5. Narrower Text & Wider Images

Introduction With this post, we arrive at my personal incentive for switching from Tumblr to WordPress: more control over the width of the text relative to the width of images. While I attempt to illustrate various…

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4. Replacing Default Comments

No doubt there are many plugins available that I’ve not encountered. In this post is a workaround I’ve come up with to avoid spam comments. Works fine! Spam Comments After a test post of this web…

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3. Additional CSS

Introduction When one is in the WordPress Dashboard and clicks the Customize Theme button, one option is “Additional CSS.” There’s a text box in which one can add entries to the cascading style sheet. Modifying the…

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2. Visual vs. Code Editor

Note: This discussion is mostly an encouragement to edit the code directly when needed, although most users will rely on the Visual Editor. This discussion also pre-dates the release of the new Block Editor in WordPress 5.0,…

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1. Themes

As I wrote in my previous post, themes in both Tumblr and WordPress frustrate me. This post addresses only WordPress themes. Aesthetics My first annoyance is aesthetic: most themes that I found militate against a text-dominant…

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