driver49

CLS – somebody else I mentioned Cumulative Layout Shift. Dunno what that means but I guess I’m going to find out.

That image that loads with the header/logo, the files is 200x200px @72dpi… but it’s only displaying 100x100px. Should I reconfigure that file to 100×100 and reduce the image quality. What’s a good file size for that kind of image?

Thanks,

–PS

OK, my bad, you can disregard the previous.

Being OCD – and unable to rest until the obstacle in front of me is cleared – I took the step recommended in the second part of @mariustar ‘s reply and… sure enough, enabling user avatars in the ‘discussion’ settings solved the problem. That activated the Gravatar / Profile Picture option in my User Profile.

I tried to delete the two previous messages but apparently this system doesn’t permit that. So I will just make this one as ‘resolved.’

Thanks,

–PS

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by driver49. Reason: typo

Also: I just checked my Gravatar account, and the Primary Email Address for that account is the same for the WordPress Admin account that does not allow me to create the Profile Pic.

So the mystery persists.

–PS

Thank you for this reply, but how will opening a Gravatar account solve my problem? Because, you see, I already have a Gravatar account. That is how I set the avatar for my other WordPress installations.

The problem remains that in the User Admin / Profile settings, I do not have the option to to add a ‘Profile Picture’ by any means – Gravatar or otherwise. As you can see from the screenshot attached to my first post, the option just does not exist where it should be.

I thought for a second about following the second part of your reply, until I read “you can configure avatar options for your users as well.” That’s not what I’m trying to do here, I am trying to create an avatar for my silly self.

So the original question remains, “why doesn’t the ‘Profile Picture’ option appear in the Edit Profile section?” and is there anything I can do to restore it?

Thanks,

—PS

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by driver49.

‘Also, and I feel like I’m beginning to sound like a broken record here, you should always take these tools and their recommendations for what they are: mere tools. You need to add your human judgement to these recommendations and decide whether to bother “fixing” what they report or not.

That’s some sage counsel there. I appreciate your taking the time to dive into the code and disabuse me of my misconception re: the source of the wonky ratio. I think I’ll just mark this one ‘resolved’ and move on to the next dilemma…. ??

Thanks,

–PS

Thanks for the reply.

I kinda know that the code is coming from the theme. I’m using the Astra theme, and the posts I create with it are clean and none show up in the HTML:TEXT ratio warnings.

The problem near as I can tell is that all the posts that do show up in those warnings are really old and created with Typepad, and I think that is the source of the undesirable ratio, either directly from Typepad or as a consequence of the conversation to WordPress. Durned I know.

It occurs to me that I could take the content from the original posts – without any of the underlying code – and recreate the posts inside of just Astra, but that would be a lot of work on a lot of posts of limited current value when all I’m trying to do is improve the ‘Site Health’ number.

Which, unfortunately, is precisely the kind of ‘busy’ work I tend to do instead of ‘real’ work…. ?????♂?

Thanks,

–PS

Anybody? Bueller?

Am I the only one with this problem?

Hello, anybody still there?

Due to another problem I created for myself, I had to deactivate all the plugins in my WP install.

The first one I activated is the ‘Classic Editor’ — and discovered that the problem persists. When I reach the bottom of the editor window, the tool bar scrolls up off the screen.

Wondering if this was a common occurrence, I opened the Classic Editor for another site, an discovered… why, yes, the same thing happens. When I get to the bottom of a post, the tool bar at the top scrolls out of sight.

So, back my original question: is there some way to ‘Anchor’ the tool bar, so that it’s always there, even when I get to the bottom of the editor window?

Thanks,

–PS

Alas, it seems I spoke to soon.

The toolbar stays locked….

…until I get to the bottom of the text/edit window…

…THEN the whole page scrolls up and takes the toolbar with it.

I have a total of 19 plugins at the moment (yes, some I could do without and might just as well delete). When I find a window when that seems like the best use of my time, I’ll unplug ’em all and and see if I can find the culprit.

Unless, maybe…. something else could be causing the issue? Beats me.

Thanks,

–PS

Thank you for steering me in the right direction.

I was reluctant to deactive all the plugins, but just now I was looking at the Plugins page and noticed I’d recently added

Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced)

… in order to add sub-and-superscript characters to a post.

I deactivated just that one plugin and… voila, the toolbar stays put.

I might fuss with the settings in the plugin, but probably not until I need sub/supscript characters. I’ll probably just leave it deactivated till then.

#LittleVictories!

–P

That might be an interesting idea for a number of reasons.

Thanks for the suggestion and the link.

–P

I went ahead and installed it on one of my sites. Seems to work fine.

Thanks,

–PS

That appears to be the case, though I did find a plugin that did the trick a couple of weeks ago (couldn’t find the same plugin this time and already forgot what it was called).

I did contact my Host, and they modified whatever .php file it is that put set that limit. I got my plugin uploaded and shouldn’t have that problem again.

BTW, my host is Knownhost, and their support is outstanding.

–PS

I just did another audit, and while I still have a lot of “errors” to sort out, it actually appears that NONE of them are “issues with broken internal JavaScript and CSS files.”

I wish the rest of this site-resurrection was that easy!

Thanks,

–PS

Great, will do, and will report.

Thanks

–PS