Do you ever wonder what is going on with your blogs when strange things happen? I certainly do and sometimes I am just left shaking my head as there seems to be no rational explanation.

My most popular post so far is The Blank Configure Feed Problem because a lot of bloggers are experiencing the same problem as I did. Then I started getting comments that the Recent Comments widget was not working. So I looked at the post and it was a mess.

I still have no idea what happened but somehow all of the formatting had been changed. The paragraph tags had all been replaced by either <br> (line break) or <div> (division) tags and all of the <span> tags had also disappeared together with any highlighting.

Strangest of all the URL for comment feeds had also changed back to what was my original typing error. When I first wrote the post I used the lazy way and copied and pasted the post feed URL then added comments to it and forgot to delete the posts part so it ended up as the incorrect:

http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/comments/default

instead of:

http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

But I corrected that quickly after I saw the post. So how did it end up being restored to the incorrect version and how did the post lose all its formatting?

I have no idea. All I do know is that it took a lot of time to go back through the HTML and restore the correct formatting. What I do know is that I apologise to anyone who tried to get their Recent Comments working and could not. It will work now.

Another post also had strange things happen. As I checked through I found that most of the second paragraph of Removing the Count from Blogger Categories and Archives had become a third paragraph in which it was repeated three times. That was easier to fix but just as strange to explain.

Today I find that two posts are having problems with scripts which, according to the warning message which pops up every time the load seems to freeze for a short time, is because a script may be busy or may be unresponsive.

The problem there is that there are no scripts in the posts. The only scripts are those in the template and they are the same for every page of the blog.

The first post to show this message is How to Replace Missing Quick Edit Links. I tried deleting the original post and republishing it on a later date but it has not cured it. It also happens with Adding Meta Description and Keyword Tags to Your Template. Again there are no scripts in the post.

I have no idea why it happens. all I know is that if I click on “Stop Scripts” when the warning pops up everything is fine and then it displays just as perfectly as all the other posts.

Does anyone else have these weird problems or have any idea what causes them?

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