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[PCSarge]

woop woop CPU article be live and kicking 

 

my work here is done until he asks for more, if anyone needs help. ask. 

[Sir Beregond]

Very nice job Kyle.

 

I'm still writing mine. I tend to write in spurts in between bouts of writers block I am noticing.

[PCSarge]

2 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Very nice job Kyle.

 

I'm still writing mine. I tend to write in spurts in between bouts of writers block I am noticing.

you might laugh and i dont know if its appropriate for here but.

 

smoking a little ganja tends to make my information pour out of me onto paper pretty easily

[Sir Beregond]

1 hour ago, PCSarge said:

you might laugh and i dont know if its appropriate for here but.

 

smoking a little ganja tends to make my information pour out of me onto paper pretty easily

LOL! Well I do live in Colorado, but I do not partake. I'm too paranoid about "hey random drug test!" at work, so I'd rather play it safe. May be legal in state, but companies don't like it.

[Avacado]

11 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

LOL! Well I do live in Colorado, but I do not partake. I'm too paranoid about "hey random drug test!" at work, so I'd rather play it safe. May be legal in state, but companies don't like it.

This. Try working for the federal government and saying it's legal in your state on a random drug screen....

[Sir Beregond]

9 minutes ago, Avacado said:

This. Try working for the federal government and saying it's legal in your state on a random drug screen....

Precisely. Now, I've never had anything other than a drug test prior to starting employment anywhere, but I'd just rather not tempt fate.

[PCSarge]

10 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Precisely. Now, I've never had anything other than a drug test prior to starting employment anywhere, but I'd just rather not tempt fate.

as long as you are not stoned and operating machinery or a vehicle, they could care less here.

 

[bonami2]

3 minutes ago, PCSarge said:

as long as you are not stoned and operating machinery or a vehicle, they could care less here.

 

 

 

Thank for the memory haha did not watch there movie in a long time.   

Here the source of that picture 

https://youtu.be/HuYeQi4wB_k

 

 

 

 

[pio]

PC Sarge took my topic.  

 

Nah, seriously though, I'm glad somebody wrote it and he did a great job.  I've been sooo freaking busy lately between trying to get a functional internet connection, keeping up with my kiddo's schooling online (without an internet connection), shopping for a house so I can have an internet connection........

 

If anyone absorbs my other topic I wouldn't feel bad at all.  I needed the cash, but meh, I also need the time too. -_-  Sorry E.  I feel like I've let ya down.

[bonami2]

10 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

PC Sarge took my topic.  

 

Nah, seriously though, I'm glad somebody wrote it and he did a great job.  I've been sooo freaking busy lately between trying to get a functional internet connection, keeping up with my kiddo's schooling online (without an internet connection), shopping for a house so I can have an internet connection........

 

If anyone absorbs my other topic I wouldn't feel bad at all.  I needed the cash, but meh, I also need the time too. -_-  Sorry E.  I feel like I've let ya down.

Is Starlink not out? Could be an option. My mom use Xplornet in canada seem to work great.

[pio]

55 minutes ago, bonami2 said:

Is Starlink not out? Could be an option. My mom use Xplornet in canada seem to work great.

Not till 23 sadly.  I'm on the waitlist though.

[bonami2]

15 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

Not till 23 sadly.  I'm on the waitlist though.

Ah that sad. Pretty bad that in 2022 we still have those issue

[iamjanco]

So I'm in the middle of hacking together a "review" article and have a few questions that I've posed to E @ENTERPRISEwho might be too busy to get back to me at the moment. I did float them by a couple of folks in a Discord chat yesterday, but they didn't know the answers. Maybe someone else here might be able to provide them though (trying to finish this article by the end of this month). 

 

Some notes first:

1. I come with/from an advanced website development background, which includes among many other things the use of WordPress and other content management systems and forum software. That means I know how things are supposed to work. I am also retired now though and don't do any website development work currently;
2. I've read the help PDF document that was put together to help contributors put together WordPress posts. It may be dated though, as some things in it don't seem to work the way the way they should, which leads me to...; 
3. I would like to use the gallery functionality such that I can put together a collection of image thumbnails representing larger images that display in a modal lightbox when those thumbnails are clicked on; whether as a slideshow or individually. The only thing I seem to be able to create are galleries consisting of selected images that display as the size they're saved to disk to on the server. The media library seems to be set up to restrict what authors can actually do using it, especially when it comes to image sizing choices. These limitations might also be dictated by customizations made to the site's theme functionality (e.g., the theme's function.php file; and perhaps other theme files). I suspect that isn't the case though because a child theme set doesn't appear to be in use in as per a looksee into the the site's sourcecode. 

Anyway, I can't seem to make no. 3 happen the way things are set up in the dashboard for authors now, no matter what I do. What, if anything, am I doing wrong? 

 

Could be the issue is that is just the way the dashboard is configured for authors now, but figured someone here might be able to help clear that up for me.

 

TIA for any help provided! 

 

(now it's back to your regularly scheduled programming)

[Avacado]

30 minutes ago, iamjanco said:

So I'm in the middle of hacking together a "review" article and have a few questions that I've posed to E @ENTERPRISEwho might be too busy to get back to me at the moment. I did float them by a couple of folks in a Discord chat yesterday, but they didn't know the answers. Maybe someone else here might be able to provide them though (trying to finish this article by the end of this month). 

 

Some notes first:

1. I come with/from an advanced website development background, which includes among many other things the use of WordPress and other content management systems and forum software. That means I know how things are supposed to work. I am also retired now though and don't do any website development work currently;
2. I've read the help PDF document that was put together to help contributors put together WordPress posts. It may be dated though, as some things in it don't seem to work the way the way they should, which leads me to...; 
3. I would like to use the gallery functionality such that I can put together a collection of image thumbnails representing larger images that display in a modal lightbox when those thumbnails are clicked on; whether as a slideshow or individually. The only thing I seem to be able to create are galleries consisting of selected images that display as the size they're saved to disk to on the server. The media library seems to be set up to restrict what authors can actually do using it, especially when it comes to image sizing choices. These limitations might also be dictated by customizations made to the site's theme functionality (e.g., the theme's function.php file; and perhaps other theme files). I suspect that isn't the case though because a child theme set doesn't appear to be in use in as per a looksee into the the site's sourcecode. 

Anyway, I can't seem to make no. 3 happen the way things are set up in the dashboard for authors now, no matter what I do. What, if anything, am I doing wrong? 

 

Could be the issue is that is just the way the dashboard is configured for authors now, but figured someone here might be able to help clear that up for me.

 

TIA for any help provided! 

 

(now it's back to your regularly scheduled programming)

I have the same experience with #3. Also quite annoying is that as a writer ALL of your images are stored on the media tab with no way that I have seen to segregate them into folders or by review. Slideshow and advanced options for media is something I never found or missed somehow. Being limited by number of columns and thumbnail-full size is quite limiting as you say. 

[iamjanco]

1 hour ago, Avacado said:

I have the same experience with #3. Also quite annoying is that as a writer ALL of your images are stored on the media tab with no way that I have seen to segregate them into folders or by review. Slideshow and advanced options for media is something I never found or missed somehow. Being limited by number of columns and thumbnail-full size is quite limiting as you say. 

 

Okay, I've got it figured out (check out a preview of my draft article if you have access, which I think you do as an author). 

 

You have to make sure that when inserting a gallery you do so using the classic editor instead of the block editor. What threw me off is that the way the theme in use works it allows for a mix of sections that are created and managed using the classic editor, and a mix of sections that are blocks. If you try to create a gallery/lightbox combo in a section that is a block, you run into the problem I described in my previous post.

 

I did watch the video noted in the PDF help doc, but it isn't very clear about that.

Edited May 27, 2022 by iamjanco

[Avacado]

17 minutes ago, iamjanco said:

 

Okay, I've got it figured out (check out a preview of my draft article if you have access, which I think you do as an author). 

 

You have to make sure that when inserting a gallery you do so using the classic editor instead of the block editor. What threw me off is that the way the theme in use works it allows for a mix of sections that are created and managed using the classic editor, and a mix of sections that are blocks. If you try to create a gallery/lightbox combo in a section that is a block, you run into the problem I described in my previous post.

 

I did watch the video noted in the PDF help doc, but it isn't very clear about that.

I'll check out the classic next time. I can't view other authors articles. AFAIK you can only see your own. E didn't give me those kinda rights. I'm not an admin....

Edited May 27, 2022 by Avacado

[iamjanco]

5 minutes ago, Avacado said:

I'll check out the classic next time. I can't view other authors articles. AFAIK you can only see your own. E didn't give me those kinda rights. I'm not an admin....

 

Yeah, you're right. You can view other's published posts via the dashboard, but not those in draft status. I just confirmed that.

[ENTERPRISE]

On 27/05/2022 at 09:00, pioneerisloud said:

PC Sarge took my topic.  

 

Nah, seriously though, I'm glad somebody wrote it and he did a great job.  I've been sooo freaking busy lately between trying to get a functional internet connection, keeping up with my kiddo's schooling online (without an internet connection), shopping for a house so I can have an internet connection........

 

If anyone absorbs my other topic I wouldn't feel bad at all.  I needed the cash, but meh, I also need the time too. -_-  Sorry E.  I feel like I've let ya down.

Nope, no let down buddy, I get how precious time can be

22 hours ago, iamjanco said:

So I'm in the middle of hacking together a "review" article and have a few questions that I've posed to E @ENTERPRISEwho might be too busy to get back to me at the moment. I did float them by a couple of folks in a Discord chat yesterday, but they didn't know the answers. Maybe someone else here might be able to provide them though (trying to finish this article by the end of this month). 

 

Some notes first:

1. I come with/from an advanced website development background, which includes among many other things the use of WordPress and other content management systems and forum software. That means I know how things are supposed to work. I am also retired now though and don't do any website development work currently;
2. I've read the help PDF document that was put together to help contributors put together WordPress posts. It may be dated though, as some things in it don't seem to work the way the way they should, which leads me to...; 
3. I would like to use the gallery functionality such that I can put together a collection of image thumbnails representing larger images that display in a modal lightbox when those thumbnails are clicked on; whether as a slideshow or individually. The only thing I seem to be able to create are galleries consisting of selected images that display as the size they're saved to disk to on the server. The media library seems to be set up to restrict what authors can actually do using it, especially when it comes to image sizing choices. These limitations might also be dictated by customizations made to the site's theme functionality (e.g., the theme's function.php file; and perhaps other theme files). I suspect that isn't the case though because a child theme set doesn't appear to be in use in as per a looksee into the the site's sourcecode. 

Anyway, I can't seem to make no. 3 happen the way things are set up in the dashboard for authors now, no matter what I do. What, if anything, am I doing wrong? 

 

Could be the issue is that is just the way the dashboard is configured for authors now, but figured someone here might be able to help clear that up for me.

 

TIA for any help provided! 

 

(now it's back to your regularly scheduled programming)

I am glad you managed to get it sorted it looks like. There are tonnes of plugins for WordPress which I will investigate more with respects to extra functions and ease of writing Sorry I did not get to your PM sooner.

[iamjanco]

1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Nope, no let down buddy, I get how precious time can be

I am glad you managed to get it sorted it looks like. There are tonnes of plugins for WordPress which I will investigate more with respects to extra functions and ease of writing Sorry I did not get to your PM sooner.

 NP, E, figured you were busy with something or other. 

 

I did just respond to your PM.

 

Cheers!