What one feature do you wish WordPress.com had?
Topic #154:
Ok. This is one is a bit of a cheat, as it’s kinda, sorta, my job to find ways to make WordPress.com better. But since you’ve been using WordPress all these many weeks, to make all those fine posts, every day (or week) even when you didn’t really want to, why not write a post about either: a) Your feature wishlist (what do you wish WordPress.com did?) or b) Your top complaints, especially as it regards being a frequent blogger (which all of you are).
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Link up tools for hops/memes!!!!
I second the request!
template customization is allllllll i need.
LinkWithin!
More drag and drop widgets would be good – I am just too dumb to figure out all the HTML stuff to do this manually…
Also I’d like to see the ‘new post’ fullscreen view go back to having access to all the editing tools not just the minimalist tool bar in the new version…think we may have fixed something here that wasn’t that broken…
http://duhduhduhderpyface.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wordpress-list/
Basically, QuickPress needs some fixing, really badly at the moment.
May be have a auto category finder, some thing like the auto tag that wp have right now, for a new posts
Ability to add the Google Analytics code to the free blogs as well. I believe the blog software at wordpress.org has that option but the wordpress.com blogs dont have that. The short-coming of this is that I’m unable to understand the geographic reach that my blog has. I’m impressed with the amount of stats wordpress offers at the moment but if there was a pie-chart or something that could give more insights into the reach, it would help.
@Zoya, you can use Flag Counter to know what country your blog visitors are coming from.
The ability to adjust or tweak the theme without having to know html, css etc. I’ve designed websites for a number of years and I love WordPress because for the most part it’s not necessary to know the language that drives it. I would like more control over the layout, design, fonts etc though. I know different themes have options to change but it would be nice to have more of those or more ways to really customise your blog to make it unique.
I second this one! CSS completely baffles me – and I have tried to use the help and forums within WP, but haven’t been too successful… I know basic HTML, but for whatever reason the whole CSS thing is just beyond me…
:i’ve not the ability to change anything on my web site and as far as html,css, rss,and pms i’m totally effed.i need help before i total my website.one step at a time maybe i could do this shit.If only wordpress and others alike used picture cards i mite make ago of it..see i’m a retired builder and we use blueprints to work from,just like a picture card .so for dummies like me to understand, some one needs to go the extra yard…..please help ,shithotshirtcompany.com
1. Multi language posting system and multi language commenting system should be improved. Automatic basic translation option should be provided for every post (using google translate).
2. Integration with google analytics, webmaster tools, adsense, amazon affiliates.
3. Theme rating (there are just too many themes for beginners to choose from, which might get them confused) – Most used themes list.
4. Simpler/ easier youtube video embedding.
5. Display Random posts per category – Widget (or) Front page slideshow.
6. Similar posts (at the end) widget.
7. Widget for displaying an image (with a link) in the sidebar.
8. Request for confirmation when ‘Publish/Post’ is clicked. Sometimes, users click it accidentally instead of saving them in drafts.
Destination Infinity
Multi language support and publish confirmation are good ideas I think, besides a confirmation request shoulnd’t be hard to implement
I wish WP would display badges instead of links to things I’m part of – Like British Mummy Bloggers or Tots 100. When HTML is entered as text widget – It displays link instead! Not sure how to change this.
So links with pictures in right column please
Yes, a widget for similar posts would be nice.
D. Infinity, I caution you about the Google translator. It is often inaccurate and will give a literal translation or use a meaning for a word that has multiple meanings. The result is sometimes confusing, sometimes laughable. A person’s real meaning could be completely distorted.
I co-author the Think Outside The Bin blog and wish WordPress had the ability to post to more than one Twitter and Facebook account.
When I use a single photo in my post and then put ta link to it in Facebook or LinkedIn, the photo shows along with the initial verbiage of the piece. A nice little carrot to dangle.
However, when I use a slideshow in my post and then put a link to it in Facebook or LinkedIn, only the initial verbiage of the piece shows. No nice little carrot…
holessence – I think that’s a FB problem rather than a WP problem…
A LibraryThing widget showing book covers from whatever LIbraryThing-account you want to display.
I think an option allowing comments to be edited by the authors in a limited amount of time (say, 5 minutes) would be a nice feature, so in case someone comments something and realizes something is wrong he can correct it by himself.
I would love to have a notes section – it would be great to have a spot for post ideas.
- calendar function to list events & special dates
- table capability
- slide show capability in the header or as a widget
Those are my biggest wishes for WordPress. Thanks a bunch!
I don’t know if this is possible, but what I want is a “log in” window. I manage several WordPress blogs, and going back and forth is a headache. I have to log out, and then go to WordPress.com to log in again. Thank you for the opportunity.
All of the above! PLUS
- how about an index – not just the list of tags and categories, but an alphabetical listing of all the posts?
- let me mention and link to my business and products pages from time to time.
There is another widget I thought of a few weeks ago, but I can’t remember at the moment. I’ll let you know if I think of it again.
wish list:
1. multiple blogs can post on a single facebook account from one account.
2. originator of searches by region of the world (like google blogger does). it is more of a curiousity than anything else.
that’s all for right now. i can think of some later…
ok, I know this isn’t a post…but my only thing I would like changed is this: after you publish a post and notice a typo or want to change or update your post, that is sends out kind of an update or notice email to subsribers. ‘Cuz they get the new post, but don’t know about new changes, which would be kind of nice. Thanks WordPress, you’re the best!
-Tia
When I leave a comment on a post that is likely to get many replies (like this one) I’d like the option to be only be notified by email when someone replies to *just* my comment.
This is NOT because I don;t come back and read a lot of the other comments but because I don;t want to see the 280 emails jamming up my email inbox telling me that someone has commented on this thread.
Oh and for these WP posts by staff, PLEASE PLEASE page numbers so that if I know that I commented on page 7 I don’t have to hit “newer posts” and scan everything until I find it, and a possible reply.
and… in the new dashboard, if you want to type in the text box (main one or title) close to the left hand edge, it seems to make some of the pop out boxes in the far left toolbar jump out and it’s a right pain to try and get them closed again. if they stay open you can’t see what you want to type in the box underneath.
Also, when I add anglo ( ie non usa) english spelling (or dutch or french) to my “add to dictionary” in the spell check, why do these words never show in the drop down suggestion word list at any later date?
(it would make quicker editing for words that have accents for instance, or all the words I spell with a “U” color/colour . or an S instead of a Z etc)
For the rest, yes I am sure I could think of many more improvements, BUT I’m also delighted for all the hard work that WP folks put in behind the scenes already and what they have already achieved. Thanks!
I’m a BIG fan of the “send me an email for replies to my comment only”.
Me too!
It would be great to have the “you would also like” feature, where you show pic of posts related, tht adds traffic to the blog. Great that you are working on new features!
I think I cannot complain as a new blogger posting every day. I love WordPress period.
I really want likes to be available on the stats page! At the moment, the only way I know if a post has been liked is if I check my emails, which I only do about once a week, or I if I happen to look at my own post, which I do even more rarely. People liking what I write is such an encouragement, especially if it only had ten hits, if five of them liked it, I’d love to see this at a glance on my stats page (which I check every day, sometimes more than once… sad I know…)
I want to see the ability to write my blogs in Markdown, a simple markup language readable, by humans and computers. Plugins for WordPress exist.
See http://wp.me/pyx2J-3s for more
I second that request. I would love to move my self hosted WordPress blog to WordPress.com but won’t given that almost all my posts are written in Markdown. It would be easier for me to move my blog to Tumblr (supports Markdown) but Tumblr has performance and stability issues.
List of followers on the sidebar like Blogger has. This would be good as a widget.
Also to enable list of followers like with Blogger and not just email subscription. Follow links much nicer and show who’s reading your blog
This is my number one request.
Yes, yes, yes to this suggestion!
1) This is a really lame writing topic.
2) Add the ability to edit, or even better, DELETE your own comments. It annoys me that I can’t delete my own words.
3) Some basic text format buttons on the comments box would be nice. For instance, it would have been nice to italicize “delete” instead of capitalizing it without resorting to html since I’m far too lazy for that.
4) Add a link to “drafts” under the “posts” sidebar. The only way to get to drafts now is from the main dashboard page. If you’re not on that page (which I rarely am), you have to click on “posts” or “all posts” (which actually go to the same place – a little redundant, don’t you think?), and then click on drafts.
5) This is semantic nitpicking, but since we’re on the subject of the sidebar, I hate the “Feedbacks” link. Some might consider “Feedbacks” to be a countable noun, but I’m not one of those people. I like my English old school. Feedback has always been most commonly accepted as a non-countable noun. Therefore, it is “Feedback” no matter how much you request or receive. Just sayin’.
* Everyone should get whatever fonts/ type kits they please
* Ability to delete own comments on others’ blogs
* “latest posted” and “latest commented” on blogs – sorted by nation/language for instance. It gives a nice overview. Or maybe there is a better way, I haven’t gotten to check subscriptions yet. :*
Sorry if I wrote something that already exists. Please bear with me, for I am new.
I would also like the ability to delete a comment I post on someone else’s blog.
How nice of you to ask! I don’t really want to write a post about this, since it seems like complaining and doesn’t really fit with my vision for my blog, but since you asked I have a few suggestions. BTW, WP has many great features and I confess I’ve not figured them all out yet, so maybe some of these are there and I don’t know about it. Meanwhile, my wish list:
1. The ability to use different fonts, without buying them. Heck, I would even buy them for a minimal fee, but the one time I tried to figure out fonts, I couldn’t.
2. Ability to spell check when writing comments on other’s blogs. Invariably after I click post, I see some horrific spelling error.
3. Ability to delte a comment that I’ve posted on other blogs.
4. One of my widgets has not been working for quite a while – on top posts you can select the number you want displayed, but no matter what I select, it only shows 3. Requests to have this fixed have not helped.
Thanks for asking. Looks like you’re going to be overwhelmed with comments, and maybe a few blogs on this too. Good luck – hope you’re not sorry you asked!
I’d quite like to have a list of all posts somewhere (within the editing function of course) to make it easier to refer to past posts without having to go through all the archived pages … and the older posts within the archived pages. I know the list could be rather lengthy – perhaps within each category could make it simpler – then it’s up to us bloggers to make sure we’ve put them in the right category. Or is this already there and I just haven’t found it???
I would like the ability to include Adsense Ads and I don’t think I’m alone. It’s tough running a small business and every penny earned is helpful in growing the content on our site which is designed to help others.
Yes, I know there is a facility for this but only in certain circumstances and not all small businesses, like hometipster.com, can afford upgrades to allow this functionality.
I’m with you here, as well. I don’t particularly want to run AdSense but I have wanted to join Nuffnang for a while now. While I love WordPress and the security I feel knowing my stuff is safe during a downtime, Blogger allows more freedom in template and design, ads and whatnot. I love writing and always associate WordPress with that but Blogger with fun…
I really can’t complain about WordPress. You’re doing a great job, especially since it’s free. I’m sure whatever complaint I had someone mentioned. Love you guys!
make it easier to add buttons and widgets.
I asked a question in the forums the other day about widgets and no one responded
More choice of fonts, perhaps letting you switch within a post like you can in a Word document.
1) Ability to change font easily through something like a dropdown menu, not having to know CSS, HTML, etc.
2) Add a confirmation message after you hit Publish on a post, cause sometimes I click by mistake and don’t want others to read it yet.
3) Make me able to delete my own comments.
The ability to put facebook like boxes in a sidebar, or in a post or page. Just the ability to incorporate it anywhere would be nice.
Embed Flash videos like from the BBC website. PLEASE!
My response to this topic won’t post until tomorrow (Sunday, midnight-01 EST). Lot of good ideas in the replies.
I wish WP would display badges instead of links to things I’m part of – Like British Mummy Bloggers or Tots 100. When HTML is entered as text widget – It displays link instead! Not sure how to change this
I own a photo blog among others and i think a few image editing options like adding a copyright water mark in bulk would be a good option.
I’m not sure about the web site itself but I do know that I really wish the WordPress app could have its Local Draft option back. When I write something on that I almost NEVER want to publish it straight away. I want to save it to store the post and I’m happy to store it either locally or on the website (if I’m on line, not on an underground train etc) but I definitely want an option to save the post as draft not just publish it.
You can still save drafts in your blog online…i do it all the time for mine! you will find the save drafts button just above the panel that is over the publish button
wordpress.com is doing a very good job for bloggers and readers.Blog page can be made attractive and more fascinating at will this option should be simplified.
I think that circulation of blog is low than we hope.A list of each day shown blogs should be there to select and read quickly the blogs.Very long blogs should be kept in separate
list. to save time and energy of readers.
I have lost my blogs..how can you do that without intimation to me..I am a regular attendie and admirer of wordpress..How can be i a spammer? It is shocking.
that it wld go back to the old way of editing on a doc
I wish that it had the ability to allow us to have ads on our blogs, not just disable the WordPress blogs. Since my site has been getting more traffic lately it’s the reason I left for self-hosting. If WP allowed ads I would have stayed.
It should be possible to blog without date – like in the self-hosted versions.
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(I know it was a topic idea – but I have to answer – sorry
Hmm good idea! One thing I do wish though, off the top of my head, was the ability to integrate Google Analytics to our blog…
I don’t know if my wish is do-able at all … perhaps just in my dream world, but here goes:
Now that they can comment using their FB/Twitter accounts … wouldn’t it be cool if the comments showed up on the post in FB too?! And the other way around.
I have my blog set to post to Facebook [and Twitter], when I post. For some reason, that’s totally beyond me, many people see my link in FB, they go to the blog and read, then they GO BACK to Facebook to comment. These comments of course never show up in the blog.
This is probably too far out, I don’t write code so I wouldn’t be able to say if it’s at all possible. In WP.org there are plugins for this but I don’t know that they function very well..
Well, WP is kinda GREAT with all its flexibility etc n that hardly gives any scope to write a whole post for anything more
but one thing would help a lot if photos once uploaded to the media library could be attached to many diff posts !! Thanks !
Concordo com o que escreveu Destino infinity, vocês vivem mudadando tudo, as vezes piorando, eu acho que as estátisticas pioraram muito, o meu tráfego de visitas idem.
Na hora de reclamar não tem com quem! E tudo fica igual. Cansei de reclamar! Não entram mais links não sei o que houve! No meu blog, e tudo resumido.
Sinceramente estou bem desanimada, as letras ficaram miudas demais, revejam tudo isso por favor!
obrigada Mina!
A link up between .com and .org would be nice, such as a joint Fresh Pressed or tags.
WordPress is so superior already (in particular to Blogger, where I manage of couple of blogs…not my choice of platform.) I think I’ve found ways to do almost everything I’ve ever needed. Bravo!
Oh, and another thing that isn’t really a feature, but since I’ve already done some griping… stop telling me in comment form when I’ve linked to my own blog. I’m well aware that I linked to my own blog since I’m the one doing the linking. I link to other posts on my blog a lot and it’s damn annoying to have to delete a thousand comments from myself telling me that I’ve linked to such and such. Is there a way to disable this? If there is, I haven’t found it yet.
Oh, definitely, yes, please do something about all the pingbacks to my own posts.
I wish we had an option to change the font size (make them bigger, specifically.)
Some themes have smalls fonts and I don’t want to purchase CSS upgrade.
I want to be able to use Google Analytics. It’s the one ting about Blogger that I miss. I know about Flag Counter, but that’s not what I want. My blog isn’t big enough to be international, but I do want to be able to see where my hits are coming from. Google Analytics was great for that, plus it wouldn’t display the information ON your blog page.
Like so many, I think WordPress is a marvel, and my thanks go to all concerned.
Top of my Wish List: I run two blogs, and sometimes I’d like to be able to publish something on one that I’ve already published on the other.
Well, they’re like estranged siblings — no way one can communicate with the other unless i can copy and paste (with a complicated post with lots of pictures tough to do), or just bite the bullet and redo it.
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Aqui temos as melhores funcionalidades, em termos de WP. todos os membros
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pleno e continuo Desenvolvimento. nós temos que agradecer o empenho desta
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I wish wordpress had a design studio which would allow you to design your webpage with drag and drop. You could be able to choose many different layouts and offer all kinds of ahref link options and lots of button options. For example, radio buttons and other types of buttons different sizes and shapes and colors.
How about a widget like the Google Friend Connect ? We could have a WordPress Friend Connect version so we can connect with blog friends and have their shiny gravatars on our blogs for easy access?
Eliz
I’m not going to write a post on my blog about this, but I appreciate you asking what users would like to see and I’d be happy to give my opinion. I would LOVE it if draft posts could be put into different folders within drafts. That way if you had a lot of things in the pipeline that you were working on, you could divide them up into folders by topic/whatever and be able to find them easier.
I think this feature exists but I just can’t work out how to activate it – I have quite a few followers and how do I show them beside my blog … all their happy faces?
to be able to add words to the dictionary/spell checker thing.
I definitely go along with this idea.
One more very little request: To be able to indent in a blog post like you would when writing paragraphs anywhere else.
It would be nice for people commenting on my blog to only have to fill in their name, or log in through facebook. I think a lot of peeps out there don’t want to spread their email address. Now it’s email + name or nothing at all….
I have 3 more to add:
1) I’d like the ability to select the specific tags or categories I would like to display on my site (instead of having an all-or-nothing option).
2) I’d like to be able to format picture caption text using HTML code.
3) On the support side, I would appreciate a collection of printable step-by-step instruction pages on how to complete various tasks within WP (on the site admin side).
All these things being said, I think the WordPress team is truly the best out there, and this *free* blogging product is simply outstanding. I admire that you all seek to engage in continuous improvement, and hope you are finding these comments/suggestions helpful. I would encourage you to offer a future topic along the lines of, “What are we at WordPress doing right, that you all absolutely love?” Everyone should get some well-deserved props now and again.
JAVASCRIPT!!!!! Blogger allows it and it doesn’t hurt them one little bit.
I am very happy working WITH the best blog providing experience going. The operative word is “with”. Sometimes it all leaves me completely in the dust.
About ten years ago I was an intelligent, literate, knowledgeable person. Now that so many are into the computer world, I need re-education. I cannot even intelligently select the widgets I desire on my page because I do not have any idea what most of the cg terms mean, although sometimes they are in a dictionary with alternated meanings. So–
1. A Glossary of invented words or invented meanings for the actual literates who need their dictionaries updated, would be so nice.
2. Careful attention to beginners, which you do provide, to a certain extent, yes, but I think immersion in your world causes you to forget your former world, which is my world, and to fail to realize how GREAT is the leap for some of us.
3. A “daily hints” feed that some of us could opt for, that would feed us, literally, the dumb stuff we somehow should already know.
4. Suggestions, up front, as to other sites that could more fully inform us. I am truly willing to dig out the information for myself, if only I could learn where to find it. For instance, I recently subscribed to a wonderful blog and bought an ebook there, only to find most of the information rapidly sliding into obsoleteness, as I have always known most cg info does slide. My bad, but how and where do I get updated? GUIDANCE, PLEASE!
5. And if I really ought to go back to college, what topics should I seek in the course content, so I know that I will know what I need to know?
OR IF ANYONE OUT THERE COULD TAKE ME IN HAND AND HELP ME, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
Also, I could use tips about how to find more time for living what I am blogging about. Thanks!!!!!!!!!
I would like to be able to create photo galleries and slide shows from images already in the media library.
me too
I don’t think anyone has asked yet for this features and so here goes: I would like the ability to have subcategories for my links. For example, I have static links for favorite sites. Recently though, I wanted to add links for book tours but had to create a new links widget for each book tour instead of just adding to my initial links widget.
Beyond that (and those suggestions which I seconded) I’m happy with WordPress. It is a wonderful blogging platform.
MUST HAVE FEATURED: (SUPPORT tHIS)
1. Auto changer theme (up to 5 theme) and it can basis on time.
Example: In Winter I want to automatic oatumattic theme, In Summer code I want Matt
theme, In night time I want it to change to theme vampiro etc.
2. Auto layout for theme options. (auto stack and column based on number)
3. post/page background such like in header featured images.
Not really a feature for the site but a suggestion for this blog, more featured posts
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I agree with what others have already said; the ability to use different fonts, java scripts, multi language posting system, and the ability to play BACKGROUND MUSIC would be nice!
Thanks for asking. I love wordpress.com but, I would love to see…
1. A calendar feature so I could post events around the Delaware Valley. Add the ability for others to add an event – after approval of course. Google Docs is okay, but I would like an integrated one.
2. Customization, please. I hate to say it, but it was extremely hard leaving my beautiful, easy to customize Blogger blog, even for WordPress.com’s superior features. Why? Why can’t we customize our look and feel? Even Drupalgardens.com lets you customize. Could we please be able to customize like the framework and child themes available for WP? Or Blogger?
3.Widgets for book suggestions/reviews/what I’m reading now – LibraryThing, GoodsReads, Shelfari. And the ability to make the widget the whole page on a blog. I don’t want to crowd too many widgets on my sidebars and footers. It would be a colorful and exciting addition to the blog experience.
4.I would love to be able to add a weather or moon phase widget like I did with Blogger.
Thank you and have a nice day.
Thanks for asking. I love wordpress.com but, I would love to see…
1. Customization, please. I hate to say it, but it was extremely hard leaving my beautiful, easy to customize Blogger blog, even for WordPress.com’s superior features. Why? Why can’t we customize our look and feel? Even Drupalgardens.com lets you customize. Could we please be able to customize like the framework and child themes available for WP? Or Blogger?
2.Widgets for book suggestions/reviews/what I’m reading now – LibraryThing, GoodsReads, Shelfari. And the ability to embed the html code on a page or post. I don’t want to crowd too many widgets on my sidebars and footers. It would be a colorful and exciting addition to the blog experience.
3. Being able to embed a Keynote presentation, Pages or Numbers doc from Apple’s iWork.com.
Thank you very much and have a nice day.
Thanks for asking. I love wordpress.com but, I would love to see…
1. Customization, please. I hate to say it, but it was extremely hard leaving my beautiful, easy to customize Blogger blog, even for WordPress.com’s superior features. Why? Why can’t we customize our look and feel? Even Drupalgardens.com lets you customize. Could we please be able to customize like the framework and child themes available for WP? Or Blogger?
2.Widgets for book suggestions/reviews/what I’m reading now – LibraryThing, GoodsReads, Shelfari. And the ability to embed the html code on a page or post. I don’t want to crowd too many widgets on my sidebars and footers. It would be a colorful and exciting addition to the blog experience.
3. Being able to embed a Keynote presentation, Pages or Numbers doc from Apple’s iWork.com.
4. A bumping calendar feature in which I could embed/make a separate page, subscribe to multiple other organization’s calendar rss and show all the events on one calendar on my blog.
Thank you very much and have a nice day.
I’d like my commenters the ability to see a toolbar for their words – like Bold, Ital, etc. For now they must use or know HTML and it’s a nuisance.
I agree with others that some more flexibility on the themes would be helpful. Take for example your Theme Pilcrow. Good but I can’t stand the color light blue that is the sidebar, etc. And I don’t want to buy any CSS. I stay with the theme Vigilance because it hs the more theme options for my photography based blog.
I too, would like to be able to customize my favourite theme, TwentyEleven. Just tried out their new CustomDesign [you can preview for free]. I like everything about the theme except the black navbar, so I changed the colour of it. Looked really neat, but … neat for $30 a year?! Nah, I don’t think so… In that case I’d rather spend my money on self hosted.
Maybe it already does this and I’m too stupid to know how, but I wish we could insert pictures more than one at a time. I know we can upload more than one at a time, but we keep having to go back to the gallery to insert.
Another thing that I would like to see is more 3 column themes that allow for a *generous* middle column. Generous meaning: you can post photos, write a decent chunk of text, and NOT have a microscopic font size.
Right now Garland is the only theme that does all of those things well, and it would be nice to see a newer theme that allowed this option. There are hundreds of 2 column options, I don’t understand why we can’t have more 3 column themes. Something similar to Garland but a theme that offered more of the “new perks” that are available on newer themes.
I’d like the editing interface to be fully functional in Opera.
It would be a great feature if WordPress would let us edit our own comments on other folks blogs. I get so frustrated when I post and it looks like I never learned to spell or I misspoke and instead of doing a quick edit, I have to write another comment to explain the typos and what I meant to say.
If there was a window of time where we could edit our comments on other folks blogs, it sure would be a big help.
Posting photographs is often confusing and difficult for me. I once downloaded several photos that I intended to use in a post about mushrooms and the entire thing was lost. Also the positioning of a photo does not always come out right.
I really hope wordpress.com could support Gist, it’s very useful for putting code into the article and it’s much better than “sourcecode” shortcode.