davidgerard

We want to inform you that “Custom CSS” is a premium feature of our plugin.

I use custom CSS as a part of core WordPress!

To be clear: are you telling me that WP Dark Mode purports to put built-in features of core WordPress behind a paywall? That’s quite a remarkable thing for a plugin to do.

Never mind, user error – found it! “Appearance->Customise->Blog posts->Single post” and select style 4 under “General”. Sorry about that ??

And thanks to the Automattic team for their responses. You have made it extremely clear that my original review is correct and that it remains a necessary warning to users as to what behaviour they should expect from Automattic going forward. Thanks!

If Jetpack will suddenly irreversibly block my own stats on my own server unless I pay ￡14 to see the output of my own nginx logs, then this is an indication that Jetpack will do the same to other features in the future whenever it possibly can.

Jetpack has destroyed our trust. This is not a per-site issue. It is precisely the sort of thing that future users should be warned about in reviews.

Animesh, you have already answered other users on this precise issue. You know already that this is what users have an issue with. Your response here therefore comes across as disingenuous.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by davidgerard.

This appears to have been fixed. Thanks to whoever cleared this one up ??

ok! Last night’s email headline linked to my post directly, not via public-api. We’ll see if the next one’s OK, but this could be fixed now.

Looking back through previous subscriber emails (I always subscribe myself, and I’m now glad I do), the header in the Nov 16 email correctly links directly to the blog – but the header in the Nov 17 email tries going to public-api.wordpress.com and doesn’t work.

I’m guessing someone at Jetpack thought it would be useful to collect click-through data – but got the link wrong.

I’ve established that my readers do like clicking through to the original post! ??

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by davidgerard.

Looks like there’s no way to do it in the child theme (since the child functions.php is loaded first), I would indeed need to hack into the base theme, which I’ve been avoiding (they didn’t make the relevant function overridable). How annoying. But, as I noted, I might leave it to tempt people to click.

Yeah, I appreciate I’m asking for the opposite of what most people would want – excerpts on the front page, full posts in the email.

One thing I’ve noticed with the excerpt method: I end up with a gratuitous spare “Read more ?” on that front-page excerpt. Livable-with, but slightly annoying. I suppose it’s an additional cue to the reader.

Glad you like it ??

Sorry, that was an unduly snappy answer – you did in fact answer the question I asked fully and effectively.

I tried the excerpt method today and it worked as expected. I’ll continue and see how it goes.

I was hoping for something like a tick-box (“send the entire post in email”), but I appreciate that every new user option is a problem in itself.

That workaround would work, but is extra faff that shouldn’t be necessary – Jetpack is supposed to make less work, not more.

The Coffee2Code category images plugin seems to work with WP 2.1.

I note it doesn’t say it supports WP 2.1 – just WP 2.0. I’m assuming that’s why I can’t get it working either, and why I’m looking for an alternative.

rudolf45: that looks like just what I was after! I’m now tweaking the site … https://factsite.co.uk/test/