In an attempt to somehow get the reblog button to show up in the scroll, I switched templates four times in about two hours today.
Apparently, REBLOG doesn’t work while scrolling on any template and what is more, a lot of templates have some very strange formatting I’ve never seen before. I couldn’t even recover the format I was previously using. It has vanished.
I hate to say this, but they are doing it to us again. I have no idea exactly what they are doing, but the software is changing. Without getting complicated, WordPress’s upgrades give me a migraine.
Be aware that if it changed on my blog, it’s likely to change on yours. Maybe not immediately, but eventually, so don’t be surprised when it occurs. I hoped it might be that specific template, but the same thing was true on every template I tried.
I put a note at the top of my WIDGETS column explaining that if you want to use REBLOG, you have to click on the title for that blog. You won’t find a reblog button while scrolling. Also, the bizarre spacing issues are back again and your choices for headings are large (which is the same as ‘Normal’) and small, which is too small and sets the title tight against the following paragraph making it not only hard to see but unattractive. I yearn for the day when you could indicate font size using points.
NONE of the newer templates let you use the full wide of the page. They are all scrunched into a smaller panel, probably to accommodate phone users, The problem is, for art and photography blogs, it means you can’t show off your work properly.
I have fought the good fight and lost. One of these days, I think they really ARE going to push me out.
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A LITTLE SOMETHING WITH WORDPRESS – Marilyn Armstrong 
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The one I am using is called Hemingway Rewritten (can’t imagine why) and there are a few others that seem to be similar in style. It’s free, that’s why I picked it.
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I tried Hemingway rewritten. Keep what you have because the new version is narrower and the fonts are all weird sized. If you are lucky, you can keep what you have and maybe it won’t collapse. I’ve had a bunch of them basically collapse. It’s infuriating.
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Yes, it works fine for me right now so I won’t risk a change.
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I thought it was just me. I can’t reblog anybody and I’ve lost a bunch of ppl again that I can’t get to on wp. Yay wp you make me so happy. NOT
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I went through my list the other day and found all the missing ones and adjusted everyone. But I’m not getting notified by a lot of people — like Cee — and it’s making it difficult to follow them. I can’t FIND them.
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I can’t either. I tried typing their name in reader and that isn’t working either.
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I am continually frustrated with what they consider to be ‘upgrades.’
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They are usually downgrading. They don’t improve anything, but they make things that WERE working, stop working.
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exactly and just after I’ve been able to overcome or work around their last change
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I find it annoying that the writing is scrunched into the middle of the page too. It is probably as you say, for the benefit of phone users but I’d like a bit more flexibility in how I format my page too. So far I don’t seem to have lost reblog.
No use complaining though, we’d probably just get an “OK Boomer”.
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For those of us who post photographs and other art stuff, it makes the quality of our work hard to see. Since I can’t do anything to fix it, I’ll deal with it as well as possible. It’s just that each year, we get less for the money we pay.
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