can't get pictures to line up with text – among other problems….!
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My annual ‘I hate this stuff!’ complaint…. :-)
I just update my blog once a year for last year’s changes in the garden. I’m ready to give up on this stuff! I cannot get the pictures I’ve added (and old pictures to rearrange) to line up with the related text! I’ve spent two days of frustration, much bad language, and rising blood pressure! I downloaded Window’s Live Writer – I can get things to look right there but when I click on the Update button, it’s all out of line in the updated post again. I’ve read the the alignment stuff in the support section and reviewed timethief’s advice on my – slightly different -questions from last year. I’m also baffled by the support info on autosave since I cannot figure out how to find this listing op 25 revisions that is supposed to be there….
The bit I’ve been fighting with is in the Front Garden section on ‘the moat bed’, talking about the wisterias.
I think this may be the year I just give up and delete the whole thing.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignment
The alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that’s centered without text on either side of it.
Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.
Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.
Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).
If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.
To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the Text (HTML) editor after each image/text pair:
<div style="clear:both;"></div> -
re: post and page revisions
If the post was created on the dashboard of your own blog at Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New then you ought to be able to recover a lost post or page from revisions if needs be.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
See also if applicable > restoring from trash http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#restoring-from-trash(If you are referring to a Page then see here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-revisions/)
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I have read that alignment link – and the more relevant one about Media alignment. I can get things to look right in the visual editor but when I click Update, it all goes screwy again! One thing I want to do is to have two pictures side by side. The support section includes this statement: ‘Make sure the images are small enough that they will both fit on one line, including borders and margins’ – but does not tell you what ‘small enough’ is or what borders and margins are… When I use the proportional scaling thing by clicking on the picture, I can make them small enough to line up on the same line – BUT when I post it, they’re back to being out of line. Beyond words frustrating!!
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One thing I want to do is to have two pictures side by side.
See here:
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels)
The maximum content width is 585.
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/If you want two images to be side by side on the same line start by setting the alignment of both images to left.
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Re the revisions, that page says :’look for the Revisions in the Publish module, and click the Browse link:’ I can’t find ‘the Publish module’ to find the Revisions! All I see is the Update button in the visual editor under the one where you click to see what the edited post is going to look like (which never looks right….) Where am I supposed to be looking to see this Publish m
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Look at this image please and know that it is depicting the Publish module http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/
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You don’t understand… I’ve tried the both pictures aligned left – didn’t work. I have followed everything that support page says to do – and it doesn’t work!!!
It would be useful for the support page to tell you where to go to find the maximum width info! I used the scaling adjustment on the pictures to get them small enough to line up in the visual editor – but they didn’t line up in the post.
I have see that ‘image’ of the publish module on that support page – my point is I can’t find it when I’m on the dashboard editing the post – Where IS it?!
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It occurs to me that perhaps a blog site is not suitable for what I’m doing….? I’m not making new posts (other than the annual to-do list) but updating the original content. Perhaps the blog software can’t handle that….? Is what I need an actual website, where the site has relatively fixed content that just gets changed or added to from time to time….?
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It would be useful for the support page to tell you where to go to find the maximum width info!
Scroll to the bottom of your detailed theme description page at link I provided above: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels)
The maximum content width is 585.I have see that ‘image’ of the publish module on that support page – my point is I can’t find it when I’m on the dashboard editing the post – Where IS it?!
The Publish module appears in the top right hand corner of every post and page in the editor.
Perhaps the blog software can’t handle that….? Is what I need an actual website, where the site has relatively fixed content that just gets changed or added to from time to time….?
A blog is a website. Specifically, a blog is a post based website that’s attractive to search engines as most are frequently updated with fresh content in published posts – not pages. Pages are for static content that rarely if ever changes and Pages don’t have RSS feeds like Posts do so search engines aren’t strongly attracted to them.
A website is a Page based structure and any WordPress blog can be restructured to become a website. http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
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I still think the support page needs to tell you that, to find the width requirements, to go to the the specs at the bottom of the theme page – and give directions on where that is.
I still don’t see that publish module. All I see on the top right when I’m on the page that says Edit Post for the post I’m trying to change are dropdown menus; one saying screen options and one saying Help.
So Pages are more appropriate for what I’m doing by the sounds of it – but probably would do nothing to solve the problems I’m having re aligning photos and text….?
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I finally got the pictures and text to stay in line by using Ctrl + enter to bring the text in line with the pictures using Windows Live Writer and then clicking on Update.
I still have no idea where that Publish module thing is….
I’m afraid to start the next changes in case they’re as bad! The jury is definitely still out on whether I abandon this project entirely or not!
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Blogging here is easy. Farting around with formatting is NOT, as you’ve noticed. To simplify things, why not simply center all pictures, making them large? That way the text goes under them instantly without you having to do anything.
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raincoaster – you’re quite right about the ‘farting around with fomating’ not being fun! I now have a new problem! I finally got the pictures I was having problems with to appear properly in the blog BUT when I go back to the Edit Post page on the dashboard, they are back to being all messed up there and, if I post a new change somewhere else, it messes up the photos and text I was originally having problems with! AARRGH!!!
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