Alex T.

Hello @threadi, I already have the ability to import individual files by URL into WP. There are several plugins that do this. But that’s timeconsuming when you have a bunch of pics. I want to create a new directory in my photo management server (It’s called Photoprism) and be able to upload them to wordpress. I have thousands of pics in photoprism. i just want to be able to publish a few at a time not move them all to wordpress. I hope this makes sense.

So workflow:

1. choose the pics I want to publish in PP.
2. put them them in a new folder.
3. Click to upload the files to a folder inside WP’s wp-content directory.
4. Use the ADD FROM SERVER plugin to import into WP’s Media Library.

The goal is avoid having to first download the files from PP to local and then upload to WP.

Hello, thank you for your replies. I’ve been able to setup a webdav account with my share hosting account, targeting a specific directory. Then I use the ADD FROM SERVER plugin to imoprt into the Media Library.

So for whoever facing same issue: I never did find a plugin that adds webdav functionality to WordPress. I was just lucky that my host (Chemicloud) already has a webdav server installed.

@threadi Webdav definitely works on https. I am not sure it even works on http but i could be wrong.

Hello

I just looked at the page from which created the screen recording for you.

Turns out that a gap is added to below EVERY paragraph in the post and not just the paragraph that was playing with. Now I realize why the page becomes so unwieldy.

Hi @jordesign

Hi?@polaatx?– that seems super weird. Are you able to click back into those spaces and start typing? Or are they just empty gaps?

No. Not possible to type in the new space created. Just empty gaps.

Also there is nothing in the list view accounting for the new space created.

I made this screen recording to show you.

It might seem not a big deal. But once you edit a page quite a bit, the gaps get so big that on your screen you see just a couple of paragraphs with enormous space above and below them. The only way to restore the page is to update and reload the page.

Many thanks.

@jordesign thanks so much for your response. I made it work. I created a theme for that catergory. I guess that solves my problem: instead of using the Term Description block, I just put in a paragraph block and type my description inside the template. In other words, that template becomes my EDIT CATEGORY page. Weird work-around but I guess it works. Or does this work-around create other issues?

Hello @foosantos, thanks for your reply. Is there a list of features of this plugin somewhere? If just want to see what is offered.

Hello @jordesign, thanks a lot for your response.

Yes, getting stuck with the limitations of the category / tag pages is a pain in the neck. We made the decision to make some categories starting points for our travel site (and the anchor of our breadcrumbs) but now we have this white elephant in middle of an FSE site. Having gotten used to using blocks, dealing with Classic is not comfortable. For example, I write html code in the Text mode. Then as soon as I switch to Visual mode, it just erases whatever it does not like. Aggghh!!!! (Is there a way to stop it from doing that???)

For what it is worth – the Site Editor?does?allow you to set up templates for specific taxonomy terms – so if you wanted more control over content and layout of certain taxonomy archives – you could add those separately.

Could you please explain more? I can create a block template for a specific category?

Here, for example, is the category that is at the top of all our breadcrumbs. https://escapefromtehran.com/category/authentic-iran-travel-tour/

Hi?@properlypurple, many thanks for the video. It was helpful.

I understand there is a Gutenberg block called Term Description. But when I edit a category page, it still pulls up with a Classic editor, correct?

It just seems strange to me why Classic is still there.

We switched to the 2023 Theme from Astra Theme. Our performance on Google Pageinsights went up by 10%.

But many things are messy and new Css needs to be written.

For example, Custom Html block where we stored google map iframes are all aligned left now, instead of center as they where before.

Hi, do you mean every time I want to add a new map from, say, Mapbox, i need to add the API again?

Many thanks.

Hi @properlypurple,

About Category and Tag pages still using Classic text editor

See the screenshot below of the edit category page in a fresh install of 2023 Theme.

It is still using classic, which is surprising after all this talk about blocks. Is there a good reason that Category and Tag pages are still not using Gutenberg?

Is there a way to turn these pages into Gutenberg? We made the decision (perhaps bad decision) to use the category pages as the starting points in our website but lack of Gutenberg reduces things we can do with the page.

About switching to block theme

The young man whom I asked to use the 2023 theme is understandably resistant. He says that using blocks is good for frontend editors but reduces his ability to customize the site. So, if he is going to do the frontend of the site, why are we switching to a block theme? he asks.

My response is that we want to go to the direction that wordpress is going and not resist new techonology.

Hello @properlypurple, customizations we’ve done so far is the addition of new post types. For example, we have a gallery post type:

https://escapefromtehran.com/galleries/plastic-palm-trees-and-korean-soaps-on-the-ruins-of-silk-road/

As you can see, the way the text and thumbs are displayed is all customized on the backend.

The person who created this post type is a recent IT graduate and relatively new to WordPress. He had to learn how to create a new post type.

Now he is, understandably, resistent to learning to do all this in a block theme and learn to use FSE. He says the backend of FSE is entirely new and requires a lot of learning.

But I’m thinking why postpone what is the future. I myself resisted Gutenberg inially and even had plugin installed to disable Gutenberg entirely. But eventually I began using it and now I don’t want to use Classic at all.

In fact, I was disappointed to see the the Category and Tag pages still use Classic text editor in the 2023 theme. Why keep the classic editor after all this talk about using blocks?

hi @properlypurple

many thanks. I’m checking out Ollie and Variations.

Another reason I’m focusing on community themes is that with Astra it has its own way of doing things. So customization has to be done to fit Astra. So over time we become more and more invested in Astra and more difficult to switch away..

with community themes I am thinking there is a standard followed and switching themes , if it becomes necessary in the future, would not require as much redoing of our customization.

is my thinking correct?

It seems the disappearance of alt tags and image captions happened only to the last few posts so I manually redid them. Never figured out what happened. Thanks for your attention.