Photograph Works

  • Use The Customizer in a Block Theme

    In this site PhotographWorks, the font size for the anchor text is bigger than font size for the body text.

    The difference in font size between the anchor text and the body text has been bugging me.

    I don’t know how the font sizes came to be different and I can’t see that I made any changes in global styles or anywhere else.

    Look at this screen grab, and you can see that the font size for the anchor text Ghost Notes is bigger compared to the body text.

    It’s been bugging me but I didn’t get around to doing anything about it until today.

    Enter Claude

    Today I happened upon an email from WP.com that said that the Claude LLM could link to WP.com.

    So rather than ask the LLM in the WP admin as I usually would, I asked Claude how to make the anchor text font the same size as the body text.

    It came up with a couple of suggestions, one of which was to add some CSS.

    Classic vs Block Themes

    I am using the Twenty Twenty-Five WordPress theme, which is a Block theme.

    You will see these themes referred to as full site editing (FSE) themes.

    What makes Block themes different from classic themes is that Classic. themes are built on PHP.

    Block themes are built from HTML templates. And bingo – those templates are made of blocks.

    This automatically enables the FSE site editor.

    So for most purposes we can say that Block themes are FSE themes.

    If you didn’t understand all that, neither do I completely.

    The Customizer

    The thing is that with Classic themes you can usually use the Customizer and tweak the theme and add CSS.

    You might think therefore that with an FSE theme that you can’t get to the Customizer to add CSS, but you can if you know where to go.

    Instead of going to Appearance / Editor in WP Admin, instead go to yourdomain DOT com/wp-admin/customize.php and you will see it says:

    Hurray! Your theme supports site editing with blocks. Use Site Editor

    Ignore Use Site Editor, and below that you will see that it says

    Customizing < Additional CSS
    Add your own CSS code here to customize the appearance and layout of your site.

    And that’s where you add your CSS.

    Here is the CSS that I added:

    .entry-content p a {
      font-size: 1em;
    }

    And here is a screenshot of the section of the post as it looks now with the anchor text and the body text the same size.

  • Fujifilm 55-200mm Lens on an X-T50 body

    The last time I shot a parade with this body and lens combination was at the New Year’s Day Parade here in London. And I haven’t had the lens on the camera since then.

    My memory of using the lens was that it is too heavy for the body. The X-T50 is very light as cameras go, and it weighs just 438g with battery and card. And it is small as well, the little brother to the X-T5.

    My idea was to use it as a carry-around camera with a small lens on it to complement my big Canon R6, which weighs 680g with battery and two cards.

    Then, after I bought the Canon I saw the cost of the long lenses and blanched. Boy, does Canon make some expensive lenses.

    So I thought of other options and from an Andy Mumford video I saw ages ago, I thought maybe the Fuji 55-200mm lens might be OK.

    So that was a maybe, but you never really know what the shooting experience is until you do it yourself.

    And this time around was just the same as previously: Shooting with the lens at maximum focal length is like trying to hold a long stick steady in front of you when you are just holding one end.

    The saving grace is that the camera has in-body image stabilisation. And the lens has image stabilisation too. Put the two together and the camera can pull off some shots that are in focus and sharp.

    Here is a scene of a woman helping another getting ready for the parade, and then a close-up of the woman being prepped.

    So there are two things – the performance of the camera and lens on the one hand and the experience of actually shooting it on the other side.

    On a scale of one to ten, with ten being great, I give the camera and lens a solid 9 for quality and a solid 4 for actually shooting this waving stick of a lens on a small body.

  • Doing Makeup Before The Parade