Jason R. Johnston

Twentig 1.2.5 is exactly right! Thank you.

Twentig 1.2.5 saves the day! Thank you.

You’ve stated in another question that you will “add an option to choose the hero layout for the Custom Post Types in the upcoming release” which should satisfy this question of mine. Thank you ??

Awesome! That should solve the issue of the featured image. Thank you ??

Now, hopefully, you’ll be able to make it so that the featured image can ALSO be a featured video. ??

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Jason R. Johnston.

I want a single portfolio page to have it’s featured image be applied as a full screen cover, like how it can be on single pages.

See this page? https://www.jasonrjohnston.com/about/

The way the featured image is displayed as a full page cover image?

I want that to be an option to be applied to single portfolio pages like here: https://www.jasonrjohnston.com/portfolio/buckn-crazy-heartbreak-song/

Is that possible? Thanks!

A video banner, like how a featured image appears, as shown on posts and pages on my website that I’ve linked.

That worked! Thanks so much!

That worked! Thank you.

Does it have something to do with all the cover blocks I’m using?

Hi, Tammie.

Gutenberg is a modern remix of the WordPress WYSIWYG editor and the classic code editor. I like how simple it is on the outside, but how robust it is when you dig into the menus.

I decided a few weeks ago to divide my multisite into several single site installs, and as I was migrating sites I noticed Gutenberg and tried it, loved it, and decided to completely separate my blog from my portfolio and make it its own site specifically to utilize Gutenberg for writing content in stead of having to deal with the Visual Composer editor that came with the theme I use on my main portfolio website.

I have since been learning Gutenberg by manually converting the majority of my old blog posts to Gutenberg. Trial by fire. And Gutenberg holds up just fine. I’ve manually converted my posts before whenever I changed themes and they came with their own proprietary editor…but Gutenberg is the best and it comes with WordPress. I would much rather leave Visual Composer to the portfolio sites, and have a clean, minimalistic WordPress install and just use Gutenberg for all my content creation. I’ve only used it for a few days and I don’t want to go back to the old ways.

For me, it’s like converting from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X: FCPX had it’s issues at first, but even in its infancy it was leaps and bounds more robust than FCP7. Everyone who uses other editors like Visual Composer, and those theme and plugin developers, aren’t going to like it. Sure, you’re going to piss off all the ludites, so you offer the legacy editor as a plugin, which is fine. But…

Times are changing and Gutenberg is the modern, easier, faster, better way to create and publish content for WordPress.

Everything is easier. Embedding content is cleaner, placing blocks is awesome, I can get my hands dirty in code if I want to without leaving the WYSIWYG environment, headings are easier to deal with, everything is easier to format, the interface is clean and minimalistic and pretty, it’s well organized.

I haven’t had issues with plugins yet but I know Yoast SEO works fine with it.

I want to see WordPress 5 come along with a brand new 2018 or 2019 native theme that embraces Gutenberg. That’s what I want to blog with, and besides a few small plugins, it’s all I need. I’ve been using WordPress since at least v2.3 (if not earlier) in 2008 and I remember upgrading to 2.5 that year. So, I’m a long-time user of WordPress and Gutenberg is the best thing you have done.

My blog is located at https://blog.jasonrjohnston.com/ and everything from 2014 to this year has been rebuilt using Gutenberg. I’m waiting to see what the new default theme will be come WordPress 5. Cheers!

This was posted by culvejc 2 weeks ago which answers my problem. Thanks all!

I found your post on Google, and figured out a painfully simple solution on my own.

<!-- User Start -->

<?php if ( $user_ID ) :

// here's the kicker
global $user_identity;
// really. that's it. ?>

Welcome <b><?php echo $user_identity; ?></b>!
( <a href="/wp-login.php?action=logout">Log Out</a> | <a href="/wp-admin/profile.php">Profile</a><?php wp_register(); ?> )

<?php else : ?>

Welcome <b>Guest</b>!
( <a href="/wp-login.php">Log In</><?php wp_register(); ?> )

<?php endif; ?>

<!-- User End --></a>

Easy enough, right? Cheers.

THIS is what I was looking for. Thanks!

No, that doesn’t seem to work.