chrismacleavy

Good answer, my friend. That tells me what I need to know.

I’ll stick to what I’ve got ( it’s working well, I’m just always considering tweaks when I come across them).

Thanks again.

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your thoughts: exactly what I was after.

The API doc can be found here: https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation/

It looks to me like hotlinking is exactly what it does, with the below provided line:

https://api.pexels.com/v1/photos/:id
(Insert an exact photo using its ID).

Is this practical to use for post feature images (I’m pretty sure you can specify dimensions), including acknowledgement of the author as the API requires?

Again, happy with a ‘no’ if it’s a lot of work.

Fixed.

Thank you, sir. I love your work ??

CM

I remember us doing this to the site a while ago.
We went into Settings>>Google Fonts and added a CSS Selector with a *. So this already exists, with the ‘Force Styles Override’ checkbox checked.
Going into the customizer, I’m using Default Typography to tweak paragraph and headings to different sizes and weights within that font, but yeah, the font in a bulleted list is still completely different.

Here’s a thought: we’ve also gradually built this custom CSS over the years (in the Author customizer):

blockquote {
position: relative;
border: none;
}
blockquote:before {
content: “\201C”;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: -15px;
font-family: Revalia;
color: #A9A9A9;
font-size: 70px;
line-height: 45px;
}
table, th, td {
border: 0px;
padding: 5px;
}
.blog .post-content,
.archive .post-content,
.search .post-content {
text-align: left;
border-radius: 35px;
}
.post-meta,
.post-meta a,
.post-meta a:link,
.post-meta a:visited {
color: #A9A9A9;
font-family: Roboto Slab;
font-size: 92%;
}
body {
-webkit-hyphens: none;
-moz-hyphens: none;
hyphens: none;
}
.max-width {
max-width: none;
}
.featured-image img {
border-radius: 15px 15px 0 0;
overflow: visible;
padding-bottom: 0;
height: auto;
line-height: 0;
text-align: center;
}
img, a img {
position: static;
height: auto;
width: auto;
object-fit: contain;
}
a {
position: static;
}
.entry article {
border-radius: 15px;
}
.dropcap
{
float: left;
font-size: 400%;
font-family: Roboto Slab;
line-height: 100%;
}
.entry.has-post-thumbnail article {
border-radius: 0 0 15px 15px;
}
.post-title /*for screens under 700px*/
{
font-size: 25px;
}
@media all and (min-width: 700px) {
.post-title/*for screens over 700px*/
{
font-size: 30px;
}
}

What else can we try?

Hi Ben,

Good question. The font doesn’t change in the editor.
To narrow it down (in case that’s helpful) here’s an example:
– I write some words using a Paragraph block.
– Then, I hover over the top right corner of the block and change the block type to List. – The font remains the same in the editor, but changes to a different font when I preview the changes.

Heading blocks are without error. Quote blocks are fine too.

OK, thanks!
If I come up with anything, I’ll be sure to let you know.

This has caused me some pain as well (my blog uses it fairly heavily). I wrote to Crossway, and their response was that there is ‘no timeframe’ that this is due to be fixed by, although they’re looking into it.

Have you found a good alternative plugin?

PERFECT.
Love it. Thanks again!

Hi Rob,

Looks like it’s working just fine!
Unfortunately it only applies to newly posted articles; the old stuff didn’t come through on Feedly, but I can live with that!

Thanks very much.
Happy ??

CM

Thanks Rob!
I think we might be making progress. Here’s what I’ve done.
– I turned off Photon
– I changed the size to Full in the plugin
– I regenerated all the thumbnails
– I opened feedly.com and checked the feed (showing all posts)

Feedly doesn’t appear any differently to me, but perhaps you can see something different?

Hi Rob, you’re right! There’s a lot of unnecessary junk in there! (I wish I knew how to clean it out…. a task for a later day perhaps).
The featured images used in my articles are 1200×600 (always), so perhaps I need to look for something else.
I left it overnight to see if something needed some time to “take”, but my feedly still has a lack of featuredimages, and still only grabs the images from within the post (if there’s one to grab).
More research required :-/

Thanks Ben, I like it.
The site is becoming quite a mature product now; I like what we’re doing with the place!

Hi Ben,

Apologies for the delayed reply, apparently I didn’t get an email notification that you’d replied.
I’ve decided I’ll be OK with keeping the text as it is, but I’d settle for changing the font colour to make it less obvious. Could I do that instead?

Ok, so that’s kind of amazing.
I saw the incorrect font on both PC and iPhone, and making the change consistently changed the font back and forth. I even saw the incorrect font when WordPress sent me the new post in an email.

Today – after doing nothing – it’s corrected.

Hey man…thanks!! ??

Absolutely.

Here’s an example article: https://www.chrismacleavy.com/2017/01/what-im-reading-in-feburary-022017/

The table is 2 columns (left for text and right for images).
On the last row, I’ve changed the title row to <td colspan=”2″>. Once I add that in, all text in subsequent cells changes for the worst.
Like this:
<tr>
<td colspan=”2″>
<h2>Dandelion Fire (100 Cupboards, Book #2): N. D. Wilson</h2>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
I thoroughly enjoyed book one of the 100 cupboards; I think it’s my favourite kind of fantasy. In a very The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe -esque mix of the wondrous meeting the ordinary, this is the ongoing story of Henry York, a boy who discovered in his bedroom portals to one hundred different worlds.
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

Remove all the colspan=”2″ attributes, and everything is fine.

WEIRD.

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