{"id":10574,"date":"2022-06-04T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=10574"},"modified":"2022-06-04T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:35:53","slug":"updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I noticed that I haven’t updated my galleries for a while. So, I added two paintings that I finished last year. Here is one of them, Woman in Black-stripped Dress<\/em>: <\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Woman in Black-stripped Dress<\/em> is 40″ x 54.”<\/p>\n

While working on the gallery, I noticed that the gallery plug-in, NextGen, wasn’t working properly; the pagination is broken. I opened a ticket with the plug-in vendor.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>

When I started my blog 10 years ago(!), WordPress was an easy choice. If I was starting my blog today, I would use a static site generator like Hugo<\/a>. Static site generators give users more control than a CMS like WordPress. I would have complete control over the gallery and have no need to rely on a third party. To be fair, the gallery vendor, Imagely, has been responsive whenever I’ve had problems in the past.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I noticed that I haven’t updated my galleries for a while. So, I added two paintings that I finished last year. Here is one of them, Woman in Black-stripped Dress:  Read moreCleveland Museum of Art Opens RenovationsWoman in Black-stripped Dress is 40″ x 54.” While working on the gallery, I noticed that the gallery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":10550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":[170,346,6,24,19,160],"tags":[502],"class_list":["post-10574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers","category-main-street","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-thomasparkerhudson-com","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/black-stripe-little.jpg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10599,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/additional-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":10574,"position":0},"title":"Additional updates","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"June 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"As I wrote yesterday, I updated the gallery with two paintings that I finished last year. 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