Infinite scrolling

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  doppelgangershow · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 3:00 am

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  I have infinite scrolling disabled and have a page layout, yet infinite scroll is back. Why is this? And how can I fix this?
  Blog url: http://doppelgangershow.wordpress.com/

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  feartheseeds · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 5:08 am

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  There are many who feel your pain… you’re using the 2010 theme, so if you don’t like the infinite scroll just put some widgets into your footer widget areas. It can be anything, the admin widget, a photo, a copyright notice, some links, an RSS feed… as long as you have footer widgets you’ll be okay.

  To Infinity and Beyond

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 6:01 am

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  Actually you don’t have IS on your blog – the “Load More” is to load more Posts – IS is when the Posts are loaded without you doing anything but page down – yes I know nit picking

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  feartheseeds · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 6:22 am

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  …thought I checked for that. I’m sure when I loaded their blog the bottom dropped out when I scrolled down. Must have been the Mountain Dew.

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  doppelgangershow · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 3:39 pm

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  Feartheseeds: I had already done that previously and they changed it on me just the other day. It was odd.

  As well, I used to have a page format – y’know, to see older posts you would have to press… “older posts” and it would bring you to a new page, rather than the IS format it changed too.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 3:44 pm

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  @doppelgangershow
  They began implementing infinite scroll in February. Have you read this belated announcement?

  re: load more posts
  We’ve also automatically enabled the click-to-load button for blogs where there might be important information in footer widgets, so your visitors always have access to the entirety of your content. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/to-infinity-and-beyond/

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  doppelgangershow · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 6:06 pm

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  @timethief: I had read the announcement after I couldn’t disable it the first time. I just don’t understand the change from a page layout to this scrolling option all of a sudden. Is there no fix for it?

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  timethief · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 6:09 pm

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  You can disable infinite scroll but if you do then you get the “[load more posts]” and that cannot be removed.

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  doppelgangershow · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 6:16 pm

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  Well that’s extremely disappointing to hear.

  Oh well. Thank you for your help (everyone really!)

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  timethief · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 6:30 pm

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  You’re welcome.

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  justpi · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 7:08 pm

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  Note: it can be removed if you buy the Custom Design upgrade.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 7:12 pm

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  Does removing [load more posts] also prevent the ugly pop-up that appears in the footer when infinite scroll is disabled?

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  justpi · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 7:18 pm

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  What’s that “ugly pop-up”?

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  houstonweaver · Member · Jun 14, 2012 at 9:40 pm

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  I found that taking a link from one of those scrolled to posts works fine but then your back button does not return you to the place where you left. So it leaves you lost in the sroll world and most users will not be engaged enough to try to find out where they left off.