOK, treasonous IC, and GEORGIA RINOs created a “comfortable RINO surrender in the middle”, whereby Georgia enabled CHINA to not only attempt to take out Trump, but to have an “insurance policy” on the Senate – that if the Democrats and RINOs conceded to a Trump win, they could STOP TRUMP with a typical UniParty undermining job on the two Georgia seats in the US Senate.
Oh, those DASTARDLY CHINESE COMMUNISTS ARE TRICKY!
Obviously, this has put not just President Trump, but Leader McConnell, in a very tough spot.
TREASONOUS RINOs? TREASONOUS social media? TREASONOUS MSM?
Thankfully, that PLOT has became completely apparent very early, enabling OUTRAGE by the base.
In a vary typical and Alinsky way, the UniParty has tried to respond to that outrage by pushing it to absurdity – i.e. – a badly intended BOYCOTT.
FUGGEDDABOUDIT!
No way.
NOW is the time to pour all our firepower on Georgia.
I can sense that the KRAKEN has broken a logjam. Dirty Dems and Deep State know that trouble is coming, and that the STEAL ON TRUMP will not go down. And it could be EVEN WORSE for the Deep State, due to Trump’s beautiful Executive Orders.
Rumors of Biden being talked into concession by the Deep State Fake Elections Intelligence Community Apparatus strike me as real. If Biden-Harris calls it off, maybe their allies don’t all GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL as the FIRST STEP of election reform.
Trump just spilled the beans in a radioactively and correctly aging tweet:
Biden can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous “80,000,000 votes” were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. When you see what happened in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia & Milwaukee, massive voter fraud, he’s got a big unsolvable problem!
This big fight is to not only save the PRESIDENCY – it is to not only TAKE THE HOUSE – it is to under absolutely no circumstances yield the SENATE.
Georgia needs to be caught in a CROSSFIRE by both Sidney Powell nailing them on The Dominion Treason, and by the RNC on winning races and keeping China and Zuckerberg from stealing the Senate!
We will deal with him until he is BEHIND BARS. In fact, HE is our ticket OFF WORDPRESS. We are going to go after this Chinese SPY until he FORCES WORDPRESS to kick us off.
BYE-BYE, MARK THE SPY!
Ready for the fight?
BE AT YOUR PROTEST ON SATURDAY! TODAY!!!
It’s even BETTER if you’re not in Georgia, because we are going to bring so much pressure from OUTSIDE GEORGIA that…..
NOTE: Although this after-dinner well-wishing was delayed due to a long list of post-Thanksgiving-dinner chores and duties, performed meticulously and faithfully, it’s still Thanksgiving in California, so here we go.
I just wanted to take this opportunity, after a great Thanksgiving dinner, [Trump supporters all, complete with two pilgrims, an Indian of friendly but mysterious nature, a recent immigrant, and a shaggy dog, maybe not a crowd, but surely in violation of some ridiculous COMVID / SQUADPOX / CHINA VIRUS mandate], to say THANKS TO GOD for our arrival on these EPIK New World shores!
Indeed, as we sat down to our Thanksgiving dinner this evening, we almost “dove in” per the customs of one anonymous diner, were it not for my insistence that we should STOP FIRST to name the things for which we were thankful.
[You will see that, as a PRAYER WARRIOR, I’m LAZY but CUNNING. It’s part of being OLD.]
The personal things went first – lives spared, diseases healed – and then the allegedly bigger things – peace preserved, wars averted. A few generalities – good health and economic blessing. But then the biggie, on which all agreed.
Four years of President Donald Trump. Four years of the greatest president in our lifetimes, against the will of every villain on Earth.
Everybody else seemed ready to say THAT was it – we’re THANKFUL – now let’s eat!
But I could sense that people were worried – that it was “just” four years of President Trump, so I said “WAIT!”
I don’t remember my exact words, missing a few articles and prepositions, and decidedly shortened for the mixed English abilities of our motley American troupe. Half words – half facial expressions – half intuition and half innuendo – as some languages actually are. However, rest assured that these words were both intended and in fact received as the following message.
“It is by the POWER of our THANKS TO GOD for the PAST, that the FUTURE BRIGHTENS. It is by our PRAYERS OF THANKS for what we have RECEIVED, that we might be blessed with MORE. If we want FOUR MORE YEARS of President Donald J. Trump, then – by all means – we must be THANKFUL for the FOUR GREAT YEARS that we have already had!“
With that, we all – quite spontaneously – smiled and held forth our clasped hands, earnestly in prayer, in our somewhat “diverse” faiths in God. I could feel the quiet spirit of true MAGA working among us, and with great confidence, we bowed our heads toward each other, and smiled in full faith. Thankful for the past. Confident in our future. Even our “dive-in diner” uttered a vocal prayer rarely heard.
Note that I did NOT say “we must vow to endeavor to persevere more years of THE BAD CHIEFS OF THE SWAMP.”
Rest assured, Pilgrims and Patriots. America – like God – is with us.
W
PS – There is a hidden joke in here which may not become apparent for a long time. If you figure all or part of it out, just smile! Thanks to Nor’easter for the inspiration of the “endeavor to persevere” theme!
This discussion is PRIMARILY for the GEEKS, but not exclusively. Non-geeks are welcome to comment, but I ask that you keep your comments 100% on topic – the features, functions, content and security of the new website. Our migration per se – not the long train of abuses which led to it.
This discussion will get long, and I don’t want to sort through ANY news about the election, The Steal, etc. Words of encouragement, prayer, blessing and spiritual protection are welcome, but keep them lean and mean.
This thread is 100% business.
If you’ve made prior comments on tech on other threads, that you feel are still relevant, feel free to REPOST THEM HERE. I don’t have time to do this myself.
NOW – down to business.
I have obviously rescinded my prior request that we not upload new header images – and as the first to violate that request, I invite other authors to follow suit.
Not only that, I am going to let authors begin following Flep’s latest posts, and just post all their images in the site media bucket. We have 50% left. I think that gives us plenty of time to move the site.
I REPEAT. Authors no longer need to store their images elsewhere. Use this site’s media bucket, as much as you want. This applies to ALL images – header and non-header.
I will reimpose the moratorium on new pictures when we do the final transition to the new site – not before then.
This process will be longer than expected, so I’m giving up on a SHARP transition, in favor of a SMOOTH transition.
The header image I have used on this post is a screen capture of the new site, which is actually functional right now. Here is a bigger picture of the home page.
Our new site is a WordPress site much like here, except none of YOU ALL are members yet, because I have not yet approved your first comments.
If you – as a currently approved commenter on this blog – want to spin the wheels, please feel free to visit, leave a comment, and let me approve it.
There are technical reasons why I’m limiting this to currently approved posters for the moment.
I am not guaranteeing that this test site will remain, but we will see. I am hoping that what I have there now is sufficient. Obviously I haven’t even modified the “Sample Page” stuff in the corner, but no biggie.
Don’t leave any “essential information of historical import” on the new site – it may not be saved. Better to leave it on THIS THREAD, which will be saved if at all possible.
Our current theme here is called Independent Publisher 2. I ended up using this theme for The U Tree, too, because it is a great theme and people HERE love it. Sadly, that theme was “deprecated” even back then, and now it appears to be GONE from what is available to me on our new host, which is very close to or exactly “latest version” WordPress.
Instead, the new site is currently using something called Draftly.
We will deal with THEME stuff later. Right now, we need to get MIGRATION and IMPORT to work.
It is important to understand that a WordPress administrator on WordPress.com is only an ADMIN inside the WordPress framework. On this site, I have NO POWERS outside the WordPress API. I can even delete the site, as part of the API, and I can create new sites, but I have no powers outside what WordPress.com allocates to me though THEIR IMPLEMENTATION of the WordPress software.
Now – that is still a LOT of power, but it gives me only one choice in terms of exporting the old website.
Exporting our site from WordPress.com creates XML files of data – in our case an astounding 1.5 GB of XML data, broken into 8 huge XML files, between 67 MB and 388 MB. All of this was received in a ZIP archive of about 167 MB.
Note that the unpacked XML data is about the same size as our media bucket – roughly 1.5 GB.
The exported XML files include a lot of private data from our users – they will not be shared. HOWEVER, the beginning of the first one is interesting:
I am still working on importing this data via the new WordPress API – which is not exactly as described in the XML above. Things are thus not working exactly as specified in the XML above. I will be more specific in comments below – it’s an active mess.
BUT – bottom line – we have a new site up, and it will be wickedly hard for us to be deplatformed from it. Our first boats are on the shore of the New World.
Prepare to defend “conspiracy theories” until the globo-nazis have no choice but to close this blog.
Because there’s nobody better at defending “conspiracy theories” to their proof than US.
When Sundance was kicked off WordPress, and more precisely WordPress.com – the .com part being a subtle distinction – I decided to leave WordPress, too, in some kind of “solidarity”.
We don’t actually HAVE to leave yet – we are not being threatened by the WordPress.com parent company, Automattik – or as I like to call them, AutomattiKKK.
Indeed, leaving at our convenience seemed like a bit of a blessing.
The trouble was, even though I had an excellent plan to leave and move to a censorship-proof home, I simply didn’t have the motivation I needed.
Ah, but Sidney Powell has solved this problem for me.
Sidney Powell is obviously going to cause the other side IMMENSE GRIEF. She is about to drop accusations which the other side will RIDICULE, MOCK and DENY, but which will SCARE THEM TO THEIR BONES.
The weaklings in the Establishment GOP are not up for this fight.
Indeed, I actually believe that the GOP are now WILTING in Georgia, scamming it for MONEY, but perfectly ready to give the Senate to the Demonic Democrats, should Trump manage to win.
What I’m seeing from the GOPe is a lot of FEAR-MONGERING FOR MONEY on Georgia. I’m not seeing people calling for KEMP’S HEAD. I’m not seeing anybody ready for a SHERMAN’S MARCH against Stacy Abrams, COMMUNIST RAT.
I’m seeing the same old same old – monetization of a crisis held in a balance.
And it gets WORSE.
Nobody wants to admit that our elections have been a FRAUD. Not just here, but across this PLANET.
Sidney’s gonna drop bombshells. I already believe her. Why? Because I have not told you stuff – damn near TREASON – that I witnessed during my decades in the shallow end of the swamp.
CHINA. NORMALIZED. CORRUPTION. AND. BETRAYAL.
They had a great, even scientific way of doing this, and it worked.
Communists corrupted America to jaw-dropping extents. On behalf of other interests, yes – and those interests need to pay for THEIR crimes, too. But it is SMART to understand who is who in the fight. We deal with both a corrupt opponent, and their SATANIC ringmaster.
Back to THIS fight.
Sidney is not going to get a break here. The WEAK and the SCARED are going to turn and run.
NOT ME.
The moneybags in the UNIPARTY are going to DENY, DENOUNCE, and DISPARAGE. The QUISLINGS and the COWARDS are going to run.
We’ve been in this fight before. We can win THIS ONE, TOO. But it’s going to be rough.
I am going to back this woman until the Three Gorges Dam of their LIES breaks, and the world is forever changed.
FAKE ELECTIONS are going to be a thing of the past.
As the 2020 Presidential Election falls into pieces, and the left in utter desperation tries to make us believe their SICK FRAUD – which is apparently the culmination of YEARS of sick frauds, they make some extremely cynical moves.
Sundance passes along the mealy-mouthed, PROGZI explanation…..
“Community Guardian”. What a SICK and COWARDLY joke.
Sundance also provides us their “reasons for deplatforming people” as follows:
This stuff is quite clearly weaponized for censorship of the right. LyingPress could kick any MAGA blog off their platform at any time, simply for disagreeing with the “party line”, or for publishing memes too sophisticated for the “Community Guardians” like Sal P. to understand.
In reality, they would understand, but would pretend not to understand.
And the reality beyond THAT ONE is that the leftists are not stupid – they’re malicious. They simply use pretending not to understand as cover.
Now, the rules here seem to only affect accounts with optional ad display, but I don’t think we should delude ourselves about any kind of immunity, or worse yet, quibble with power-holding baizuo from that position. Even our free blog with no ads, which we are currently running, has notices in the editor that ads may play at the end of an article, in spite of our “ad-free” status. Thus, we might be subject to these rules anyway, and I suspect that we are. Additionally, we cannot count on LyingPress to uphold the specifics of the rules, since it appears that Sundance had no recourse to change the nature of his blog to ad-free.
Just looking at the whole list of “prohibited content”, we should actually be GLAD to get off this platform! Some parts of it make sense, but a lot of it just looks like a way to hammer anyone they don’t like for the tiniest, most ridiculous “violation”. I say good riddance! But if I was to guess what finally caused them to come after the Treehouse… it would be this LIE:
“Proliferating or creating verifiably false claims or content that could undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process.”
To me, it’s very clear that LyingPress knows Sundance is influential, and needs to help protect their phony neo-Soviet “electoral or democratic processes” by prohibiting any thought they might be filled with cheating.
Sorry. LyingPress are now SOVIET SCUM, and we will be leaving them.
I cannot promise any time-frame for moving, but I already have a good idea about where we will go. I will begin researching immediately.
In order to have time to become an ACTUAL full-time administrator (and not just a member with an admin role and permissions on a canned site), I will need to relinquish both weekly authorship and frequent commenting on the site. Perhaps at some point, those can come back, but not right away.
If somebody is interested in doing the FRIDAY daily thread, please feel free to speak up. I will also FREE UP the current authors at this time to renegotiate their responsibilities, if they so desire, with me and each other. Please feel free to keep or change your current days for the daily threads. Talk among yourselves – I am fine with whatever you all decide.
