Hello Geoff-n-Jane
I know what you are talking about...I think you will find that you are accidentally knocking the mouse pad with your wrist as you type. For that reason, I rarely use a laptop mouse pad as they often do this weird jumping thingy. I always use an external mouse. As for the disappearing text...? Can't help you with that, but it might be related to your mouse problem.
How's it going? Are you still travelling around Australia? Just a thought - if you are typing while you are travelling (which I do a lot!) then your jumping could also be related to that.
Cheers
Elsie

I am also on PC. The jumping does happen occasionally and I know I am not touching the mouse at the time it happens. My comment replies don't disappear though. I will now scan below and see if anyone has answered this question.

Everything has been good so far.

Geoff-n-Jane, Sorry you are having issues. I have no clue to offer, not even a crumb of advice. Just a hearty thank you for writing about an issue I have, and had no clue what was causing it. The helpful suggestions here are so appreciated!
Thank you,
Sami

Nope, I wrote few blogs every day, everything was fine. Maybe I need to knock on wood?

i`ve had posts dissapear and i could not explain it try writing in word then pasting and you should not have tis problem

I have had that with a desktop and normal mouse.
And if you delete a sentence and hit enter after you type next one it puts that sentence back in..
Weird stuff. Not all time though. In fact it has been a couple of weeks for me. It is random.
I also get same stuff you described.
Totally random again as well.

Hello Geoff-n-Jane,
I had the same problem with my laptop. It was pointed out to me that I was probably was inadvertently touching the mouse pad. I stuck a post it note over it and the problem went away. Hope this helps. Vincent

Greetings Geoff-n-Jane!

I'm using a desktop (no mouse pad), and have a jumpy cursor as well - but no disappearing text.

My flavor of jumpy cursor is this: occasionally as I'm typing, the cursor will jump from where I'm composing to the top. It never jumps to any other location - always to the first position of the first sentence. This will typically happen half a dozen times a day.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Dennis

I used to use a laptop and experienced what you're describing constantly. It turned out that while I was typing I was inadvertently knocking the mouse pad with my palm. So it was selecting text and deleting it, or repositioning the cursor.

In the end it wound me up so much that I started using an external mouse & deactivated the mouse pad.

Now I'm not saying this is definitely the cause of your issue, but it is worth looking into. Especially as it is happening on two different laptops for you.

I enjoyed the new posting- but could not leave a note- kept getting the message that the captcha was not a readable file I do not think many will keep working with this as I did, but, do not know why I could not comment

I left a comment. I also took a look at the history page. A quick question is did you want the dog photos to show when the page is open. I had to click on the link (and that may be what you wanted).

I tried to leave you a comment but kept getting that the captcha was unreadable then when I tried to refresh and redo, I was told I had already said that, so I think maybe you received the comment! You will just have to let me know! :)
When I go to a website and find such well presented and engaging information I usually tour more of the site!

I generally land on a page, read and comment. Sometimes when there isn't a whole lot to comment on, I check out other pages. I look for an about me page and check into several headings and articles to add further feedback about the content.

If I notice that there are no comments on a blog post I will try to comments there if I don't have enough to say on my original landing page.

What frustrates me is landing on a page that has nothing but a home page, no comment section, and no blog roll because it forces me to go in search of a post to comment on

We all know how much time it can take to read the blogs of others and leave 3 comments (quite often I leave a great deal more than 3 comments after and as I ask for one, and landing on a page like that just takes extra time.
~D

left a comment on your post it was really nice surfed a bit really like the way you have your pictures set out it was really good information for any dog owner especially if they are a new owner and this is the first dog. Job well done
Willie

That had some surprises I was unaware of. Great post again.
My first visit to a site most the time I take a tour checking it out to give comments back here.
Revisits most of the time in, read post and leave a comment then back here.

Always positive comments on the site. The good, bad and ugly here where it has no impact on there site but they can fix or adjust anything on there site they want to consider from what I may have written.

Again great post left you a comment and I also look for leaving comments on posts that need them most if one has not been selected.

Geoff & Jane- Left a comment on your site very good article full of things I did not know. In answer to your question I spent most of the time on your site on foods dog should not eat but checked out your picture gallery also. I for one usually find several things that catch my eye when I visit a site.

If you have an extra minute you might check out this silly idea I had and leave a comment on my site. http://buildafreebusinesswebsite.com/one-question-survey-that-could-help-us-all

Hi Geoff and Jane, surfed around a bit, love the gallery, left a (not quite nice, but those things also happen) comment

I do believe that I do what I love and help. I take a look and if I don’t connect in 30 seconds, I quit and leave this food for other hungry folks.

I also believe that adding my comments coming from the heart helps. Hence I don’t spend much time analysing this, as long as I am doing my Karma of contributions. That way I am not burdened and I keep doing the stuff on daily basis.

Well that is me, and I know there is a you, different from me and that is how we are :-)

Good luck to you both!

Been there done that - do I get a T-shirt? ~Marion

As always the amount of help and support is so surprising

Hopefully you will find the problem on the theme you are using. If it were me, I wouldn't spend a lot of time fighting it. I would change themes. Good luck you two.

Have you added the posts to the specific category you want it to appear in?

Hi Geoff & Jane (and Bubbygirl),

A couple of thoughts - take them for what they're worth. Somehow the word category/ snuck into the post URL in the menu. If you click on the link now, you'll get a 404 (as you noted). Go up to the URL bar and remove "category/" from the URL, and hit enter - and the post will load.

Try going to Appearance > Menus in the left sidebar of the admin area, and in the Menu Structure area, click the down arrow next to one of the errant 404 'sub categories'. Click Remove from the lower left corner of the dropdown. It won't remove the post, just the menu item. Repeat for each of the problem menu items, then scroll down and click on Save Menu.

Next, go to the section immediately to the left, where check boxes show pages & posts to add to the menu. Tick those that you intend to re-add, and click Add to Menu.

Over in the Menu Structure area again, click on the new posts you just added, and drag them into position under the Health tab. Make sure they are indented just a little under Health, so they show up as sub items on the menu.

Be sure to scroll down and click Save Menu again. Your links should be operational now.

The second thought is to click on the down arrow next to top tier post / page names, and shorten them where you can.

For example, "TEACUP AND NORMAL SIZED CHIHUAHUAS" could just be "SIZES", and "BUBBYGIRL’S PICTURE GALLERY" could be just "BUBBYGIRL'S GALLERY". In that way your menu would remain a single line on smaller width browsers.

Best of luck with it!

Dennis

G-N-J I looked at your site and it does say nothing found. You might check and make sure you have published the sub category articles and they are not still a draft. Another thing is they could be tagged as private this would cause them to not show up also. Let me know if either of these suggestions work.

Hey you two,
I dont know much about sub categories (yet), but I seem to recall I got the same message on my site before I posted my first blog.
Have a great evening down under.
-Theuns

I think it says that until you add content all you did is set the menu now add some content and you should be good to go