Me, this afternoon…
“I'm going to work on an N8N workflow for my blog so that whenever I post something, it'll update Facebook, Instagram, and all those other places. I have that Make.com scenario working to do this, but meh. I really want to figure this out in N8N. Then I can use it for the Future Fiction Academy website too. It can't be that hard! I'm a smart woman. I've got this. Let's do it!”
You can already see where this is going…
“Okay, supposedly in order to get this WordPress credential set-up, I need to turn on Application passwords in my WordPress. Oh, Wordfence says that's a no-go. I need to turn that off. Okay, I've turned that off, got an Application Password. Let's go!”
Adds password to N8N and hits ‘Connect.' Nope.
“Well, shit. N8N is returning an error. I don't get it. Rest API is working. This might have something to do with me turning off my XML-RPC a while back due to spammers. Yep, that must be it.”
Returns to website…
“Huh. Why aren't comments working? How did this happen? What's wrong with Disqus? It's showing as disconnected. Let's reconnect it, then? Great.” grumble grumble. “Nothing I'm doing is making Disqus work. I've updated the API keys, Rest API is working. Wait. That endpoint isn't working.”
I do a bunch of google searches…
“Maybe this is all because I turned on Application Passwords back 10 steps ago. I'll go turn that back off and see if it helps.”
It does not.
“Sigh. I've wasted all my precious time on this. I'm not going to figure this out anytime soon. Hey, how about I just turn off Disqus and use the native commenting system? Oh wait. I don't have all the comments from the last several years synched? Let's do that first.”
Bombs my website. Has to reboot Apache.
“For fucks' sake. Okay, forget about bringing over the comments. Just… whatever. I don't need them and I can go get them later.” turns off Disqus. “Why isn't the comment form showing up?”
Spends 30 minutes looking at posts, pages, turning on comments, turning them off, troubleshooting the website…
“It's my theme. My theme is hiding comments now.”
Goes through every option in my theme to figure out if they got turned off. Nope. Comments SHOULD be on.
“Comments are not on. And what was I supposed to be doing? Yeah. Working.”
I GIVE UP.
Maybe someday I'll want to figure this out. Or maybe someday they will magically come back. I don't know. I don't care right now.
… and everyone wonders why I'm so stressed out. Because this shit happens almost every day.
I'd ask for you to comment and let me know about your stress reduction techniques BUT I CANNOT BECAUSE SOMEONE (ME) FUCKED UP THE COMMENTS ON MY SITE.
As you were.
