I got really annoyed last night as WordPress wasn’t behaving; it would not insert an image using the fancy schmancy image uploader. So I had David upgrade Image Manager, which is working again (but still has the annoying behavior it’s always had where the window has to be resized by hand).

And then today, there’s a new version of WordPress out, 2.5.1. Among security fixes, it also supposedly fixes the problem with the image uploader, and also adds to or upgrades the visual editor. So it’s time to test this with a few images from my cameraphone.  And blather.

First up, an image that I’ll upload with the fancy-schmancy image uploader, which uses the latest version of Flash/Shockwave to work, apparently…

When I arrived at church Sunday, there were rocks out in the front entrance. A few rocks in the gathering space. Rocks at the Mary shrine.

Next up, an image uploaded with the Image Manager plugin, invoked from the HTML view…

When I got in the sanctuary, there were rocks in the seats. Rocks in front of the organ. Rocks tucked in the corners of “choir jail” and under the kneeler bar.

And finally, uploaded using the newly-visible button for Image Manager on the Visual Editor view…

Rocks in front of the altar. We’d been warned in the e-bulletin to expect rocks by Fr. Steve.

It turns out there was a point to it all – the readings all had to do with rocks or stones, and Peter, the rock upon whom the whole church is built, figured prominently in the Gospel. Steve enlarged on his theme by lugging in several hundred pounds of glacial boulders, which used to make up the base of the altar at the old Holy Innocents building. They were selected by the men of the church 40 years ago up in Wisconsin and hauled down to Hoffman Estates as an act of faith. When we disassembled the altar, we transported them all to the new building with the intention of rebuilding the altar anew – this time, it’ll become an outdoor altar (the top is solid slate). Steve hopes that we’ll select the stones and help to place them (men and women this time) as it’s rebuilt. We’re looking forward to the time when we can be outside for services when the weather is good. There was an outdoor altar at St Columba, rarely used. We hope this one will get used often in the summer, when it’s too hot to be inside.

So okay, Fr. Steve doesn’t have rocks in his head.

As for the image uploads, for some reason all three were sideways at first, but after opening them in Photoshop, they were vertically aligned… but still sideways when selecting. So I had to go back to Photoshop, rotate them to the right, then back to the left, and then somehow they were magically aligned (I never figured out where in Photoshop you “file/save” now).

Aaarrrrrrgh, I don’t understand. Oh, well, it looks fine now!