jsallen

OK, now I understand that the reason the button doesn’t work is that WordPress has the current revision stored online, but this is not the same one I am seeing on the screen when looking at the post. What needs to happen is for WordPress to refresh the version on the screen when I return to editing, instead of using the version in the browser.

I have found that I can get back to the most recent version by closing the post — going back to the Dashboard of list of posts — then reopening the post for editing. But I shouldn’t have to do that. Seeing the older version is very confusing and makes it look as though I’ve lost my work and can’t recover it.

The selection across two revisions at once really needs to change.

And yet another — the one-line caption and alternate text fields when editing media. They’re cumbersome when a longer caption or alternate text is needed — a picture is, as has been said, worth 1000 words and I probably won’t use that many but 10 may not be enough. Adding to the difficulty, I get inconsistent behavior when dragging to select in these fields — sometimes, the caption will scroll using the mouse, sometimes when the selection reaches the edge of the field, it stops even if the caption is longer, and I have to use the keyboard. Is the goal here to enforce a style with snappy little twitter-ish short captions? What if a longer one really is needed?

And here’s another problem: when adding a new image that has the same filename as another, the Media Library does add a number to the end of the filename to keep them distinct — but does not update the thumbnail, so it is sometimes not possible to tell which is which. Square thumbnails that do not show the entire image also are frustrating. How about resizing images so they fit within the thumbnail boundaries?

Sorry, I don’t know how to help you with that.

Just use the embedding code on the YouTube site. See for example

https://john-s-allen.com/blog/?p=3121

Vimeo too:

https://john-s-allen.com/blog/?p=3724

Oh, I want do delete that previosu post. should have used backticks.

And another thought — I discovered that if I select all content in the Wrod file including comments, the comments do show up at the bottom of the post in WordPress, but instead of having an <a> tag, which would link each one to the text, they have an <a href="..." tag.

I mean comments in the word doc, created using the Word commenting feature, which appear in the right margin in Word 2007 and 2010.