. . . doesn’t mean you should. That along with its cousin, Beware the Law Of Unintended Consequences, have been riding me pretty hard the past couple of days. Building out the bones of Yaar-Jan’s page led me down the slippery slope of photo galleries, digging through years worth of photos, editing said photos, realizing that I really did not want to used the native gallery function and needed a gallery plugin, and looking at the photos I had already uploaded and saying, “well shoot, I really need to go back and do that right.”

As it turns out, the gee whiz factor of being able to upload straight from the phone without doing some sort of image optimization is not as cool as it initially sounds. I’m sure there are mobile apps out there for that, but since all of the photos on my phone are also on my computer and since I have Luminar Neo, it just makes more sense to actually take full control of those photos and their editing. I have replaced most of the “older” bloated photos with their correctly sized counterparts.

The upside is that my photo editing skills have taken a big bump in the right direction and the galleries using the Envira Gallery plugin are more than a few levels up from the native WordPress galleries. Maybe this old dog (really should use the correct gender noun here . . . and it ain’t “dog”) can learn new tricks! I’ll leave you with a very appropriate Maya Angelou quote.

“Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”

Maya Angelou