Sigh. Here we go again.
Readers are still having various issues with commenting on the blog, the WordPress “Happiness Engineers” don’t seem to be of much help, and I’m not finding any modern themes that strike me as attractive and efficient for a guy who likes to write a few posts with art per week.
The Block Editor continues to be an impediment to thinking and writing, or writing and thinking (they aren’t always happening in their proper order). With this post I’m using the Classic Block, which means that I wrote the hed, typed a slash into the empty text box, selected the Classic Block from the popup menu, and then began writing the post.
That’s a couple of unnecessary steps involved in creating every single post going forward. But with its Classic-style menu at the top of things it is slightly more familiar than hewing strictly to the Block Environment, which is a veritable minefield laced with Bouncing Bettys that pop up and annoy the mortal fuck out of me while I’m trying to just bang out some word count for giggles.
The next thing is to insert a piece of art, so let’s see how that goes. It being the first day of December I’m selecting a pic of today’s brutal snowstorm, which failed to eventuate. Such is life in the Upper Chihuahuan Desert. Here goes.
There is an unfamiliar “Insert Media” button in the menu, with camera and musical iconography. So let’s go with that.
OK, that seemed relatively straightforward. Hit the button, find the art, size and align, add a caption. Now let’s save the post and see what we have going on here.
THE NEW WHEELED ORDER 