johnjohnston
johnjohnston
Liked a tweet by Matt Mullenweg (Twitter) Can we all agree that giant per-post image headers look terrible on most blogs? It’s been a curse of default WP themes past few years, too. We need it to be easier to have posts without image headers and even without titles. Mostly, sometime th... johnjohnston.info
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gregmoore
gregmoore

@johnjohnston See also: the all too meaningless image headers on Substack, Medium, etc.

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artkavanagh
artkavanagh

@gregmoore @johnjohnston When I moved all my posts from Medium, I took pleasure in removing all the barely relevant images I had previously added because the conventional wisdom was that you needed graphics to make the posts eye-catching.

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johnjohnston
johnjohnston

@artkavanagh I think medium is a place to find the worst offenders;-) But one of my favourite bloggers always uses them, carefully chosen or more often created, so there are exceptions.

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artkavanagh
artkavanagh

@johnjohnston Oh, there are certainly exceptions, and some excellent photos and illustrations are used in blogs. But Medium posts tend to look unfinished without a header picture so it always felt as if there was pressure to find a vaguely suitable image, and it was always an afterthought.

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