Your 'new blog' feature is very limited with its layouts and customization. It is certainly a downgrade from the old blog. Among many other limitations, the layouts cuts off the images. Previously, it adapted to the actual image size instead of giving prescribed frame. As well, my site (thisispublicparking.com) is a publication with collective focus and so the content is created my a number of different writers. Previously, in the old blog, I simply had to input the author's name as part of their respective post as I am the only admin person, now we have to go through this arduous process of inviting them to the system through email confirmation etc. even if they are just a one-time contributor. I'm also not getting the functionality to choose the font size, colour and type I want when I'm drafting a post like easily could previously. I know several others have sent complains about the old blog since it was made available yet it still presents problems. I still haven't made the full switch because it screws everything up. I know you guys aren't intending on supporting the old blog, so does this mean that it's going to keep crumbling with glitches till its completely unusable? I've been experiencing glitches with it that come and go over the last few months. The latest, which I don't know how to work around is the "< Next 1...3 4 5 Prev. >" feature at the bottom of the home page that allows you to go from page to page has magically gone missing and readers don't have a way to navigate through the blog. What are you guys going to do about any of this?? I've paid for a two-year premium account and I'm not getting my money's worth! It is getting very frustrating. This can not be happening.
Hi @publiclyparking,
thank you for posting your feedback for the new Wix Blog. Let me answer to your comments one by one:
Wix Blog offers several layouts to choose from. Certain layouts require certain resolution of images. Please follow this guidance for the image sizes to make sure your blog images display optimally: https://support.wix.com/en/article/recommended-image-sizes-for-the-new-wix-blog
authors indication as free text (as on old blog) - it's in our plans, it will be available in the new blog in the near future. You can vote for the feature here to get email notification when it's available: https://support.wix.com/en/article/request-allowing-guest-authors-in-the-new-wix-blog
font size, colour and type. Font type, size and control is controlled through the post page settings and set the font style as the 'template' for the post. However, then drafting the post user can change the colour of text, and it will be possible to change the font size.
pagination is available in the new blog, read here more how to toggle it on: https://www.wix-blog-community.com/blog/updates/introducing-page-numbers-for-your-blog-feed
We do not fix bugs of the old blog or add new features to it, we recommend all blog users to switch to the new blog using our posts transfer tool we built, which allows to automatically copy-paste the posts from the old blog to the new, keeping the posts links and SEO rankings. Read about the tool here: https://support.wix.com/en/article/switching-from-the-old-wix-blog-to-the-new-wix-blog
Let me know if you have more questions, happy to answer!