A bit of impromptu ramblings here. I was in the middle of racking my brain on how to create a child theme (I know, I can just open the theme tutorial on WPORG and follow it like a good student I should be, but I tend to go yeehaw-ing on things), then I ended up with thinking about featured images on my blog. From there, I found some things to… uh, rant about. Please note that this is not a jab on anyone. I know that folks at Automattic already on a stressful situation right now and having a grumpy ex-colleague blasting them on blog wouldn’t do well. That said, I’m writing this down to remind me to open a proper bug report.
Featured Image Block
I don’t know if I remembered things wrong, but somehow I recalled that there was this option on Featured Image block, where you can set minimum height for the featured image. That said, I looked around (WPCOM Support page included), and I can’t find it. I did found that we can adjust the width and height of the image, though, even though it doesn’t look super appealing (at least for me).
Once I added the width and height there, the Aspect Ratio turned to Custom and the featured image got displayed just like I wanted.
However…
That is not the process that I wanted. Specifically, seeing that gray area sliiiiiightly poked outside the area is enough to make me twitch. Oh, well. At least my posts now looking great.
Jetpack for iOS app: “Saved” post?
I just realized that there is no “Saved” option for Reader on its web format.
This is how it looks like on the app (Jetpack for iOS app).
Under “Discover”, you can see the “Saved” tab. I usually saved blog posts/articles that I found whenever I browse Reader, be it on Discover or bloggers that I follow. Just recently, I wanted to find a blog post of a blogger who created a WP theme using the same plugin that I’ve been using (Create Block Theme) while I’m online on my laptop. Imagine my confusion when I couldn’t find any “Saved” section on the Reader:
While, yes, technically, I could open the blog post from my phone and copy-pasted the URL to my laptop, that would be not ideal, no? I love the “Saved” section, please bring it to the web version.
Speaking of “Reader”, I have been reviewing my bookmarks, too. I have “Bookmarks” category on my blog, and honestly, I’m not a big fan of it. That one, and the “Aside” category. I made them when I wanted to move everything to my blog; and now that I found my comfortable footing, I decided to retire those two categories by setting the posts to Draft. My particular gripe about the posts under “Bookmarks” is that… I only copy-pasted the content, slapped some links/URL, then called it a day. Yes, the initial goal was to save/keep interesting reads, but now that I’m using Vivaldi’s Reading List, the need for “saving links” would be unnecessary. Also, no personal thought, no opinions, nothing on the post itself. It made me feel like I’m taking credits of someone else’s works, you know. In some ways, it’s similar to the repost process in social media, but at least with repost, folks still could see the actual creator/the source. I’m planning to revisit the posts, this time with my thoughts and writings.
