Asides

Aside

It’s been a while, right? Messing with asides. I mean, trying. I realised that I don’t post as much as I used to on CTTS because I feel I have to write an article each time. So it ends up on Facebook. Which is sad, because stuff goes into Facebook to die a few days later.

New WordPress Dashboard

So, here we are. I’ve known for some time (as I was proofreading a book in French on WordPress) that drastic changes were lying ahead for the WordPress admin screens. Today on WordPress.com, we’re discovering them — and I’m typing my first post in the new interface.

I’ll wait a few days to decide if I like it or not. Change is always disruptive, so the first reaction of resistance or reject should not be taken seriously. Already, I see things I like, from a functional point of view.

New WordPress Admin Dashboard

Choose Header Image From Flickr

The one thing I really hate when I need to upload a photograph (for my profile, or here, a header image for the new theme I’m trying out) is that I have to upload it.

Most of my photos are online. I can find them in Flickr way faster than on my hard drive. And the connection between the server and Flickr is most certainly better than my crappy ADSL upload rate.

Why can’t we have “Provide URL” as well as “Upload Photo” in all these cases?