artsnova

This cause me much grief as well. Made a change to style.css for the first time since migrating to 2.7 and the whole thing went kablooey.

Changed theme and went back to default, which I had made numerous mods to. Only problem was it refused to load my banner image on the actual web page – had to remod the css to get it working again.

Hi hotkee,

I’m referring to the dialog associated with the “Add an Image” icon. Once I’ve uploaded an image all the options available in the dialog work except for the size options. The Thumbnail, Medium, and Large options are all grayed out and are not selectable. Full size is chosen by default.

Once I’m back in the visual editor I can click on the image and use the edit image option to resize the image to some fraction of its original size. I don’t really have a use for that capability though.

Hopefully someone has experienced the problem I’m having and knows what fix is needed to get the Thumbnail, Medium, and Large options enabled.

Hi,

I started another thread on this same issue yesterday. However, for me it is not associated with an upgrade to 2.7 but a new install. No size option – other than full size – available for any image that I upload.

All other options work fine and I can use the image edit mode to “resize” the image.

I would like to point out that this problem is with version 2.7. Evidently this was a problem with earlier versions but was stated to have been fixed with version 2.6.1.

Any pointers as to why the size options don’t work would be most helpful.

Hello Hotkee,

And one atta boy for that bit of brilliance. I did as you instructed and the story had a happy ending.

Thanks man.

Jim.

No idea what WordPress was up to here. In edit, the HTML source for the links showed href but when I loaded the page in the browser the links were all coded as xhref.

I went back in and deleted every link in the post and then added them all back in. They are now working, which they were when I initially published the post. The only difference between this and my other posts was that this one has received comments (blog’s only been up since mid-October) to which I responded although I don’t see what impact this could have.

Jim

Hi HandySolo,

Yes thanks. I’m just a victim of other tools I’ve used where you don’t have to first select text. Preconceptions can be killer.

Jim.

Okay I figured out the answer. The two icons are only activated after you select some text. You can’t insert a link without first selecting a block of text.

Sorry bout that.

Jim

Hello,

Okay a correction with apologies to Performancing. When I noted the presence of my email address on the web page, I happened to be logged into blog admin at the time. I missed the line of JS code that detected that it was me requesting the page and consequently output my email address as a part of the page. When I am not logged in, my email address is not output.

Jim

Ok I’ve just installed the javascript for Google Analytics. There is no personal info in the script – just a Google account number.

If you go to https://artsnova.com/blog/ and do a view on the source, you will see the two javascripts all the way at the bottom. I put in a comment line about Google before the start of the Google script.

Note that in the Performancing script that preceeds the Google script, I edited in a dummy email address by removing the PHP variable reference and replacing it with the dummy address.

Jim

Okay, I searched the Performancing forum and found that someone else had asked the same question but got no answer. I asked the question and hopefully will get an answer. In the meantime I’ve gone in and changed their javascript to output a dummy email address.
I’ll let you know what happens.

Jim

Hi HandySolo,

Well I can tell you that already I do not like Performancing because the javascript they require puts my email address right into the web page. Great now I’m going to get a ton of spam. My next post will be to them to find out why they do that. If its required then its so long Performancing.

Jim.

Hi HandySolo,

For a while??? I think I will install Metrics first. Then once I am convinced that it is running ok I’ll install Analytics and then compare. I wonder if using Google’s Analytics package has any impact on how Google views your site with respect to their other services.

Thanks again,
Jim

Hi HandySolo,
Thanks for the info. At this time I am primarily interested in just basic statistics. I would especially like to see how the blog traffic compares with that of the associated web site.

I’m also hoping to use the experience I gain here to set up a WordPress blog and stats for a non-profit group I’m an officer of. Then I can produce statistics for both the blog and the web site as I am providing the hosting (and no – I don’t get paid but rather pay for it – we are truely non-profit. For more info see https://www.chicagospace.org )

I think I’ll try out Metrics first and see how well that meets my needs.

Hmmmm, I wonder: is there any reason not to subscribe to both services at the same time? Has anyone reading this done that and if so what was your experience.

Thanks.
Jim

Hi jpconcepts,
While I am relatively new to blogging (and totally new to WordPress) I have been writing articles for web sites for at least 8 years. The guideline that I am using to distinguish between what I write for a blog vs a website is what I’ll call lifespan. For example a basic reference article can be good for years but a short article about a cool youtube video is perhaps timely only for a month or so. Of course if a blog is your only vehicle then everything you write will go there.

There aren’t really any rules as to length but blog entries do tend to be shorter than feature articles.

And I do use categories since I will be writing on several different topics and categories will help visitors find the subject matter they are most interested in.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Jim.