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I’m Back and This Should be a Public Site Now!

Hi Everyone!

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks and if you have had problems logging into my site, I humbly apologize!

You see, the other week I received a note on my Paypal saying I owed $500+ to renew my site here on WordPress for two years. Now it’s a bit confusing, but I thought I had renewed my account here several months ago, but that was just for the domain name. The reason I had this enormous bill was because two years ago I had upgraded my trekkerscrapbook.com site to a commercial site so I could include a “Buy Me a Coffee” link that my readers could click on if they wanted to send a donation of support to the site.

Long story short, I got a hold of WordPress in a panic, letting them know that there was no way I could afford the commercial billing now. The associate was delightfully friendly, patient, and understanding of my dilemma. She let me know that, yes, I would be refunded the big amount and instead my site would go back to looking like it did two years ago, and it would only charge me $48 a year.

Whew!

Although I was relieved to be refunded my original amount, I noticed that I had to log back in to get back to doing all the stuff I do here. Fine! I’ll just look up my password…

Could not find my my password list!!! Fortunately I just found it today and here I am. HOWEVER, as well as my site being returned to its previous format (Coraline) it had also be changed to a ‘Private’ site, which is why some of you may not have been able to have access. Well, I just fixed that, and you should all have no problem seeing my site now. So sorry for the mess, and thanks again for your patronage.

And as to the donate button, I’d like to thank the two of you who donated! I did have a nice cup of tea! Greatly appreciated!

And now back to your regularly scheduled trekkerscrapbook.com. My next post will appear soon about my wonderful visit to Albany last month to see Adam Nimoy!

Love to you all, Therese 🙂

If this page looks goofy… any suggestions?

Hi Everyone,

If this page looks a bit goofy to you, I understand. I’ve been trying to upgrade it with a “Buy Me A Coffee” button so I can accept little donations to help me pay for this site. I upgraded my membership with WordPress (a whopping $300+ for two years) so I could install the ‘coffee’ widget button However at present I haven’t figured out how to have the button actually appear on the page!

As you can see, all the ‘widgits’ that usually appear on either sides of the central column of text here have now all been shoved to the side, and I haven’t figured out yet how to put them back. It also changed the background color to the new articles to yellow instead of deep purple. (Huh?) All I wanted to do was to add the button at the top of the page, but when I added it, it only gives me a link (that I can only see here in my editing section) to a separate page which seems to to be starting a whole new blog page! –Not what I had in mind.

I am now wondering if I should just transfer this 10 years of posting to the new page or what? I don’t really want to change what I had here originally.

My two computer-whiz sons will be helping me with this. But if any of you have blogs here on WordPress could you send me any suggestions? Help!

In the meantime, I am writing bits that I will post them here soon, and I appreciate your patience!

Hope you’re staying well and having a lovely holiday season! I will have more posts up before Christmas! -Therese ❤

2012 in review

WordPress sent me my annual stats for Trekker Scrapbook — congrats to winston for being my most vocal subscriber!  The rest of you got to catch up! I’d love to hear from you!  Happy New Year, and may your all your Treks be happy ones!

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 39,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 9 Film Festivals

Click here to see the complete report.