The error you're seeing is really just a misguided alert. You can check for more details and see the reasoning.

Basically, we use secure certificates to keep your data safe when working in the Dashboard, but secure certificates have to be signed to a specific domain. Since we can't provide secure certificates for every mapped domain, our certificates are signed to WordPress.com. So, your browser is seeing you access jdnphotos.com with a certificate signed for wordpress.com and warning you that WordPress.com my be intercepting your connection, which of course is perfectly fine in this case.

Only users with access to the Dashboard will see the alert.

As for the preview error, please make sure that you have both first and third-party cookies enabled. This is a bug in Firefox that we have no control over.

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61416

To review I would appreciate a video or something on how to create galleries using photos in a MEDIA library (already uploaded). Is there a way to select all using the media database. If not, I am requesting that WP consider adding this feature so that photos dont have to be duplicated in mass. When I try to do this, I dont get the create a gallery option. Even if I add them one-by-one, I dont have the gallery option. I found the existing training page but it doesnt talk to this so I think it is missing this feature.

I would like to request a way to status recent pages for those who create blogs with pages. I like the drop down menus in the new theme and that is the only way I can get these to work.

Most importantly, since I paid for the upgrade to convert from a jdnphotos.wordpress.com site to jdnphotos.com which does not work properly - you get a certificate error on sign out that tells people they have visited a bad page - I would like this error fixed. So either I forgot to do something to fix this, or WP needs to do something to fix this for visitors to my site. Or are you saying of the millions who convert, they all get this pop up message saying they've visited a bad site at signoff when editing their newly converted web site? Then you should warn your users before they pay to convert that they will from that point on get pop up error messages that their sites are now not certified.

Thank you in advance.

Yes, the Recent Posts widget only shows recent posts. There's no such widget for pages since they don't carry active publish dates, so there's no way to tell what is "recent."

I want to know how to create a gallery using photos in the media library. I do not get the gallery options unless I upload them all again. It wont let me grab all the photos at once (to then generate the gallery option). I know where the add button is, but I seem to be required to create a gallery from OFFLINE files, not photos in my media library - resulting in many duplicate photos and wasted space.

As for the widget, I guess you are saying recent PAGES dont count? Only POSTS, correct? Is there any way to show recent pages?

Thanks in advance.

If you delete the gallery page, you'll need to re-upload the image through the new gallery page.

As for the widget, it has been added correctly, but you don't have any published Posts, so nothing will appear there.

I'd also like to know how to add photos to an existing gallery page (future reference). The instructions currently posted don't work for me with this theme. Options simply don't appear. I don't know if this is a theme defect or what.

Also, when I place the widget "recent posts" in my sidebar with this new theme. they don't appear in my main page. This is also an issue.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Blog url: http://jdnphotosdotcom.wordpress.com/

...wordpress.com/wp-admin/media.php?attachment_id=1234&action=edit

The part I put in bold is the attachment ID.

* Note: To get an attachment ID for an image, go to your Media Library and hover over the image title you want to exclude. You can find the ID in the URL (the number after attachment_id=).

I went to Media library and put cursor move around on the image title (I hope that's what hover over mean), it didn't show any #.
What exact steps to get ID from the second option (URL)?

Appreciate if anyone can help out here.

I'll send a note to staff on this and hopefully they will clarify it.

id=xxx where xxx is the id number of the image.

"Note: To get an attachment ID for an image, go to your Media Library and hover over the image title you want to exclude. You can find the ID in the URL (the number after attachment_id=)."

But! When I hover over an image title in my Media Library what I get is "Edit Image". Also the image URL appears to be made up of the image title, not a numeric ID.

Anyone else run into this and solved it? Or should I throw myself at a Happiness Engineer? ta! Heather

I wish this could be the the case... not just for [gallery] short code.

What I want: a few photos on a page, then at the bottom of the page, a small gallery of OTHER photos, NOT including those further up the page.
I've read how to exclude specific image(s) from a gallery/slideshow here:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/

So I understand it in theory and it looks simple. Basically I just need to write [gallery exclude="imageattachmentID"] but I don't understand how to find the 'image attachment ID', and it seems pretty key! This is how it is described in the support article:

* Note: To get an attachment ID for an image, go to your Media Library and click on the image title you want to exclude. You can find the ID in the URL (the number after attachment_id=).

But I can't find this 'attachment ID' anywhere!

Can someone please help?!

As far as the Support article, please take a moment and drop Support a note with your comments about improving the Support documentation. They are pretty receptive.

I agree. link="none" would be an excellent addition to the Gallery shortcode.

I think there should be more options for what the images link to, such as to nothing, and to an external location. I like using the shortcode, so if these options were included in the shortcode, that would be really useful.

Also, I think the support article should explain how to find an image's attachment ID. (I know how, thanks to a forum thread, but I think that would be very useful information in the article, considering many people have asked about it and the information is not forthcoming anywhere else that I can see.)

I think both of these would be relatively simple modifications to what you already have going on, but they would make a big difference.