WordPress.com has come a long way since its early days of offering a simple way to get into blogging without having to worry about how to set up a self-hosted WordPress site. I know some people use WordPress.com as a stepping stone to a self-hosted… Read More
Colour backgrounds behind quotes in Gutenberg If you use Gutenberg and you want add a splash of colour behind a paragraph of text, you go over to the sidebar and you will see two tabs. One says Colour Settings and the other says Advanced. When you… Read More
The title of this post is ‘Should Automattic Disallow Scammy Ads’. Scammy is an urban dictionary word rather than something you will find in the Oxford or Webster’s Dictionaries, but I am sure you get the idea that it means anything that is and/or related to a… Read More
Troubleshooting plugin conflicts is fun. Yes, I know, you can’t have plugins on WordPress.com sites. That is, you can’t unless you have the Business plan (more about that another time). So this is for people who run self-hosted WordPress sites. Today I had a plugin… Read More
Gutenberg Media Library Issue: Just checking, is anyone else who is using Gutenberg also seeing this issue? In a nutshell, the media library is showing the list of images as though they are not attached to posts, but they are. And the issue is only… Read More
Gutenberg problems in Safari browser
For the first time since I started using Gutenberg I am really impressed. And strangely, perhaps, I am impressed by creating a page that looks more like a newspaper. I can’t create anything like it here on WP.com because it needs the Caxton plugin (get… Read More
