Hey, folks, there’s a new WordPress feature in your settings. Under Dashboard > Settings > Media > Image Gallery Carousel. You can have your photo/image galleries display in a mosaic format. Check it out in my post Peak-to-Peak leaf peeping, for example, to see what it looks like. I rarely have a pile of photos to make … Continue reading WordPress adds ‘mosaic’ option to image galleries
I read somewhere yesterday a calculation that only about 1.6% of all WordPress blogs get Freshly Pressed in any given year. That’s out of, according to this screenshot, 426,589 blogs. It’s a wonder I came across the story at all considering the traffic and email Pied Type’s “fresh pressing” has brought me. Stunning, to say the … Continue reading Freshly Pressed: You always remember your first time
Just found this email from the WordPress folks in my inbox: Congrats! We’ve picked your post ( http://piedtype.com/2012/08/11/grandma-gets-a-smartphone/ ) to appear on Freshly Pressed on the WordPress home page. We really enjoyed your take on this smartphone buying experience — a mix of practical information but also some lightheartedness and humor, and we know the rest of … Continue reading Pied Type to appear on Freshly Pressed
Actually, despite the title, I don’t exactly have my new phone in hand yet. In theory I should have it, but there have been a few stumbling blocks along the way. First there were about two days of intensive web surfing and browsing, trying to make sense of all the calling plans offered by the … Continue reading Grandma gets a smartphone
Note the ugly truncated titles in my “Current Bestsellers” widget. It wasn’t that way yesterday, and I didn’t do anything to change it. WordPress did it, of course. They’ve changed the Top Posts & Pages widget to enable the addition of images. Another “improvement” for us that WordPress was neither proud enough of nor considerate … Continue reading WordPress strikes again
It was reported an hour ago in the WordPress forums that the Adblock problem I wrote about in “Has WordPress been tinkering again?” has been fixed. And having just re-enabled Adblock, I can say the problem does indeed appear to have been fixed. Continue reading WordPress/Adblock problem fixed
