Tag: The Q Tree

Wolf’s Phony AMA (Ask Me Anything) Which is More Like an SLHO (Super-Limited Hang-Out) But is Actually a Front for an RFC (Request For Comments) Which is Really Both an FFM (Fact-Finding Mission) and a PUHD (Pop-Up Help Desk)

YEAH. You have problems with this wonderful new site. We know that. But you are hesitant to bug THE WOLF any more than you already have.

We respect that. But we need you to tell us what is happening and why, because if we don’t, THIS WONDERFUL SITE may end up being destroyed by WordPress. Errrr – I mean WordPress.com.

Speaking of which, how many people here have been LOCKED OUT for “commenting too fast”?

Yeah. That was a beauty.

Thank you, all who reported that. Please SPEAK UP here and REMIND US if you got that red-box warning – I want to DOCUMENT IT HERE.

OK? Please let me know if you got that pop-up, and particularly if it kept you from commenting.

I want to hear it AGAIN. Right here.

I AM COLLECTING EVIDENCE.

You see, my definition of site security is less about who is watching us or how they are watching us, and more about ARE THEY TAMPERING WITH OUR GOOD THING?

SOCIAL HACKING is what I’m most concerned about.

WordPress.com – which kicked Sundance and CTH off its platform for political reasons, is not as big of a social hacker as Twitter and Facebook, but thanks to their AXEY-METH (Akismet) POST-RANSOM CRIMEWARE / MAFIA-PROTECTION RACKET MALWARE, they are close to it. The WordPress scam works a bit differently from the Twitter scam, but it works.

By my being the ONLY administrator / moderator on this site, and having (at present) ZERO moderation filters other than “PRIVATE_MESSAGE_TO_WLOF” (spelled correctly), I can “see through” all the games and all the con jobs that are foisted on honest patriots by the outside world, OR by the platform itself.

Anyway, a bit more about the “red box scam”. The pop-ups telling people they were posting too fast, and then BLOCKING them from commenting.

This was due to a setting in WordPress, as part of WordPress.com’s “JetPack” plugin, which supposedly prevents brute force attacks on the site. I want to thank grandmaintexas and her DH for helping me out there, with the critical insight that this censorship problem actually stemmed from that very particular setting.

Turning it off – BOOM – problem GONE.

Now – I’m not going to show WordPress.com all my cards here, but trust me – that setting did not initially block people from posting. The censorship SNUCK IN LATER. It was also very specific WHO it went after. I do not believe that it was accidental, either. I believe the targets were INTENTIONAL. But even if I’m wrong about that, it’s a lot like the China Virus. WordPress – and specifically JET PACK – is responsible.

Now bear in mind – JetPack is also responsible for the “bar-bell” notifications. That is primarily WHY we have JetPack installed as a plugin.

I want to ask people here – do you TRUST the notification system? The “black bar, white bell, and orange dot”. Do you trust that it always reports everything to you faithfully and without any kind of bias?

I may or may not be suspicious of JetPack’s notification behavior at this very moment, but it is my job, being in charge of security, to trust it exactly NEVER. I am faithful NOT to the software, nor even to its possibly long and glorious history, but rather to its INTEGRITY OF FUNCTION AT THIS MOMENT – an ephemerally correct thing which may or may not be true, but can never be assumed.

I am faithful to PRINCIPLES and to those who – like me – strive to UPHOLD THEM.

More about trust.

I most assuredly DO NOT TRUST WordPress.com not to #### with us again, via JetPack and WordPress.com authentication (meaning when you log in using your WordPress password and identity).

I want to IMPART THIS SUSPICION on all who enter here. I want you ALL to be my EYES AND EARS – so that not IF but WHEN WordPress.com decides to mess with us again, ALL OF YOU will be prepared. We almost lost some of your BEST FRIENDS HERE to the last scam.

So LOOK SHARP.

And NOW go ahead. Ask me anything!

W

Video Overload! Let’s Celebrate and Test Out the New Embed Plugin

(With a Massive Assault of Videos, Tweets, and Everything Else We Can Throw at the Software!)

Will it do Gab?

https://gab.com/markzilla/posts/105239317742587904

Almost!

Will it do a Gab video?

Well, let’s see if that shows up!

What do you think?

I have a great story related to this song, but not now. Some other time!

But if you’re looking for some romance now, how about…..

Or how about some SCIENCE FICTION NOT FICTION?

https://www.bitchute.com/video/PBtAd9MZZgIJ/

Doesn’t work here – try it in a comment!

Will it embed a WordPress post in WordPress?

Dear KMAG: 20201207 Open Topic

WOO-HOO!

Will it embed a site within a site post?

https://wqth.wordpress.com

Nope! Just a link.

How about Vimeo? They’re getting weird and insular, but I found this:

Note that BitChute is being deplatformed!

“BitChute needs your help! We have been deplatformed by service providers and we are in the process of moving providers. If you experience an issue this is likely the cause. Please consider helping at this critical time.“

Another BitChute video about YouTube:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/tBxHOLaMsm0/

Well, try it in a comment!

I direct you to the list of possibles:

Description

wpDiscuz Embeds supports lots of content providers. Video, audio, photos, products, and more—embed the content your users crave.

Video Embed

Embed full videos anywhere. Let your users on your discussion area watch content from dozens of video providers. Video providers include: Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Rutube, Vevo, Vesti, Metacafe, Liveleak, Funnyordie, Dotsub, Scribd, Citytv, Snotr, Wat, Novamov, Youku, Putlocker, Veoh, Zappinternet, Dalealplay, Zkouknito, Allocine, Break, Vzaar, 4shared, Movshare, Shiatv, etc…

Image Embed

A picture is worth a thousand words. Don’t just tell users what you are talking about; show them. Image providers include: Flickr, Instagram, GettyImages, Mobypicture, ymlyFrog, etc…

Audios, Social Networks and others

SoundCloud, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress.com, Reddit, PollDaddy, etc…

So give some a try, and let’s see if they really work.

Cheers!

W

OUR FIRST VIDEO!

Welcome to TheQTree.com Techmania Stand-Up

As much as I utterly DESPISE “process over people”, I always found MEETINGS OF ACTUAL GEEKS WITH MINIMAL MANAGEMENT useful when there were too many people to look over one person’s shoulder comfortably in a GEEK CUBICLE. So – “declared meetings” have their uses. Here, if only to consolidate suggestions so I can find them later.

My mission in moving us to a WOKE-FREE SITE was so I could quickly get back to WAR in the immediate future. That is where my next posts will be going – back to POLITICS and away from I.T.

*** WAR ***

However, right now, we do have a lot of good geeky thoughts flying around. I want to capture them, even if I am going to INFO-GUNS right away (because THE BUSINESS is ultimately WHY WE ARE HERE).

Thoughts can go here. Including:

  • whether we want to STICK WITH THE NEW COMMENTING SYSTEM
  • whether I should get the tweet and video plugin extensions NOW (answer to above being YES)
  • features that we absolutely need NOW to FIGHT
  • features we need to add – but which will probably be LATER
  • tips and tricks for others to get online and FIGHTING
  • anything GEEKY

OK? GOOD! Have at it! Just remember – we FIGHT FIRST and repair the broken weapons LATER, when there is a break in the fighting.

So we STAND NOW!

W

Actors Henry Fonda and James Coburn on the set of Universal Studios movie ” Midway” in 1976. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

The Q Tree Member Roundup! Calling All Q-Treepers!

THE Q TREE CALLS ALL ITS TRUTH WARRIORS TO COME HOME AND ASSEMBLE FOR BATTLE!

Come inside!

Relax! Have a seat!

Or sit out on the deck!

Please check in and let your friends know that you FOUND our new home. Lurkers, former members, old friends from CTH, and everybody else – you are welcome to make that first post right here! Introduce yourselves!

W

We just ask that you BE-HAVE!!!

We’ve MOVED to TheQTree.com!

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:

https://theqtree.com

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.

Right now, I need some sleep!

Thank you for your patience!

W

Welcome to TheQTree.com

Welcome, all Patriots and other loyal friends and supporters of American Independence!

This is the new site (theqtree.com). We HAVE moved here permanently and completely. This is our new home.

Bookmark it!

https://theqtree.com

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
  • REGISTER on this site here: https://www.theqtree.com/wp-login.php?action=register
    • Use your WordPress username
    • Use your WordPress email
    • If you are already registered, LOG IN instead
  • Your confirmation email may be in SPAM or JUNK – be careful.
  • LOG IN on this site here: https://www.theqtree.com/wp-login.php?action=login
    • 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!

New Site Status Report 20201201

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.

https://wpdiscuz.com/

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.

https://wordpress.com/comments/all/www.theqtree.com

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.

https://wpforo.com/

This is open source software, and is featured on WordPress-dot-org, too.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/

There is even a forum USING the software, for discussion OF the software!

https://wpforo.com/community/

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)

Author Testing on New Site

We will discuss here.

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..

THANKS!!!

W

A Technical Discussion of Our New Website

OK – gather round.

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.

The new site is:

https://theqtree.com

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.

Say a prayer of thanks!

W

My Plan To Get Us Kicked Off Of WordPress

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.

And we are going to be KICKED OFF WORDPRESS.

I hope you will join me.

W

You can donate to Sidney Powell HERE:

https://www.DefendingTheRepublic.org

Some of your fellow patriots are already stepping up.