Recently, WordPress has got into this obnoxious habit of praising everything I do. 🙌👏🥳🤘
It reminds me an over-enthusiastic new parent that goes “Awwwww” over their child 👶🚼 as it burps and says goo-goo-gaa-gaa. Take a look at this screenshot of the recent praises I have received and tell me if I wasn’t better left alone.
Lately, it has been sending me congratulatory card every single day (today is the eleventh day) on my “Activity Streak”.
Once upon a time, when I was may be three, I would have died for that kind of attention. But now, it makes me want to stop acting on WP for 24 hours just to stop this nonsense–like a teenager failing class just to show its parents. 👿
I’m sure the people at WP mean well. I just wish they meant less well. 🥴
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The only one I get is the ‘You are on a posting streak!’ It told me I had posted 9 days in a row, when I had actually posted 30 days in a row, every day in June.
It’s a minor annoyance, but I just ignore it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I try to, Pete! It is just my pet peeve, I guess. As a child, I liked to be left alone and coddles only when I asked for it. 😁
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yes, I get this too: I suspect we all do; it is interesting though to see what we posted on this day 5 or 10 years ago —
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WP is trying to coddle us all 😁
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I was getting these as well as lots of other bloggers I know. Under your reader profile you can turn them off.
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Really? Thank you! I will do it.
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You’re welcome. 🙂
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Actually I just found out that it’s easier to do it under notifications. Three dots in upper right corner on notifications > site name > notifications tab > site achievements > toggle off.
I hope that helps.
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Just did it. Thank you! You are a life saver!
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Same
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It feels like we are back to bring toddlers 😄
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I presume it’s something to do with my settings; or maybe because I use the free package; but whatever, I’ve never seen anything like this from WordPress. I can see how annoying it would be, though. Cheers, Jon.
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You are lucky, Jon. I use a free package too.
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