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babso2you on "What happened to the page that announced WP articles?"

babso2you — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:21:38 +0000

I used to go to my dashboard and click on WP at the bottom to see the stuff WP had at the bottom of the old page. Where did that go to as I cannot find it. Friday's feature the photo challenge and I would like to find it.

JMO - I love having my blog on your site and was planning on including my blog on a new website. I am wondering why WP takes the things that are working and changes them making it only more difficult to use. What is the plan here?

careyjolliffe on "Chateau Fonts gone crazy"

careyjolliffe — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:28:28 +0000

Hi,

Okay, problem solved. I just realized my custom subscription had lapsed. Thank you for the help

careyjolliffe on "Chateau Fonts gone crazy"

careyjolliffe — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:18:59 +0000

Hello,

It's been a 7 days and no one has responded. Can anyone please help?

tst2wp on "Choosing post formats when emailing"

tst2wp — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:57:00 +0000

Agree 100% on all counts!! I've also wanted the same "choose format option" for EMAIL blogging.

Re: Asides & Status posts (P2 Theme for me) imho they most definitely need "proper" Titles. I set the DEFAULT post format as STANDARD in P2 for that very reason, but it does not "hold," & continues to post everything as a "Status." In Status mode it slaps entire sentences in the Title area & I have to then go fix them all... which defeats the purpose of a "quick-use" activity stream theme.

Thanks.

tommisalonen on "Choosing post formats when emailing"

tommisalonen — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:02:38 +0000

I would like to be able to choose post format when posting by email. The same way you can assign categories and tags to your post.

Also, post titles in aside and status posts should be truly optional. Now they aren't.

careyjolliffe on "Chateau Fonts gone crazy"

careyjolliffe — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:44:33 +0000

Thank you!

timethief on "Chateau Fonts gone crazy"

timethief — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:39:48 +0000

Hi there,
I have flagged this thread for Themes Staff attention. Please be patient while waiting for their response.

careyjolliffe on "Chateau Fonts gone crazy"

careyjolliffe — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:31:48 +0000

Did they makes some changes to the Chateau theme over the past couple days? Suddenly all my fonts and lines are messed up. The bold italic fonts are now simply bold, the colors have all turned to black and weird white boxes have appeared throughout the page. What happened? I haven't made any changes to my blog for weeks, so I don't believe it's anything I've done. Please help

vermontography on "Esquire theme width"

vermontography — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:44:39 +0000

I think I'm having the same problem. I just switched over to a new theme - Esquire. I love it! However, it's contorting my images. Although I put the auto embed size as 640 under Settings>media. { 600 would also do since it's what I used in the theme Vigilance, but I like 640 since that's what my Flickr images are set as.} However, Esquire is scaling them to 560px × 400px. It just looks weird, especially since I use a wide-angle lens most of the time.

Blog: http://www.dailynibbles.com

Is this something that I would need to use CSS for to change the actual fixed-width of the blog? I just took a look at the CSS code and have no idea what to adjust to fix the image size.

thesacredpath on "Esquire theme width"

thesacredpath — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:57:54 +0000

I can be widened with the Custom Design upgrade via CSS.

yuanfenyang on "Esquire theme width"

yuanfenyang — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:55:31 +0000

Hi all,

Is it possible to get the Esquire theme to un-constrain the width of the text of the main page? On a large window, the content looks oddly squashed.

supportbot on "What video formats does WordPress support?"

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adetuc on "What video formats does WordPress support?"

adetuc — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:08:03 +0000

Hi,
I have a .com with WordPress installed and am trying to upload .mp4 and .avi movies with little success.

Does wordpress support these file types or should I use a plugin ? I have tried most of the video plugins but they all don't work with these formats.

I would like a user to upload a video they shot on their mobile phone straight to my web site, is this possible ?

Thanks in advance

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:19:16 +0000

Drat! :-)

-Peregrine

panaghiotisadam on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

panaghiotisadam — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:17:11 +0000

Sorry, I've got more bad news for you: in the WP blog you generally see comments of the "AWESOME" or "AMAZING" variety only, not because they're all written by "the true techies" and the "advanced wunderkinds" but because comments are moderated: negative comments by some true techies usually don't see the light of the day.

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:49:59 +0000

One more thought: When new themes come out there are always comments by the true techies who know everything about blogging formats etc. They make comments like AWESOME or AMAZING, leading me to know that the creator of the new theme has done something extra special in a really slick way. I know that SOMETHING is there that the advanced wunderkinds really appreciate....... but I never know exactly what it is about that thing that the advanced techies are talking about or what difficulty the creator has hurdled.

And so, there is yet another example of the beginner not knowing what's going on.
:-) :-) :-) :-)

-Peregrine

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:45:33 +0000

Panos, yes, that's right -- some themes get explained in effective detail. When themes are explained, I think that because blogging is always going to be a Beginner Heavy adventure (always new people), explanations have to be written with the knowledge that many if not most of the readers will be beginners or beginner intermediates.

A picture should always accompany a written explanation. Examples should be given. Details. Things to be aware of. Beware. Don't do this. Do this first because. etc etc

I could go on all night but right now I have to go downstairs to make dinner, so bye bye, Panos, and thank you for this extra note with info.

-Peregrine

panaghiotisadam on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

panaghiotisadam — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:19:12 +0000

You're welcome.

Some of the demo themes are like you're suggesting:
http://beachdemo.wordpress.com/
http://fruitshakedemo.wordpress.com/
http://mystiquedemo.wordpress.com/
http://rustygrungedemo.wordpress.com/

Apparently the demos aren't all created by the same person or with the same care. (And the Support doc on post formats doesn't even list all the available formats - let alone explain what they are).

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:55:16 +0000

Dear Panos: This reply is Golden. Thank you'; now I get it. And now I also have a suggestion for those theme pages:

Label each picture. This is an aside post. Notice that it has no title.

This is a standard post that you've probably been doing all along.

This is a Gallery post. See the thumbnail?

This is a Photo post. Note no tags or date on the side to distract the eye.

Because, Panos, until you said what you said up there, none of that was clear. Maybe clear to those who know more than I do, but not clear to me.

So thank you! I also keep seeing your WordPress Tips coming up in people's explanations so I think I have to make a special Bookmark. When I switched from Firefox to Safari all my bookmarks got jumbled.

-Peregrine

panaghiotisadam on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

panaghiotisadam — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:23:40 +0000

When you select a post format and hit preview, you'll see no differences, because the differences concern the main posts page only, not the single post view.

See here:
http://chateaudemo.wordpress.com/

"We Really Like This Cherry Tree" is a sticky post (says "Featured" instead of date).
"Hello world!" is a standard post.
Next one is an aside (no title).
"Image post" and "Gallery post" are what they say (image post highlights the image by moving the post metadata out of the way, gallery post shows one thumbnail and mentions how many images there are in the gallery).

See here too, for more extravagant examples:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/post-formats-in-vertigo/

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:43:22 +0000

Correction of above: I am still NOT seeing what an Aside Post looks like.

-Peregrine
Strongly needing some fortified bird seed...........

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:36:06 +0000

CHATEAU THEME / Aside post

I just now went to New Post > Aside format

Then I wrote a couple of sentences. Then, since it was just an experiment, I clicked Preview. Nothing happened. Clicking that Preview button does not show anything.

Thus I am still now really seeing what an Aside Post looks like.

-Peregrine

justjennifer on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

justjennifer — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:35:23 +0000

Got it.

Probably the most comprehensive explanations I've seen so far have been on the Twenty Eleven theme Post Formats. Again, take it with a grain of salt because styling is theme dependent even if the explanation is similar across the board.

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:28:46 +0000

OH... ok, Jennifer, that link ( http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/post-formats/ ) is the link where I started out. That is where I got the bug to investigate what all the different post formats look like. :-) :-) :-)

-Peregrine

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:27:13 +0000

Whoa. I now went through all the example pages in the Chateau theme and there was no example of an ASIDE post.

And that just sounds intriguing to me, an Aside Post. I like it without even seeing it.

Jennifer, thank you for the answer on Status Posts. I will go to the link that you gave.

-Peregrine

justjennifer on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

justjennifer — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:21:54 +0000

You're welcome, L.

justjennifer on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

justjennifer — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:21:16 +0000

Styling of the Status post format depends on the Theme. Some are styled with the Gravatar of the person next to it, some are not.

Have a look here. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/post-formats/ Click on the theme link to check them out.

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:18:36 +0000

@JustJennifer --
Thanks! I went through all of the formsts and now am wondering what the difference is between a regular post in which I place a picture at the top, and a Picture Post? They look the same to me.

I also now realize that the CHATEAU theme does not have a STATUS post format. I'll just go look it up in another theme that does support the Status Post.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, Jennifer

-Peregrine.

5700words on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

5700words — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:12:18 +0000

What is the STATUS format? What does it look like?

I was checking out which themes have which kinds of formats and some have STATUS. What is STATUS? I did a search for it, but it only led me to the page where I saw the word in the first place -- with no definition and no example of what it looks like.

-Peregrine

justjennifer on "Please show examples of Gallery, Aside, and Picture formats"

justjennifer — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:11:59 +0000

Best to look at the theme's demo site. Click on the "See it in action" button on this page
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/chateau/