WORDPRESS!!! STOP IT!!!

Not content with playing with the Post Creation, they have now adjusted the buttons on the notifications bubble. The “Reply” button has shifted to the other side. It took me a while to realise that it had moved. There is nothing wrong with how things were, so please stop bloody playing with it.

IT IS NOT BROKE! DON’T FIX IT!

^{Great that post 2500 had to be a moaning one.}

A Backdoor For New Posts

After my post yesterday “What Have You Done, WordPress?” I saw a post that led to a thread on the WP forums of 11 pages containing complaints from people about the new BEEP BEEP BOOP way of the posts. None of the Happiness Engineers have taken part in that discussion.

I had a reply from another user on there telling me how to create a post using the standard – old way – of creating posts and it is so easy. I will create a screenshot showing how to do it.

Just click “New” … That is it. Not “post“, “page“, “media“, “link“. Just “New“.

Word Wrap Know How

I have been asked how to word wrap around images in WordPress.

When importing an image into your WordPress, you have the choice of where to place them – left alignment, right alignment, centre alignment or no alignment. If you choose “No Alignment”, then the image will sit in the centre and any text will appear above and below the image, but not to the sides.

It seems to be a relatively easy way to word wrap an image and there is only one way that I have found how to do it. You have to write the text first that you want the image beside.

Then you place the image either to the left or the right by clicking on the first line of the paragraph, selecting your image, and in its properties, select the alignment of Left or Right. This can be altered later.

 

Then insert the image into the post and you have the writing going down either the left or the right of your post, whichever you chose.

Again, this can be altered by clicking on the image and then the “Pencil” icon that appears in the top left, then select the alignment from there.

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Adding Media To Your Post

Adding things to your post can sometimes be tricky. With some browsers, it is easy – you drag and drop and it brings up the correct dialogue box. Or you go in search of it and select it to add in. After someone mentioned that they were having trouble, I thought I would do some screenshots. Browsers have their bits in different places so to speak, so I will do this post for Mozilla Firefox. I personally prefer Chrome, and I use IE11 for Sunday Photo Fiction to save re-entering passwords and usernames. It also depends on how you are creating a new post as well. I am going to show from the way that I have always done it:

On Firefox, once you have selected New Post, you will have one of three views:

FULLSCREEN – “No Distractions” mode

Minimal Toolbar

With Kitchen Sink

On full screen mode, move the mouse to the top of the screen to find THIS:

Media Full Screen (Move mouse to top of screen)

On the other two modes, the Add Media button is on the left:

Once you click on this, you are faced with another window. The first is the main one:

Media Library

The media library. This is where you can choose any of the images you have already uploaded to WordPress. The second is for uploading:

Image Select

Where you select the image you want to use from your computer:

Select File

Which is then added to your media library with a tick and you select INSERT so it will then be in your post. Once there, if you click on the image, you will see this:

 

You can click on one of the highlighted white boxes to stretch the image in ay direction. Clicking on the pencil will result in:

Pencil click

Here you can change the alignment of the photo from left, right, center, none. The size from Thumbnail, Medium, Large, Full (Depending on the size of the image, LARGE may not be an option). You can also add a caption (the writing underneath the image in italic) and add ALTERNATE text (what is seen of there is no image available, due to either other people’s computer settings or mobile device settings)

You’ll notice in the Add Media image, there are other options on the left:

Insert Media

• Create A Gallery: Images are tiled together, or you can set separate circles or separate squares.
• Seat Featured Image: This is the image at the top of that post, above all writing
• Insert tweet: You will be asked to choose With Hashtag (#), To User, By User, By Location
• Insert YouTube: You will be asked for YouTube Address or YouTube User name
• Insert from URL: Added from external website.