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Note: The format of the Recap is in transition. I am no longer including the blogger location, since many people mistake that for the location of the Doors post. I am also no longer including Tags, since very few people use them. I have now added this years badge(s) (there was a tie) as a header to this page.

I am showing the active link to the blog post, the blog title and the tagline of the blog. I am trying to make the recap more accurate and more useful. Some of you have asked not to have any additional information included. I will do my best to comply with those request, but I am still cleaning up the data sheet that I use, so bear with me. Also, if anything is missing or if you make any changes, please let me know.

Blog LinkBloggerTagline
Doors Of WordPress V143 November Shadows 13WrookieschuLive life
Roberta Writes Dverse No More Freeloading Bird Of The Week And Thursday Doors With CffcRoberta Writes 
Thursday Door Challenge 62Meet Cute
Drama, Romance, History & Such
Doors Of A White VillageGeriatrix foto gallerie
…out of a digital shoebox
11 A Thursday DoorIt’s Still Life
Poetry, Photography, and A.I. artwork
Thursday Doors With A Shadow Or TwoStill Restlessjo
Roaming, at home and abroad
Shadow 10 Thursday Doors 13 Novemberbushboys world 
Thursday Doors MelrosePhotographias 
The Oldest Church In Western EuropeDont’ Hold Your Breath
A Charred Barn A Photographers ParadiseRitva Sillanmäki Photography
The world as I see it
Thursday Doors 13 November 2025 Marrakesh Doors SouksNatural adventuresby Scooj
Lost Now Found Haiku 2025 Thursday DoorsSuzetteB’s Blog
Inspiration and Spirituality
Thursday Doors 13 NovemberGfpacificbee’s Insights & photography
This blog is for my insights on life, the Bible, hiking adventures with my grandson and whatever is important to me
Thursday Doors november 13th
Cressida de Nova
 
Eastside And Westside DoorsSherry Felix – port4u
Artist, Photographer and Computer Tutor/Tech
The Shops At Columbus Circle Thursday Doorsmethodtwomadness
a blog of two friends
Thursday Doors The Kremlin50 Happens
Gen X Mom Keeps Calm & Carries On
More From Turtle In PortoMarian Allen, Author Lady
Fantasies, mysteries, comedies, recipes
Rolling In Red DoorsTHREW Mikes EyEz
Original Writings, Images, Video and Artworks of Mike Hartley
Wednesday Ponderating Thursdaydoors Elegance That WasTeagan’s Books
Serial stories, Novels, Designed & Ready Book Covers
Boat ShedMiddleton Road
How I see the world
The Chapel Of Saint Sulpice Villerest FranceThoughts of a Wanderer
“Not all who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien
Series Behind Closed Doors 11
Thru Violet’s Lentz
 
Friday Catch Up 14th November 2025Lins Arty Blobs 
S Osage Sedalia MissouriKaty Trail Creations
Creating Memories through Writing, Hobbies and Photos. And I play 5-string banjo.
Thursday doors #312View from the Back
Retiree ramblings
Thursday Doors1CountryTrek
Travelling is my joy of living. Sit back relax and come with me.
The Scottish RoomNo Facilities
Random thoughts, life lessons, hopes and dreams. Host of Thursday Doors

126 responses to “Thursday Doors – Weekly Recap”

  1. I like the idea! It promotes each other. That is always a good call.

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    1. Thanks Pam. That’s the idea.

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  2. Yes – a wonderful promotion tool and I can see uses. On the other hand, it’s a commitment and a time consumer to do. Sometimes I find that taking something new involves letting something go. Bottom line, it’s your call.

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    1. The time commitment is a big concern, Frank. I started this three times, but each effort required more time each week than I was prepared to give. I’m going to explain the details tomorrow in a post that I hope doesn’t bore you to death.

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  3. Seems like the photos of the doors themselves are the key here? You should be able to build a WordPress page which pulls all the posts with a tag (“doors”?) and displays exactly what you want from each.

    Well, that’s the techie answer, anyway.

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    1. Thanks Marc. I have thought of that, but, for the moment, I don’t have unlimited storage on this blog. Each image I bring in hits my storage. It’s not a huge cost to step up to unlimited (it is double what I’m paying) but there are other considerations. For that kind of investment, I could move to my own site – that’s more work but it offers more flexibility. What I really want to do is encourage people to visit the other sites. As I consider the options, I feel like I’m in one of those design meetings (with the various voices in my head).

      Pop in tomorrow as I explain the kludge of operations necessary to make this work as well as it does. That is much more the work in progress from the techie perspective.

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      1. Don’t you already have the images in each post?

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        1. The posts all include images, but they are in the blogger’s page. If I snag one here, even in a link, it gets stored in my storage. the same thing happens if I reblog a post. The images from that post are copied into my storage. All I have on my site on Thursday is my doors and a link to the other participants.

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    1. I believe the word you’re looking for is random. Although, not really. In fact, at present, they are ordered by the length of the pingback or the URL. I’m going to explain that tomorrow.

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  4. While I don’t actively participate in Thursday Doors, this seems like a great idea for those that do.
    👍

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  5. Any approach that’s best for you, is good by me. I often participate in Colleen Chesebro’s poetry prompts. You might look at how she manages it: Basically, when participants post their poem to their own website, they then add that link to Colleen’s website via a simple signup. Colleen doesn’t have to do anything with our links, though she visits each participant’s website. Good luck with this, Dan. 😊

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    1. Thanks Gwen. I appreciate the response and the link. As I recall, Norm began with a “linky” list, and several people were reluctant to sign-up. I also found this to be the case when I helped organize the Cherished Blogfest. I’m trying to get the benefits of a list like that, without asking people to sign up (I do have a Linky account) and without my having to go crazy.

      I’ve got this at a point that it’s easy for me. I hope to gather some feedback and see if I can make it more useful to the participants. If it works, I will see what I can do to improve it. I really appreciate your feedback.

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      1. Dan I don’t know if you noticed it but the link in Gwen’s comment does Not go to TankaTuesday!!!

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        1. I didn’t notice. I was on my phone and links never go where they should, so I don’t even try :(

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        2. OK, I looked and deleted the link. Thanks for that.

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          1. No worries. Cheers, Dan.

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  6. I think it is a great idea, although as others have said, a good bit of work on your part. As long as you have the bandwidth to do the work, it is a gracious and kind way to publicize on social media. I am interested in reading your post on the intricacies involved.

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    1. Thanks Maggie. Right now, I have a technical kludge, but I can prepare the list in about 10 minutes. I think I can make it even easier. I might be able to make it a little more informative, without much more work. I don’t mind doing the up front (one time) work, but I’m not interested in making this more this more than a 10-minute drill.

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  7. I like it because it pulls everything together in one place, and you don’t need to find pingbacks amongst all the comments on the original post. When somebody leaves both a pingback and a comment with a link, it can really make the comments section a very long list to scroll through. Some readers have told me that it can be rather overwhelming when seeing so many comments on a post. I’m not sure how many people would have enough time to scroll through all the comments, but I know that some people do if the post is about a subject they have a real interest in.
    Can I get one thing straight, though? Is this a page or a post? I only ask because I’m not sure how many people actually visit the pages of a blog. My ‘about me’ page is a page and gets lots of hits, but only because that page is also my blog’s home page. However, the rest of the pages on my blog don’t get anywhere near as many visits. Just a thought, Dan. I hope it helps.

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    1. Thanks Hugh, I really appreciate this feedback. This is a page, and I realize what you just said about pages. I was surprised that even though I published for the first time today, there was no notification sent out by WordPress. I think I will probably have a short post like I used today, just to push out a reminder. Regular readers can ignore it, there won’t be any pictures or other information.

      There were 126 comments on the last post. Far too many to ask people to scroll through. I added the jump to the comment form to let people comment without having to scroll down, but that also means they miss the other TD Posts. It’s a trade0ff between my followers and the participants, which is never easy.

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      1. I completely forgot that WordPress doesn’t send out notifications when a new page has been published, Dan. However, if you’re going to send out a short post with a link to the page, that should do the trick. I wish you well with however you decide to approach this. I’m sure you’ll eventually find the perfect balance between followers and participants. As somebody who blogs about a wide range of subjects, I’ve got used to which followers will comment on certain posts. And, of course, we should never take it that followers will read and comment on every post we publish.

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        1. All true, Hugh. Thanks again for the feedback.

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  8. Hi Dan, I think this is a great idea. I do try to read as many of the other posts as possible and it is much easier if the links are all together like this. You do need to send it out as a post though, or I will forget to look.

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    1. Thanks for adding that, Robbie. I think a simple “The Thursday Doors Recap is available” will work. People can ignore that just from the email. I don’t want to publish this as a post every week, because then I’ll be storing everything twice. This way, I can just delete and replace the table on that page.

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  9. I don’t know if this counts as I am a door reader, not a door poster, but I like this idea, Dan. To my way of thinking, a lot of bloggers post where their photos were taken, so I don’t understand wanting to know where they are from…? Most of the time, if you respond to a readers pingback, I will take a look. Having them all in one place, after I read all the comments will be pretty cool. But you will post this the next day–when everyone has sent in their door photos?

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    1. You absolutely count, Lois! Part of the reason I want to do this is that Thursday Doors runs from midnight Thursday to noon Saturday. Since I already have a regular Saturday post, people posting doors on Saturday are hard pressed to get seen on my blog.

      I would either publish a short notice that the page was updated on Saturday night or Sunday morning. Nothing else to see in that post, just enough to get the notice out.

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      1. This sounds like a great way that everyone’s doors can be seen. I like it.

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    2. Hi Iois, we have a lovely addition to doors if you’d like to check it out. 😄

      Thursday Doors: From the Islands to The Highlands of the World

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      1. Darn! You weren’t kidding! Many (many!) years ago I visited Greece and Yugoslavia (Dubrovnik) so loved seeing those doors. There is just something about the doors in Greece……Mama Mia! They are so lovely. Thanks for this grand tour–I enjoyed it!

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        1. Haha yeah, I couldn’t stop with these doors. I kept going and going…haha thanks Lois for your kind words.

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  10. Sounds like a good idea. I’m not a Thursday door participant but I think it wouldn’t nice to have a one-stop place to drop into to see what is going on.

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    1. Thanks John. It seems like a lot of people agree. I’m confident I can make this work.

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  11. I like it because it’s an easy way to access all the posts for that week, but I don’t want you to have to spend more time than necessary. You already visit all the posts and I know from personal experience how long just that and commenting take in addition to keeping up with other blogs that aren’t TD participants.

    janet

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    1. I have this down to a very small amount of time, Janet. I enjoy the doors posts, and the others that I follow. I limit my overall time (I do end up ignoring a bunch of posts every day) but I think we all do that.

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  12. Easy to read list. Fun to know who’s in each week. But lots of work for you. My fast 2¢ worth.

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    1. Thanks. I won’t do it if it’s a lot of work. Right now, it takes about 10 minutes, start to finish.

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  13. I like it! It can be a bit much to scroll through all the comments to find the links. This way, they are all in one place. And, I agree about turning off the comments. Norm would be so proud :)

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    1. That thought makes me happy, Janis.

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  14. This is a fantastic idea, Dan. Generous and selfless. Hats off.

    I skimmed through the comments. How about a combination between a linky party (for the bloggers prepared to sign in and save you the trouble) and for the remainder of the links you could post them like this? At least you won’t have to do the entire work, which it will be substantial).

    Also, keeping to text only is a good idea,blog storage wise, as you said.

    Thank you!

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    1. Thanks Pat. The linky think is one more thing I have to schedule, and then I’d have to combine the lists of people would have to look in two places. Now that this process is basically automated, it’s very little work for me. It takes 10 minutes a week. That’s not bad.

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      1. You have my support. I am sure that the result will be a pleasing surprise. :)

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  15. I like how accessible this layout feels. Tidy. It’s better than the linky tool which I always have to double squint to see. 🙂

    Pat

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    1. Thanks Pat. I appreciate that feedback I am going to try to keep it clean and simple.

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  16. Thanks Dan! You’ve (as always) put so much into a very helpful tool for keeping us connected and finding new blogging friends. I really love the idea and thanks for sharing on social media. I’m going to share this page on mine as well. 🙂

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  17. I loved this Dan. Just a few were in twice but I’m guessing maybe they linked and had a pingback. This was so great to be able to visit all of them whereas so often I get slowed down going through the comments. Thanks again! Great doors all around! 👏🏻👏🏻

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    1. I’m pretty sure I can get rid of the duplicates. I’m working first on extracting the titles for the posts where the authors don’t/can’t do a pingback.

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      1. I’m not sure if I can do a pingback or not Dan. How does that work?

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        1. If you are on WordPress.com with WordPress of a private domain, you just need to embed a link to my post (which I make available on Wednesday in my sidebar). If you self host or are on Blogger, the pingback won’t be displayed on my end.

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          1. I’ve just done that Dan. Does it show your end?

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            1. Yes it does – “Street Art by Dale Grimshaw (2) – ‘Free West Papua’ – TAB54”

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            2. Excellent!

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            3. Again, the link for the upcoming post is available under the Thursday Doors badge on my sidebar on Wednesday (most weeks). You can link it in to your post before mine is published, and it will appear.

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            4. OK Dan. Got it. Thanks😎

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  18. This is a great help, well done Dan for setting it up. Bravo!

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    1. Scooj from Natural Adventures by the way

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      1. Thanks, Scooj. WordPress is being cranky I guess. I’m glad you like this.

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  19. It works so that’s good. But how is it that you can capture the post title and author’s name only sometimes?
    The same question also for location.

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    1. I suppose some part of the answer is related to the fact that some links are duplicated

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      1. I have also been working to programmatically eliminate the duplicates. As you note, I have had limited success.

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    2. I get the title and the author when they use a pingback.

      If they don’t/can’t leave a pingback, I match them up with a table i’ve created so I can get the blogger name, but I can’t get the title.

      The table I have includes the location, but only if people have filled out the form I created (where they can enter that).

      I am trying to modify my program to get the post title, but that’s proving to be more difficult than I imagined. I think I will be able to do it, but it might be a while.

      I hope that helps.

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  20. Hi Dan! Do we do pingbacks for the Thursday Doors Challenge? I’m not sure where (or if) I should link back. I erroneously linked to Sheree’s blog. Oops!

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    1. Yes, you can do the pingback to this page (my entry for the week) or just leave the link in a comment. The pingback works better because it results in a more complete entry in the recap (on Sunday). The link for the pingback is available in the Thursday doors widget on my sidebar as of Wednesday.

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        1. I’m sorry. You can NOT do the pingback to the Recap page. They should go to my weekly post (published on Thursday) – That’s the link that will be in the sidebar, under the Thursday Doors badge.

          I didn’t look close enough to see where this comment was.

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          1. Thanks, Dan! I appreciate you taking the time to help me. 👍

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  21. Thank you for all your efforts, Dan. I’m just wondering why my URL is giving the (partial) title of my post and not the name of my blog (mexcessive.photo.blog). Do you think it’s better this way or is it automatic? You may also fix it to show Manja Mexi Mexcessive each week, would this be easy to do?

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    1. I think that “should” be an easy fix. I’ll see what I can do.

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      1. Did you try it and it didn’t work? Again, just a part of the title of my post is visible. The link works well, so it’s not a problem, but I see many others are listed with the name of their blogs, not the post titles. I’d prefer that too.

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        1. Oh, but my blog is included twice, so there’s that. ;)

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          1. I deleted the duplicate 🙁

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        2. I adde the rest of the title, but I had to do it manually. I was running late last night. I don’t know why I don’t get your complete ping back info when I do the extract. I will keep working on it.

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          1. Thank you, Dan. No worries. I thought it was something easy to do. The link works and that’s what’s important. No need to manually add stuff, you do so much as it is.

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            1. Oh, don’t worry. Several people link to the wrong page. I have to add them manually. Yours should work, but it just refuses to behave.

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  22. Hi there Dan! We are Marlena and Kurt. We would like to share our doors from all over the world : “From the Islands to the Highlands of the World”. We are looking forward to any Doorscusion. 😄

    Thursday Doors: From the Islands to The Highlands of the World

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    1. Thank you so much so much for sharing these. I added a link to this week’s post so your wonderful doors will be included in the recap on Sunday.

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  23. Thanks for including us, we are happy to talk about anything to do with traveling or the World. 🌎 😁 We love meeting new faces and new people!

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  24. Great Job, Dan. Thanks.

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  25. Some great doors in here, Dan. I especially liked Robbie’s wedding pics. Thanks for the round-up. :-)

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    1. The wedding doors and pictures were very special, Diana. I enjoyed seeing them very much.

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  26. Sorry to be so dense, but where do I go to sign the form and what do I do when I post photos if I can’t make a link?

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    1. The form is on WuFoo – https://dantion.wufoo.com/forms/q1s7fnxp0lq0agb/ – If you can’t do the ping back, simply copy the URL of your blog post and paste it into a comment here.

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  27. Okay found the form. So I can post a hyperlink to my post in your comments?

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  28. So is this the link I use each week to announce my post? https://nofacilities.com/category/thursday-doors/

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    1. No. The link changes each week. Each week’s entries are linked to my Thursday Doors post. That’s where people look for them and that’s where I grab the links for the recap. So, this week, you would add the link to a comment at https://nofacilities.com/2021/10/07/lake-superior-railroad-museum/

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      1. So, sorry to be so dense but how do I find the link each week? Do I go to your blog and and click on the Thursday Doors at the top?

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  29. I love this list, Dan. And I finally had time to go to all the links! 💃🏼👍🏻

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    1. This list worked well today, Cheryl. Lots of people got extra visits.

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  30. Thanks for this lovely tour, Miriam. Key West is a uniquely wonderful place. I went there once back in the bad old days, even did the “Duval (Street) crawl” as they called it back then. I wasn’t familiar with Trueman’s Little White House though — a cool point of historic interest. There is a place in Warm Springs, Georgia that is also called the Little White House, because of FDR. I visited there as a child. I don’t remember much but even as a kid admitted it was interesting. Hugs on the wing.

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  31. I like the idea of the tags for a few more details to help decide which ones to visit (and I now there are times when we can visit all or many, but for the times we can only visit a few – this is one more way to help us decide.
    – I just enjoyed the gate at Versailles and will now check out some more….
    hope you have a great rest of the weekend and be ack to join in Thursday doors soon :)

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    1. Thanks for this comment, Yvette. I always enjoy your doors posts, but I’m happy to know that you like the tags. I think they will help.

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  32. My tags are not included again. I know, you must enter them manually. :p If it presents extra work, no need.

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    1. I looked for the tags in you comment but I couldn’t find them. I don’t mind copying them, it’s incredibly easy, but I did not see them. They won’t work from a pingback, they have to be added to the url in a comment. Two weeks ago, I found them.

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      1. I can’t swear but I’m pretty sure I added them to my URL in the comment before hitting “Post”. They were: #Slovenia#Ljubljana#VurnikHouse.

        I believe. I may have forgotten to do that too. :D

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  33. What a wonderful community you have going here, Dan. Good for you!! Sorry to hear the WP problems are plaguing you too. I’ve given up on them ever getting it right.

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    1. It’s frustrating, Amy. These are things (ping backs, alerts, etc) they have been around forever.

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  34. If you want to add my location – Grafton NSW Australia and Teresa (My Camera and I) is in Melbourne Australia

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    1. I just did your form as well :)

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    2. I did find your info, and I have added it. It should show up every week going forward. Ironically, it was your entry that helped me realize the lookup process wasn’t working correctly. Thanks!

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  35. Finally I have time to visit all the doors on your contributors’ blogs. There is such diversity and international presence! I love it. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️

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  36. A phenomenal amount of work here, Dan! I don’t know how you keep up. I’m a total wimp by comparison. Thanks so much for the inclusion. I’ve visited quite a few, met some great people and reconnected with a few former friends so I appreciate your trouble, but even just doing that you can lose a morning. Got to go and put the washing out. Have a lovely Sunday!

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    1. Thanks Jo. This week’s recap was hard to do, but that’s because the software scripts I use didn’t work. I’ll fix it before next week. That makes preparing this recap about a 15-20 minute drill.

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  37. Looking forward to browsing through the recap later. Thanks!

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  38. I like this idea. You know I love doors though I do t participate in Weekly doors. I need to get out and do some photos!

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    1. You can always submit a poem about doors. We keep a very wide definition as to what constitutes a “doors” post. We’ve had artwork many times.

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      1. That’s an excellent suggestion, of course one never knows what my doors may open to. Giving it sincere thought. Thank you Dan.

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        1. We do have several poets that join us each week, working around a door photo, but there’s no requirement that a photo be included.

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          1. Well, it sounds like great fun. 🤔

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  39. Where I live there is a church with the same architectural style as the Catholic church in your post. I must admit, I am glad that style is no longer popular 🤣 I guess maybe it let a lot of light in??

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    1. I guess, but I’m not a fan.

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  40. Many thanks for the inclusion, Dan. Enjoy your week!

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    1. You’re welcome, Jo.

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      1. I think I put this in the wrong place but I knew you wouldn’t mind. Have a good week, Dan xx

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  41. I really like and appreciate the Sunday Thursday Doors recap. I like having all the door post’s links in one place. It makes my Sunday scroll through the list visiting them all super easy.

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    1. Thank you for that, Deborah. I always wonder if people like it. I’m glad you do.

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