Image Resize
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Hi Murray,
I was a systems developer before I retired and I have never heard of a beta being deliberately released to production to see whether it worked or not.
Yep. Lots of us spent lifetimes in relevant careers before they changed beta to mean “the free beta-level-as-of-right-now version, generating revenue from ads inserted into the beta users’ product.”
It’s brilliant, really. We’re the dumbbells. We didn’t come up with it. Although, even if we were low enough to use people as unwitting beta dupes, we wouldn’t dump an alpha on them like this AND downgrade the product they’ve come to rely on. Sorta bait-and-switchy, ain’t it?
I’m hanging my hat on the super-deluxe visual editor and image library manager in upgrades coming soon at cost, like the editor and Moxie Manager you can see in the interactive examples at TinyMCE.com (where I noted with interest that the More Colors feature is gone, as of right now, but there’s already an upgrade available for that).
I’d bet that lots of ignorant dimwits like me would pay a nice fee to be guaranteed that we’d never have to use a beta, that we’d always be kept on a stable release, and still accept ads! That’s how smart WE are. (I doubt that would be practical for them, or profitable.) Until we learned that it wouldn’t prevent downgrades.
Here in freeworld, even “paying customers” are not paying for a stable release or downgrade protection. They’re paying for options (“upgrades”) on top of a beta.
Go Premium — The last upgrade your blog will need [as of right now]. Get WordPress.com Premium for just $99 per year. And be a really clever beta tester.
Better still, dummy, build your professional business e-commerce operation on a beta! Go Business for $299 per year. “Hassle-free eCommerce,” it says. Hey, blowing up your system of deploying images, cancelling your convenient access to the full range of text color options, and going back to being an HTML web author is not a “hassle,” (it’s an “improvement”) in an environment where the published or previewed product is not reliably what you painstakingly designed. That is, make money slower on your site.
In the descriptions for these plans, there is nothing saying you’re assured of a stable release.
It just gets more fun the more you look at it. As part of selling you the Business Plan, they have three examples shown on the page, as of right now. One of them is “IBM JOBS,” the blog of ibm.jobs (a spawn of ibm.com).
Click it and (“as of right now”) it goes to La Vie au Zoo, a wonderful name and a beautiful site — but don’t go there on an empty stomach. Some of the theme names are fun, too. This one is on “Imbalance 2.”
Gotta love it and and find the humor in it, because editing images isn’t fun anymore.
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(I doubt that would be practical for them, or profitable.)
i.e., relative to what they are getting from the beta approach.
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Oh, sorry. It did not get fixed. Click the image and it goes to IBM. Click the flag/tab on the image, and it goes to bartur.wordpress.com, La Vie au Zoo.
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I’m not sure if this question has been answered already. So it appears the % system is not coming back which is a bummer but in the Visual editor version we used to see the height and width pixel numbers. It would be really helpful if that could come back as I do not save my images in the WordPress media library. It’s really difficult to keep switching back and forth between Visual and Text mode to see what the size is. Is it coming back?
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Your “improvements” improved nothing. They just make everything more complex and, ultimately, useless. Please return to us the freedom to size and hover caption pictures.
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@balsamean and @varewulf: I FINALLY got a tooltip to work using the text editor. Phew!
I haven’t finished the post yet, but see the tooltip there when I hover via “preview.” Hopefully when I hit “publish” they’re actually preserved and appear in the final product!
(Such a cumbersome, annoying process, and I’m so disheartened to learn they’re not giving us back an easy way to border our pics!. ) -
Hi guys,
after the latest changes, when I link an image hosted somewhere else, the auto-resize function does not seem to work. Moreover if I add a caption, it gets lost when I publish the post.
Do you have any hint to fix the situation?By the way, I don’t have any form of editor to crop / resize /flip the image taken from different URLs.
At this stage, WP would become totally useless :(
Thanks in advance.
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hi gracejiyoung,
i have problems with new system wordpress because i can’t put no more the images in most largest size, like this:
http://maurosantini.wordpress.com/mauro-santini/biografia/
can you tell me if there in any way to do it?
thanks, mauro
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For those who’ve been following this Image Resize Fiasco, apparently NextDraft’s Dave Pell hasn’t got the memo (or did he?). Here’s what he wrote today on his newsletter: ‘I’d like to take a moment and thank my sponsor and underwriter, the fine folks at Automattic (runners of WordPress dot com, hosts of the fantastic WordPressVIP, and makers of several other excellent products — including my synchronized note-taking app of choice: SimpleNote). They didn’t ask me to thank them. Amazingly, they never ask anything of me. But they support NextDraft and keep it coming to you for free. I can’t thank them enough.’ Just a coincidence or is this battle being fought now on the PR front too?
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They didn’t ask me to thank them. Amazingly, they never ask anything of me.
says Dave Pell.
I say, “They didn’t ask me if I wanted them to change the editor. They didn’t ask anyone. And, amazingly, they never do.”
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Oh, silly me. I forgot that THEY know what’s best for us, because
Yes, our noble leaders have us covered. With what is uncertain, but they “know change can be difficult and it takes time to adapt to new features.”
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Sick as this is, I actually look forward to reading this thread…which means it will probably be shut down later today! ;)
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Hello dev team
Please bring back the advanced image settings. I hope you don’t dare to bring them back for 5$/month!
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@maurosantini-
Hi there,
I have messaged you privately regarding this matter. Please reply to me from there if you have any further questions!
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I wrote my first full post today under the new image system and I must say that it was something of a disaster. It took over an hour to get my photos all lined up and looking right behind the scenes…and then they looked entirely different when I finally published the post. It used to be so easy and now the whole thing is wrecked.
I’m going to give it a couple weeks and then begin looking for a new home for my website.
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dear grace, thanks for your reply, but i can’t find it… please tell me where it would be… in my hotmail? it isn’t there… (email visible only to moderators and staff)
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