{"id":32645,"date":"2018-12-25T11:06:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T16:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=32645"},"modified":"2018-12-26T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T22:55:35","slug":"widgets-for-idjits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/12\/widgets-for-idjits.html","title":{"rendered":"Widjits for Idjits"},"content":{"rendered":"

The software folks at WordPress, which provides the backend template for ArtsJournal, have updated the procedure for posting AJ blogs. The update is meant to simplify the process with widgets so that idiots can use it with blindfolds on. Unfortunately, my tireless staff finds the new procedure a helluva lot less helpful than supposed and has dubbed it \u201cwidjits for idjits.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"HUH?

HUH? The Straight Up staff ponders the WordPress update.<\/p><\/div>\n

The new procedure is workable for posting vanilla layouts like the one you are reading now. But it\u2019s a nightmare of trial and error to post a layout like this one<\/a>, or\u00a0this one<\/a>,\u00a0or this one<\/a>, or this one<\/a>\u00a0(to say nothing of the added bells & whistles that go with them). So\u00a0for now, while we try to climb the idjit learning curve, it’s straight vanilla for us until we get the hang of it or hang ourselves first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The software folks at WordPress, which provides the backend template for ArtsJournal, have updated the procedure for posting AJ blogs. The update is meant to simplify the process with widgets so that idiots can use it with blindfolds on. Unfortunately, my tireless staff finds the new procedure a helluva lot less helpful than supposed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,4,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-main","9":"category-media","10":"category-news","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shortcuts.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32699,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32645\/revisions\/32699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}